Democratic Governor Jonathan M. Davis of Kansas (now retired—see Page 6), through the State Board of Administration, ousted Dr. Ernest Hiram Lindley, Chancellor of the University of Kansas, on Dec. 27. A verbal civil war followed.
Governor Davis charged the Chancellor with "incompetency, insubordination, procrastination, political activity and aloofness from the people and the student body." He averred that the learned Doctor had spent more money than the University statutes permitted and that it had been necessary to discharge him "in order to demonstrate that the state ran the University and...
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