Untitled Page 1

The questions herein are apparently inaccurate.

Tentative draft of statement of facts in the Ross Case with copies of
documents, to be addressed to President of Board of Trustees of University,
to be held subject to further consideration by the President on his
return from Alaska.

------------------

After ten years the surviving Founder of the University has suc-
ceeded in turning over the guardianship of her trust safely and legally
to the Board of University trustees. Every difficulty in the way of the
institution has been removed, every serious purpose of its founders
justified. The only cloud which remains over it is the prejudice ex-
isting in certain quarters aroused by the alleged connection of the
surviving Founder with the removal of Dr. Ross and hence of the University
with the question of academic freedom.

Now that the Board of Trustees is in control I am free to say a
plain word about this matter which I could not, in part at least, have
discussed with propriety while the Founder retained the relation of sole
Trustee [handwritten insert Re: Trustee] I was not Trustee but sole Founder. I therefore place in your hands this account of the Ross Case
from the point of view of the President, appending the documents on file
in the archives of the University bearing upon it, leaving the record in
your hands for preservation or to be used at your discretion.

------------------