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In considering the Ross Case we may ask three questions:

1. What were the official acts involved?
2. What were the reasons for these acts?
3. With whom does the responsibility for them rest?

1. The official acts. a. Dr. Edward A. Ross was on February 6, 1893, appointed Professor of "Administration and Finance" in the Leland Stanford Junior University. The letter of appointment (Exhibit "A"), giving his title, salary and conditions of work will be found in the Appendix to the statement. This appointment like all regular appointments in the Faculty of the University at that time was made by the President and was understood to be for an indeterminate period, depending upon good behavior or mutual satisfaction.

b. In October, 1896, Dr. Ross was for cause removed by the President from his original chair, then known by the title of "Economic Theory and Finance". A temporary chair of "Sociology" was created to which Dr. Ross was transferred. The details of this arrangement were made by personal conference and by mutual consent no charges were formulated or public action taken in the matter.

c. Dr. Ross's change of status was made a matter of official record by a formal notice of appointment, "for one year", continuing the temporary arrangement already in force for the academic year 1897-98 (Exhibit "B"). This notice of appointment, dated March 25, 1897, was under discussion between the President and Dr. Ross for some days and was finally