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2 THE UNIVERSITY BUMBLE-BEE. Bellona was the Goddess of War and hence that Bellona’s bridegroom was the god of war himself. Dr. Riley said ‘ ‘I do not recall that, ’ ’ but his opinion was overborne by the class and he was forced to confess his ignorance. The old Romans would deem it rare sport forsooth to hear that Mars had become a courtier in the Celtic Court. Ye gods, how the mighty have fallen! But Mars would have thought twice no doubt before thus debasing himself if he had known that Dr. Riley would pry into his personal affairs and thus inconsiderately expose him to the laughter of the world. We do not say that a professor should know everything, but he should know enough to hold his tongue when he knows nothing, or else have the manhood to acknowledge that he is ignorant and not make wild state- uents which expose him to the jeers of the class which he is trying to fool into the belief that he knows something about the subject under discussion. Dr. Riley’s ability as a critic is onfy_eqnalled_hy liis mastery of the art of paraphrasing at'sight. —-In- his attempts to read Milton and Shakespeare he loads himself up with the words and fires them out in a jerky fashion, two at a time, regardless of metre or scansion. As a critic he is sunk in the depths of his own learning and flounders along through the mire of his own verbosity, tripping himself by con tradictions too flagrant to challenge the comment of the class. As a lecturer Dr. Riley is with out a peer in the faculty, unless in deed his utterance be equalled by the silver tongue of the power behind the throne. This difference however is observed, no living man (and of the immortals only the spirits of the loomed would be forced to listen to iiim) can take down the polished words that flow so musically and rapidly from the hypocritical tongue of Dr. White, and hence his fluency is wasted on the desert air; but Dr. Riley, for fear a like fate should be his and some of the priceless gems of rhetoric which fall from his lips d>e lost to posterity (0 measureless woe), compels the students to hear ken to his words one by one and inscribe them upon tablets which, though yellow, are not yet gold. Dr. Riley’s justice however is beyond question, for no one doubts its partiality. When the English class was divided into two sections, one being under Professor Morris and one under Dr. Riley, the latter made up his final marks sometime before the former and gave them out to the class together with the mens’ relative standing. When Professor Morris made up his marks it was found that the two had different systems of marking whereby the men under Professor Morris had been graded higher than those under Dr. Riley. Now mark you! What did Dr. Riley do? He did that which he should have done before— he consulted with Professor Morris, and shoved up his own marks so as to equalize the standing of the two sections, thus attempting to right one wrong tar another. He did his own section In injustice when he marked them without having some under standing with Professor Morris, thereby making them liable to the misfortune which afterwards befell them and placing them at a dis advantage with the other section. He did the men under Professor Morris an injustice when he pla&sd ahead of them men in his own sec tion, thus depriving those under Pro fessor Morris of the relative standing to which their marks entitled them. But far worse than all this^Ae gave Mr. Joseph Brawn Qonnallv the ques tions on an explanation before the day appointed for ibnl examination. This is fact! Finally, Dr. Riley was untrqeyto his position as a professor at (he University of Georgia,which supplies him with his bread and meat and to which he owes his entire support, when he received from Mr. C. W. Hood of Hominy Grove the sum of one thousand dollars for Mercer College. No doubt he received this sum as a Baptist preacher and of course the gift was unsolicited, Mr. Hood being prompted purely by a large and generous heart, and per haps he had to beg our Professor of English to accept it, but the latter should not place himself in such a position that he will be forced to aid a rival college, if he is to retain his position as a Professor at the University. Hence we say that Dr. Riley is totally unfit for the position which he occupies. As a professor he is ludicrous; as a teacher he is in capable; and as a man he is unjust. He is a clog upon our progress. His presence casts a shadow upon the light of learning shed by the Uni versity, and in the name of the University we demand his removal. TO SHEF. To you this kind advice we bring, And hope good heed you’ll take: Drink more deeply of the Pierian Spring, And less of Silver Lake. HENRY CLAY WHITE. The University of Georgia pos sesses as a member of its faculty a brilliant character who can be most satisfactorily described, though smacking of slang, by the term slick. As an inducement to young students to come to Georgia, after the name of this character is advertised such regalia of distinctions as B. Sc., Ph. D., F. C. S., &c, &c., which regal procession is supplemented by a surname absolutely inappropriate except perhaps in respect of that segment of the great Pacificator’s character which showed itself as a politician. I refer to the astute Professor of Chemistry. As I have before said this gentleman can best be charac terized by the term “slick.” As a sharper no faculty, North or South, can furnish a rival, nor have they ever claimed such distinction. Now having given the Doctor full credit for all the distinctions which he so richly and signally deserves, I desire, with his consent, of course, through the friendly buzz of this untiring Bumble-Bee, to whisper into his ears a few suggestions, as a rep resentative of the students now under him and those gone out from the University. Now, Doctor, the first one is that you give up now your vaunting am bition to be Chancellor. While it may not be in the Power of the Alumni to force the blind man now occupying this position to see that they are clamoring for his resignation or removal, there is an army of those who know the wily deceits of your slick tongue and affable manners— you can never be Chancellor of the University of Georgia. Then, Doctor, why not be honest, truthful, sincere, in other words, why not be a man f Your friend, the Bumble-Bee and every alumnus of the University are willing to admit that you are a capable and competent Professor of Chemis try and that you are a man of brilliant attainments and much in tellectual strength. Every one of them believes that if you were not a wily Bayard but an honest, truthful man, you would make an honored and valuable citizen, and exercise a positive influence for good in the span of life still left for you. It is not at all necessary that I should call your attention to any single act of insincerity or dis honesty. You know, for instance, why a son of a political power in National Circles was given distinc tion when his mark was much lower than that of a dozen sons of poor farmers and merchants who were not given distinction. You know that you were the originator of the scheme for Seniors, known as the ‘ ‘Ten Lecture Course,” which lectures, from the fault of the faculty, were not delivered at all like the catalogue prescribed; that when, on this account, the class petitioned the faculty to make the lectures elective, you were the Chair man of the Committee to which the matter was referred and the petition was refused without a single reason being given to the class; you know that at the suggestion and by the advice of the Chancellor, given to its committee, the class then pre sented a petition to the faculty promising that, if it be excused from final examinations on such lectures, it would give the same attendance and attention to the lec tures, as to the other recitations and that, you being Chairman of the Committee to which this second petition was referred, it also was refused, as was the first petition, without a single reason being given to the class; you know that the class, receiving such treatment at the hands of the faculty whom it had always sustained in every order and in every request, then demanded its rights according to the terms of the Catalogue, when you decended from year stand and, in the midst of the boys, tried by means of your superior position and persuasive deceptions to bushwhack them from their position; you know that you there told|them that you knew nothing of the second petition and, though you were the Chairman of the Committee which recommended the rejection of both petitions, the politician that you are, in face of the sixty-five men of the class, who are soon to become men of influence in the state, promised to represent them before the faculty in ivhatever request they might see fit to make. Such is the Doctor’s character and such everyone knows him to be. Now, in conclusion does it not appear that ’twould be best for you to give up your ostrich-like deceptions and be honest and truthful? Your course has hitherto failed to gain for you the wonted goal and the Bumble- Bee here and now assures you that that same course will never obtain it for you. So be a man, face the students and your colleagues as a man, treat those who have dealings with you as a man would treat them and the ’97 Bumble-Bee promises you that the Edition of 1901, wnl join the students and alumni in es teeming you an instructor, a scien tist, a man, of whom Georgia and Georgia’s University should be proud.