I was not aware of this document--to
which I should have been happy to add my signature--until last
night, when a copy of it was put into my hands, with an
additional list of signatures by more than a hundred local
residents. This morning I have had an opportunity to peruse
the answer sent by the Principal (Sir Elkin Travers) to the
Hon. Secretary of the Memorialists.
I cannot consider this answer satisfactory. Sir Elkin is
content to meet the allegation with a flat denial, and rejects
the reasonable request for a public inquiry in language none too
courteous. Unfortunately a body of testimony by residents in
the close vicinity of the College, as to the noises and outcries
heard proceeding from the laboratories from time to time, if not
in direct conflict with the denial, at least suggests that, with
the growing numbers of his professors and students, Sir Elkin
cannot know what is going on, at all times, in every department
of the Institution: while his peremptory rejection of an
investigation which he might have welcomed as an opportunity for
allaying public suspicion will be far from having that effect.
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