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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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92 BEGINNINGS OF THE UNIVERSITY to measure their strength with the faculty. They found an excuse when in Gregory's absence the acting Regent instructed the Student choir to practice in hours sacred to study; and hauling the choir into court, summarily fined its members, and ordered them not to repeat the offense. The choir appealed to the faculty, and was supported by Gregory upon his return, receiving instructions to pay no attention to the Government. Hereupon the wrathful officers called a general student assembly, and carried through it resolutions threatening to disband the Government unless its action was sustained; and as the faculty refused this support, another assembly four days later announced that the Government was automatically at an end unless the Regent retired from his position. The whole was a piece of parliamentary fencing in which the students took a jesting delight, but it had features that were distinctly . alarming to Dr. Gregory. He was on the point of leaving for the East to deliver a lecture before some educational association on the merits and success of the College Government system, and he saw himself in a painfully false position. At once, therefore, he hadi another student assembly called, before which both himself and Judge Cunningham appeared, and at which the latter was asked to deliver a judicial opinion. He decide^ that the Government was in the right, the faculty paid the choir's fines, and Gregory departed eastward with an easy heart. The further history of the College Government was one chiefly of spirited elections and of wrangles over constitutional changes. The balloting for officers took place some ten days after the opening of school, and this brief period was filled with hurried electioneering and political maneuvering. For example, in the fall of
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