Prof. Adams

The Aun Arbor Courier, Mr. l!e;il 's papar. dismiss. ¦! the toet of Prof. Watson's dea tb and bnrlul wiili an Jgbt-Uae paragreph, Evenlng News. The News does us njustice, ;is it wil! sec by this week's C'oi'kikr. The last issue of the COURIBB went to press beforc tlio l'uneral services of l'rof. AVatson took place, consoqueDtly weeould not xpeak oftlie imposing ceremonies of' the ooouion. It was our intentiun to write out at le;ijt a l'ull synopsis ui ;iil tliu speeches upon the occasion, but after M4Dg the follow ing remaiks made by Piot. Adams, we had no desire to infliit mora apon oar readers. Prof. Adams Sftid : "Isha'.l ncvcr iorget 1l1.it tonveiMtlon JlMI lefore he aooevted toe lamptlng oítere at WlsOODilD in wlilih lie revealoil to me the sc.ivt of )i Is rieslres. 'All my attaobmenta,' sald be, 'are here; all my life work has hí'eii done luit. sholtUl be (jliiil lf rennin tuut hare to ' rertittj what tortvne I liave been able !¦ mulalt. I have noanxlcty for addltlonal Ui' jiry. ai my tucome froin private sónicos is nou ¦ufflclent; tmt I ser in) réaaon t' hope that If I ri'iiuiin here, I rIiiiII ver have B teleaoope wltii whloh I run aooomplich wbat I deatre.1 11 raf for these reanons Uiat a sister state, rieher In generoBlty of private banevolenoe, was abla t" take bim from at." In Woning he relerred to Trof Watson'K remliuess to enoonragfl Rtrng Hllng Btndeiitnaud the reTaraBI spuit whlch pervndeil all his wurk. All the citizens of our city and all 1 lust uden ts who knew hiin will arce :i to l'rof. Watson's reverence, piety and bencvolencc, aud so of eourso it is useless tor ns to eulogize in this respect. And all of bis rirtn and devoted friends, whobelieved him to have been a man of truth and veracity can come to but one conclusión on reading the above, and that is that Prof. Adams told a delibérate falsehood when he said what he did iibout Prof. Watson's Icaving the property he had accumulated to this university, for at the very time he says that conversation took place Prof. Watson's will, giving ncarly all of his property to the National Academy of Sciences at Washington, D. C, was ou file at tbc probate office in this city. And the said will was placed there in 1874, long before the Douglass defalcation had been discovered, or there had been any controversy about univeraity affairs. 1 lonest men aud women all over the state iil conider our eightline notice much more appropriate than such ruisrepresentation.