The spectacular feature of the Tsinghua case is that a large body of students in residence, believing that the Nationalist Government has "taken over" the college and that their actions therefore need not be restrained by considerations of common decency, have not only registered a demand that a certain Mr, Lo Chia-luan, supposedly sympathetic with their desires, be nade their president, (his "in stallation was reported in yes terday's paper-—Ed.) but for-elbly expelled five members of the faculty from the school after putting them under duress and extracting their resignations from them. The less spectacular Dut more important feature of the case is that the student body is in open rebellion against certain new regulations passed by the board of directors of the college just before the Nationalist occupation of Po King, which regulations were strongly endorsed by the college Alumni Association and had the approval of the local American community, official and unofficial.
The students are of course cartying on a lively agitation insisting that theirs is a reform campaign and that the five professors whom they caught in their beds on the lit of September 3 and forced to sign their resignations, were not only reactionaries who have sympathy with the "Three Prineipes" but stood obstinately in the way of "reform." 'They have vociferously denied the statement carried by the Kuo Wen News 'Agency that their major grievance was the directors' decision to send more graduating classes yot this decision does.
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