PROFESSOR'S RESIGNATION

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 8 June 1925, Page 2

PROFESSOR'S RESIGNATION

COMPLAINTS OF ATTACKS. Professor Coleman Philhpson, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Adelaide Univcrsitv, discussing the reasons of bis resignation recently, said that he intimated to the Council that certain attacks made upon him caused his chief. wish to tender his resignation. lie wished to return t 0 England, to continue rcser.rch work and complete the material fori two books. He was also anxious to resume practice at the Bai. He had come to Adelaide on the understandinr' that he would be admitted to the South Australian Bar; but as th« University Council objected, he bad given way. . , ■» The professor said that the crux d the whole matter was his willingness to give private tuition to one or two backward students, ..to which the Council objected. There wae i.otbing dishonourable in it, but there *«s always some one ready to place the worst construction on tilings, lie -wished no one ill, not even the person who had pinned on his dcor a note. "Coleman Phillip- '■ son, blackmailer.' Got out, you swine"; or the person who said be "wondered I. did not snatch his wife s b 9S" ■ ■ ■ ■ -