UNIVERSITY COUNCIL ELECTION.

Evening Star, Issue 14117, 21 July 1909, Page 4

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL ELECTION.

TO Till: EUITOII. Sir,—Without, reference to the opinion of the fatuity of medicine, Dr Batchelor asked the University Council to split his chair into two—(1) midwiierv, (2) gynaecology. I :,bk Dr Batchelor* whether, if elected to tho Council, he will, in 'the event of hie eon applying for one of these poets, leave the meeting during the election. As regards the chair of midwifery, I have made public statements which prove that Dr Batchelor has destined his friend the tutor .n obstetrics for that chair. 1 ask Dr Batchelor did he mention the name of the present tutor in obstetrics to the University Council? A letter in vour columns from the chairman of the Charitable Aid Board, so far as it went, confirmed the statements I had made. Now, 1 can assert, from undisputed public statements, that Dr Batchelor lias during the last, two years persistently endeavored to create and fill without advertisement the post of tutor in obstetrics. At the same time, Dr Batchelor professed to his medical brethren and to others a desire to see the post advertised. It i,s obvious that tho holding of this post affords the semblance of an excuse why the holder should be successful in such competition for the chair as Dr Batchelor may bo unable to prevent. In lxjply to this direct charge, and, indeed, proof, of insincerity, and in reply to the various statements which have been publicly made by others and left unanswered, Las Dr Batchelor no more to give us than a dissertation on a university, and a veiled statement to this effect: Certain envious people are alvus-in;: one who is in reality a very tine fellow, and the only medical man in Dnncdin whose opinion is worth a straw? He would ask us to believe that he is essentially the oritrinator of practically all advances in the Medical School. One word more. It has not been suggested that Dr Batchelor took into consideration the 'social position" of candidates, but I do allege that he is powerfully influenced in his recommendations by his own particular social and personal' relations.—lVmi, etc., Stuart Moore. July 21.