Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1880 — College Presidents and the Third Term. [ARTICLE]

College Presidents and the Third Term.

Three college Presidents— Seelye, of Amherst; Chadbourne, of Williams, and Copen, of Tufts, write to the Springfield Republican against a third term. Mr. Seelye says he would regard the election of a President for a third term as a “national calamity;” Mr. Chadbourne says the “time has not come for the people to oallfor a ‘strong man’ in any other sense than one strong enough to do the bidding of the public.” Mr. Copen. says a third term would be a “menace to our free institutions’’ as well as a “fatal blunder” for the Republican party. Ex-Gov. Washbnrne, Col. T. W. Higginson, and exCongressman H. L. Pierce express sentiments on the subject equally hostile. — Ne'o York Tribune.