The Life and Work of George Boole by Desmond MacHale

Author:Desmond MacHale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vearsa
Published: 2014-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

… The Professor asserts that the statement that I received the Reports of, and consulted with and arranged for, the requirements of every Professor is untrue.

I have before me now the list of the College Professors, who are twenty in number. Of that twenty, I find that, during my stay in Cork, I had personal meetings on College business and consultations with sixteen, and made all the arrangements for them, in which my functions were concerned. Of the remaining four Professors, two did not come to the College personally, during my stay; but I had previously received from them their requisitions; I examined how far their wants had been supplied; I gave the proper instructions for having their wishes carried out, and even since that time I have been, in Dublin, occupied expediting the delivery of objects required for the lectures of one of those Professors. The third of the four was in the College only a few hours. He did not then call on me as his wants had been all supplied, and he was in constant communication with me otherwise.

The twentieth Professor is the gentleman who is understood to be the writer of the letter. I do not know whether he means to say that he did not see me in the College. But if so, it was on his part a voluntary blindness. I visited the Hall where he was examining. I spent some time observing the progress of the Examinations. I spoke to most of the Examiners, but, although I remained for a short time close to the Professor in question, I did not succeed in attracting his notice. But I made inquiries as to whether a requisition for books, and another for lecture-room fittings which he had sent to me, had been complied with. I found that his books had arrived, but that the fittings were incomplete and I arranged for having them supplied. I did not afterwards seek an interview with that Professor and he did not seek any communication with me.

It can now be judged how far the Professor is justified in describing my statement as untrue …

… The writer of the letter is acknowledged to be the Professor of Mathematics, Dr Boole, who is a near family connexion of the Vice-President, and is in the most intimate and continual intercourse with him. The Professor’s letter, while accusing me of tyranny, falsehood, and neglect of duty, is an elaborate eulogium on the Vice-President, whom he describes as ‘an honorable man and a most conscientious public servant’. This imprudent panegyric by the Professor upon his relative, the Vice-President, forces me to relate one or two facts to show whether Dr Ryall has acted as an honorable and conscientious man towards me …

… On Thursday, 3rd of March, the Vice-President gave orders to the Registrar, about one o’clock, to call a special meeting of Council for five o’clock, on that evening, to ‘consider the general administration of the College’. As another member of Council, besides

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