Hughes, Leander, fl. 1823-1824
Dear father. I have just heard the sentence of expulsion pronounced
against two of the students. viz
Augustus
Alston
and
Leonidas
King
; for having on last thursday night, committed violence upon upon
the persons, of some of the faculty viz.
Mr Betner
,
Mr Sanders
,—and it is said that
Mr Mitchel
, the now president
2
received several blows, both from
Alston
and
King
,
though he has [no] appearance of it now. These acts of violence were committed
in a time of intoxication. I did not see any of the engagements that took
place though one
was ensued in thirty
steps of my room between,
Alston
&
Mr Sanders
after which,
Alston
ran into my room and requested that I should give
him a knife (which I refused) as
Mr Mitchel
&
Sanders
had both been upon him.
Betner
is confined to his room; though not from the blows
he received but from spraining his
ancle by
some means in the contest.
A.
&
King
were
expelled at a meeting of the
trustees to day, and the sentence pronounced by
judge
Ruffin
.
3 There
have been three others dismissed this session.
4 I
received your'
s a few days since together with such clothes
as you mentioned. I negnected in my last to say any thing about my gloves. the
reason why they come
back was because
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I neglected to
take them out of the saddlebags with my other clothes, and am glad that they
are sent back again. I am well, & all of the students again or nearly so,
the deaths (as I before observed) that have occured here were caused by the
bilius fever and one by the nervous or Typhus fever.
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