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Your note of the 13th enclosing certain Resolutions, with
respect to the alledged failure of the Faculty to comply with the ordinances of
the
I am instructed to state in reply that while the Faculty entertain and suspicion,
that the
With respect to daily increasing disturbances among the students, I will content
myself with a reference to my letter of the 12th (the day previous to the
adoption of the Resolutions), as presenting a fair statement of what the Faculty
beleived then and beleive now to be the true condition of the
The only ordinances which can be supposed to apply to the course pursued by the Faculty with respect to the misconduct complained of, are the following.
"No student shall absent himself from the
"No student shall absent himself from the
"A student who shall reside within two miles of the
Our ordinary practice for the last two or three years has been to give no permission to any one to absent himself from scholastic duties, except upon a written petition, stating that he is authorized from home to make the application; the purpose for which he desires to leave; and the time that he expects to return. In all cases when circumstances seem to require it, the written petition is sent to the parent or guardian with the semi-sessional report on scholarship and deportment.
There was a circus at
That there has been gross misconduct of the part of the young men, in coming to
and returning from the institution, along the line of rail road, before the
beginning and after the close of the two last sessions, is beleived to be true.
The Faculty beleive moreover, that if the
The disorders of which the most numerous complaints have reached us occured at
The ordinances not only, do not give the Faculty any power over such cases, but
when Dr
I confess I have been surprized and have so intimated to several citizens of
Such things are not attempted here, and if they were, the police would suppress them very promptly.
The Faculty can but regret moreover that information communicated with respect to
these disturbances at
I need scarcely state in conclusion, that no one regrets the occurrences more sincerely than the Faculty, or will go farther than they in lawful efforts to prevent a repetition of them.