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Some little disposition to annoy the Faculty by missiles of different kinds has been exhibited within the last year or two. I do not recollect particulars and perhaps over-rate the amount of what actually occurred, but whatever it was our general forbearance rather encouraged those concerned with the hope of impunity. There was a good deal of throwing though apparently with a view of intimidating rather than doing injury when we interfered with the ugly club in July last.
Three weeks ago, there was an affair in which
This affair having gone off so well gave additional spirit to
those of the next Saturday night. A freshman treat was had after dark in the
woods at the Foxhole (not Fauxhall as they tell me) spring from which the
company came up hallooing and shouting. The Faculty went round to the rooms to
see who was absent, and it not appearing to be of much use to stay longer went
home. Some stones and brick bats were thrown before they retired. Afterwards
the belfry havingpersuading them to
desist. I had plenty of brick bats thrown at me, masses weighing from one to
two pounds thrown with a hearty good will and flying on all sides of me. The
Faculty afterwards went through the buildings between the hours of two and
three in the morning with the view of detecting some of the authors of these
disorders who had taken our horses out of the stables and were riding them
about the campus, but in consequence of some delay in our movements nothing
important was accomplished. I have spoken of what I myself saw because I do not
know exactly what befell the other members of the Faculty.
What is to be done? I answer, tis a great pity that we could not have you here on the spur of the occasions. The parties concerned and engaged, finding your visit have been strengthening each others hearts so that I am not certain you will accomplish much now. But without presuming to dictate I will respectfully state what my views are. Unless you come here prepared to call a tet-e-tet, and state distinctly and unequivocally that this raising a row and then throwing stones under cover of the darkness at those whose duty it is to interfere is mean and cowardly, your visit will do more harm than good.
Secondly the Faculty are I suppose entitled to that protection
when engaged in the discharge of their appropriate duties which the laws of the
land are held to afford to the meanest citizen. The ordinances of
Thirdly it is perhaps of more importance still, that you should
give no credit to a great variety of stories that are circulated from this
place. It is incredible; the number of them that go abroad which are totally
unfounded and untrue. Some are uttered in jest in the first instance and
believed by the second or third person that hears them, others are malicious
falsehoods. Take for instance a few with regard to myself. That on the night of
If the night when you shall be here shall be a bright star light,
I should be glad to have you stand at the door of the south entry of
P.S. After the statement of the physical impossibility of seeing