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th of August 1856 is made.
On the above name night I went to bed a little before 10 o clock;
had been in bed, perhaps an hour when the students commenced throwing fire
balls in the campus, as they had done a few nights before; got up and went to
the window; had not been there long before they scattered off towards the
buildings on account of a signal's being given, as I thought, of the approach
of some of the Faculty. On their reassembling again near the belfry some of
them said in a tone of voice not at all calculated to alarm any one
My room is on the 3rd passage of the