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I have been desirous for several days to write you a short confidential note to
express my true satisfaction & even admiration of the tone &
dignity & temper exhibited in the Faculty's reply to the late
Resolutions of the m
Without any direct charge of delinquency there is a spirit of querulousness & insinuation of laxity in government in those resolutions that I did not like. The apparent rebuke is, to me, the more objectionable on account of its injustice & unmerited sting.
I had often said it & now repeat the solemn conviction founded on good
proof, that in the enforcement of the Laws of the College, firmly yet mildly, in
the able & parental & assiduous culture of the young men morally
& intellectually, a more devoted & faithful Body of men than the
Faculty of our diplomatic; worthy of
But I have said enough. I could say much more if my strength permitted. I am very weak, every way; greatly reduced in bulk.
This is strictly a private note to you who I know is my friend. Perhaps you had [best] burn it up after reading.
I do not know what has become of my poor Boy