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It is a difficult matter at all times to command the attention and respect of a large class of College Students; but when the discipline is lax, and impunity an occurrence of every day life, the task of the instructor becomes altogether impossible. If to his manifold tribulations, we add a disposition on the part of his colleagues to drive him to a resignation, or if such a belief is current among the students, a due sense of self-respect makes it incumbent on him to apply for redress to those to whom the individual welfare of the members of the Faculty is entrusted.
Without referring to the difficulties which of late have been a cause of great annoyance and mortification to me, I shall limit myself to the case which today, and for the last time, brings me before you.
"I have been told by I therefore retract."th of October last, summoned him to appear
Strange as it may appear to those who are not familiar with the proceedings of this
Faculty, such a letter was accepted.
A few weeks afterwards,
He kept on! The whole section became very difficult to manage; several members of the
same class had to be admonished for disobedience to me, but finding that I could no longer
command the respect of the students if
No notice was taken of the determination of the 13th of November, although it was of record and stood unrepealed.
"A motion was made to dismiss him," says the journal, "in
consideration of his repeated offences of this description," and it was laid on
the table
With due respect, I ask whether this was not carrying forbearance to the extreme, and if
perchance I submitted once more to such a course, I had not the right to expect that
To-day, when called to recite, he replies in a very impertinent manner, refuses to
comply, and by mimicking my imperfect pronunciation of English, throws the whole class
into a violent and protracted fit of laughter. In accordance with the regulations of the
Six members of the Faculty voted that
In the hope and sincere belief that justice will be done to me, I appeal to your well-known impartiality.