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ciency in teaching or for the exhibition of grave defects of character. 

 In each case there was substantial unanimity on the part of trustees 

 and faculty. Two of the seventeen have retired on their pensions. One 

 withdrew on account of a breakdown in his health, eleven resigned, to 

 our great regret, to accept considerably more lucrative positions else- 

 where. We rejoiced in this evidence of their distinction and tried to 

 fill their places with men equally good. Some of these we shall prob- 

 ably lose by and by in the same way. 



On the whole, isn't this a pretty good small college? There have 

 been evidences of weakness in discipline in years past, due in each case 

 to the mistaken leniency of the faculty. This has never been due to 

 outside pressure. One can't help wondering whether this small college 

 which was discussed last May is not suffering more from morbid 

 and unfounded fears on the part of the professors than from any real 

 danger of autocratic action by president or trustees. 



