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so much evil to many a noble family, such 

 sorrow to parents, and such gross scandal 

 to the University. And the evil does not 

 rest here, but spreads its baneful influence 

 over other orders of this motley community. 

 Besides bill-discounters and money-lenders 

 at exorbitant interest, tailors have been 

 known to provide suit after suit jewellers, 

 watches and trinkets wine-merchants, wine 

 and spirits. These have passed untouched 

 into the hands of ready recipients, who 

 have promoted this wasteful expenditure 

 or, what is worse, they have been 

 given in lieu of money when all other re- 

 sources failed, to degraded beings, who 

 by the basest means pander to dissolute 

 passions. Others of the class have vied 

 in tempting their victims to excess, while 

 participating in the plunder, thereby 

 stamping a division of the town with 

 ruffianism, immorality, and vice, which 

 the fame of learning and religion cannot 

 qualify. 



