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our sense of duty to the public impelled us to labor for the sub- 
version of thé recognised policy of our employers, and to defeat 
the re-election of an ex-officio member of the Board; and we 
should think it passing strange to be allowed to do so. The state- 
ments of the two reports from the House Committee equally and 
effectually dispose of the case of Mr. Blodgett, which has also 
bee ded as a grievance in the public prints. 
__ The testimony quoted, in the last paragraph but one, from Mr. 
Upham’s report, is a sufficient answer to the allegation and insin- 
uation of unworthy motives with which most of the articles in 
newspapers and magazines, assailing the Regents and the Secre- 
bu 
he latest sessions, without the Knowledge or consent of a majority of its members 
while some documents that were before the committee ‘are omitted t [May 10th.] 
