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it, and the knowledo;e that the Town Council had refused to acknow¬ 
ledge him. 1 told Mr. M‘Bride privately, that if it had been me, I 
would have consulted mv own dignitv and retired. Manv of the 
junior students told me that they would not come back to the col¬ 
lege if he was retained. At a meeting of the college we came to the 
conclusion to send a letter to Mr. M‘Bride and the Highland 
Society. I think the disturbances in Dr. Young’s class are not 
directed against the teacher, but merely fun amongst the students. 
I was perfectly aware that he M^ould be discharged. There was a 
great row during Mr. M‘Bride’s last lecture. I was from home, 
and when I came home I found the room in a state of shipwreck. 
I never instigated or encouraged these disturbances; on the con¬ 
trary, I did my best to put them down. I heard the evidence yes¬ 
terday of the girl who had been my servant, and there is no truth 
whatever in these statements, except that I had two parties. I 
had a party with the students on my birthday, and one other. On 
one or two occasions, when students had been out with me at night 
seeing cases, I might ask them to have some refreshment with me, 
but they never sat down with me to smoke. That might be on one 
or two occasions. There is no truth in the statement made by the 
girl about students being with me every night. I do not think that 
between April and October Mr. Cates was in my house. I never 
allowed any students to miscall Mr. M‘Bride. That I did so is an 
absolute falsehood. I never asked the students to sign the petition 
against Mr, M‘Bride. I never heard the girl’s story till yes¬ 
terday. Dr. Dalzell never sat with a student in my house in 
his life. (Applause.) It is an absolute falsehood on the part of 
the girl. 
By the Solicitor-General—I never knew anything of the petition 
until it was presented to me. It did not lie in the office for signature 
at any time. It was said that Mr. M‘Bride was keeping Mr. Fordie, 
and that he was to share the profits of a grinding class which he 
was preparing to get up. He had introduced Mr. Fordie to the stu¬ 
dents. It is a proper thing for the students to employ a grinder. 
I told Mr. M‘Bride that there was no impropriety in grinding, but 
that he must have nothing to do with Mr. Fordie. I can’t say 
whether Mr. Fordie was living with Mr. McBride. Although I had 
been told by Mr. M‘Bride that he was not sharing the grinder’s 
fees, I was still under the impression that he was. The students, 
so far as I was concerned, behaved admirably. If he did not 
resign, it was my desire that he should be dismissed. There were 
some of the students behaving well, but the majority were behaving 
ill. I think the class was equally divided between the noisy and 
the well behaved. Upon the two occasions on which I visited the 
class-room, I could not name the parties who were creating the dis¬ 
turbance, I had no power to punish the students. We did not 
fine any. Acting upon the advice of the law agent, we did not 
punish by fine the eight or nine students whose names w'ere given 
by Mr. M‘13ride. I do not think there w'as anything to justify the 
conduct of the students. I blame Mr. M‘Bride for not bringing 
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