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1798
Mr President and gentlemen of the board
of Trustees
However painful it is to address
you on a subject like that we now desire to
lay before you, our duty to
the university, to ourselves, and to
the community require that we no longer
remain silent. It was our purpose, the last year,
to have presented to you a person belonging
to the Fauclty as not fitted for the duties
assigned to him in that character, had
not circumstances occurred that led us to
hope that he would no longer perservere in a
line of conduct he had invariably pursued since
his introduction at this place. The person
we have in view is Mr Samuel Holmes.
Unhappily in these hopes we have been dis
appointed, and we now wish to inform you
that it is our opinion built upon
some considerable experience that the university will
materially suffer in its interest so long as he
shall continue at this place.
Our resons for this opinion we will [??]
to state, and we hope that you will find
them such as to leave no room for a trouble
some doubt.