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industriously circulated ever where and par
= ticularly among the students on whom it was
to act. We might have enumerate facts
which would become tedious both on account
of their nature & the time they would take
up. This therefore we shall forbear to do;
pledging ourselves that they shall be produced
in sufficient numbers should occasion ever
require it.

(one general statement for the sake of illustrating the
general nature of them. Nothing was more common
The faculty was in meeting then for
the undersigned professor of mathematics to meet
with. It is confirmed by
a [crowd?] of testimony that said Holmes spared
no pains to affirm every where to students
of the university as well as to strangers that
said undersigned professor was
perpetually aimng at tyrannical and unjust
measures against the rights that students
must always claim and defend in the face
of any authority, that were it not for said
Holmes the business of the place must be
totally neglected; that indolencec & ignorance
were the true characters of said professor
and that it was a notorious act of injustice
int he board to place a man over his head as