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to the board as unfit
for the station he held, and proceeded
to inform him of it, and of the causes
of such a determination- that upon
apparently sincere conviction of the crimina
-lity of his conduct, on manifestations
of contrition and repntance, & most
solemn promises of reformation the faculty
concluded to make still further experi
= ment, and to avoid if possible so disa
= greeable a proceeding. The undersigned
have now to state that notwithstanding
all the promises of different conduct,
the only change has been
in said Holmes' acting on the same
system with a little more reserve, and
altho' the members of the faculty
evinced a desire of reposing confin
= dence in said Holmes they soon found
that it was no less readily betrayed, and
abused for the purposes of keeping up
somewhere a spirit of discontest. That
the undersigned therefore soon discovered
that they must depend on themselves for
all they were to expect is supporting the
order the reputation and the usefulness
of the institution entrusted to our care
That we have accordingly been obliged to act as