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1Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes (1887) September 11, 1887  
 Published:  1887 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia::Board of Visitors | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The Board met pursuant to adjournment on the 30th of June last. "You will have seen from my letter addressed to you and the Board on July 2d how gratefully I appreciate the considerate courtesy with which you have been pleased to treat me at your last meeting. A trifling accident, however, has since led me to ask an additional favor at your hands, which I am sure your keen sense of justice will not deny me. It is this: In the first copy of the resolutions concerning me, the Secretary had said. `Your testimonials have removed'. Subsequently a change was made, so as to make the line read: `have largely removed,' implying that the impression of inefficiency on your minds was to a certain degree, still resting there. This is very grievous to me. I had surely thought that the testimonials I had laid before you would entirely remove any such impression. As this has unfortunately not been done, I think you will not blame me if I most respectfully request to be informed of the charges brought against me, and of the persons by whom they are brought forward. `Audiatur et altera pars' is a rule which seems to apply to this case also. I have so far abstained from asking any questions, although this reduced me to act in the dark, and defend myself against unknown adversaries. But now, I am naturally, and I hope excusably, anxious to remove those painful impressions entirely, and to prove myself not unworthy in any way or degree of the generosity of the Board. I have the honor to be
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