Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-04-18
From the n. 2. Com. .qdD. april IL.
TO THE PUBLIC.

The Board Of Trustees of the Col.
lege Of New Jersey, assembled for
the first time since the riOtous pro.
ccedings in the institution commit
ed TO their care, in January last;
deem it solemn duty. to commune
cate to tho public their views of
those unhappy and criminal proceed
ings'
At an early period of their session
they appointed a committee TO exa-
mine with care into the causes Of
the riots, and TO collect and present
to the board such information rela-
tive 10 this subject, as might con.
duce 70 clear understanding Of its
real character. The, committee,
after particular aud impartial in.
vestisation, as far as was practical
BILE, and of the whole affair, Ian in
,vestigation in the course of which
they had interviews with number
iof the most respectable students of
the college, as we'll as with the mem
bers of the faculty and others, pre-
scented a report, from which the
board feel it their duty to state, that
the faculty of the college have reeeiY-
ed their appreciation for the Gdelity
and frmness which they displayed
on that trying and painful occasion.
No alternative was left for them, but
either to abandon their posts, or, to
|inflict The merited sentence Of dismis.
sion on the offending students; their
proceedings, therefore. and also those
Of a competent number oft trustees
convened for tina, purpose, in ex-
pclling such of the dismissed students
as returned to the college grounds
contrary to order, have received the
sanction Of this board.
The Board wish the public dis
tiuctly 10 understand, that the civil
process which was commenced q.
gainst q number of the offending
students, who had not only violated
the orders, and iasulted The autho-
ty, but also injured the property of
the college to large amount, was
commenced by the faculty, not on
their own Judgment and responsible
biiity alone but with the concur
renee and by the advice Of a com-
uittee OF The Board appointed for
that purpose ; and also that the mea-
sureehas received the sanction Of the
Board.
The Board, moreover, are con-
strained by a sense Of duty both 10
the college aud to The public, to, de-
clare their entire ard unanimous
conviction, that the csD,iuct of the
dlserderIy students, in the late III
OTIS, and especially Of those who were
expelled, was utterly unsupported
by any just plea, or even plausible
pretenee that il was marked with
the most Incorporate yiolence-ihc
most fragrant indeceney-the srcss-
est profsBencss. And they cannot but
deplose the bumi!iating fact. that
so many young men oil respectable
families, and Of high promise, should
have degraded themselves so far as
Justly TO incur this unqualified con.
defamation. The Board have only'
to add an expression Of their conf
dent hope, that virtuous public will
unite with them. in approving the
conduct of the faculty, and in repro.
batting course ofprOceedings, so ut.
terly subversive Of all those princi.
lpIes on which alone decorum and
order can be maintained in semi
nary Of learning,
Signed by the unanimous vote Of
Trustees.
ISAAC III. WILLIAMSON.
Governor of the state OF y. Jersey,
and President ex-ohScig OF the
Board of Trustees.
Princeton, N. j. .9pril 10, 1877
Eatract Of a letter, dated Princeton
.fpriI II. 1917.
The degree orDr. OF Divinity was
yesterday conferred on the Rev.
Robert Finley, President elect OF the
University Of Georgia, by unani
nous vote OF the trustees OF the col
llege of N. J. convened in this place
! Highly important Lac Crse.
Don Joseph Alueida vas lately ar