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surprise when | learned that the whole transaction
was a mystery TO him as well as TO myself. He said
mat ne noticed, when on the stage, that my name
was not on the order of exercises, and wrote a note
TO ttof SHEDD, telling him that there must be some
mistake in the printing. | then told him the reason
assigned by Prof. ToRREY for its not being there
lie said this was strange, for Theological subjects
DercJnst phat tpdS desired, provided that they were
not treated in an offensive way and that even in
the treatment far wider latitude was given to such as
mad graduated than TO those immedia tely under the
eye of the Faculty. / then told him my subject,
and he remarked that he could have no possible OBJ
lection to it, but rather thought it appropriate and
one that would he very interesting to II the audience, in
asnuch ms those to whom a Masters Grafton would
naturally be directed were mostly clergymen. The
only ground upon which he could have possibly OBJ.
Jected to it, he remarked, would have been the ma
ture OF its treatment. On leaving Pres. SMITH, |
visited Prot. PEAsE, at which time he made the re-
mark which | have already quoted above, saying at
the same time that the fact of its being theological
could not possibly be the ground on which my ora
ton was REJECTED. These are the facts. Mr.. Editor.
as II arIy as can bring them 10 my mind, and in the
midst OF the strange contradictions and inconsistent
cies OF the Faculty themselves, which these facts re-
veal, one must have a clearer brain tllHn my own to
reach the real ground OF my being excluded from
speaking. ] believe, as Prot. ToRREy himself told
me, that he considercd that | had innocently erred
in my selection Of a subject, and rather than let me
dlsappoint the audience, whose criticism he Seemed
to toreknow, and thereby injure myself, he took tins
occasion for offering me friendly aid For this in.
terest | thank him kindly, but shall by no means
take il ne "a ,roro1,uf and I.o,,. II .. l-1--.-I
studies, through fear that he may think | shall dis
appoint the world by doing so, and thereby injure
my own cha racter.
-FOUR obcdient servant,
ELNATIAN UlGBEE.
I. S.-Since penning the above, | have received
your paper dated August eth, and continuing n LET
ter from an individual signing himself "RCs." He
will discover, on perusing my letter, that the faculty,
through Pres. SMITH, do not claim the riph, which
he speaks OF, and that they, through Prot. PEAsr, o.
fer a case precisely to the point, tf that Of the Rev.
Mr.. Yale is not So and also that through President
SMITH, they disclaim any regulation, direct or indi- |
rect. by which purely theological subjects are relec.
"RUs' will also discover, | think, that the fac
themselves did not exercise the right claimed,
but only ono OF them. For | was invited by a unan-
llnous vote OF the faculty, and vetoed by only tiro, at
least, without the knowledge OF any of the others.
until 1t was too late. These two resolve themselves
INTO one, when the transaction is properly reviewed
and who this one is, the prompt reply to your first
article, MIR. Editor, will aid to point out. In con-
Gliding this Postscript, | would ask Rus why
Prot. ToRREY, or any one else, would wish an ora
ton to be examined for acceptance, as an Grafton to
be spoken, already knowing the subject, and after
wards REJECT 1t trithout reading? And | would ask
why Prot. ToRRrY trusted and hoped that | might
speak, after knowing the nature OF my subject and
rejected it, on the ground OF that nature
ii there were no other ground still further back !
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