The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-05-23

stances under which Miss Green left this in
stiIution he made nuhlic.

stances under which Miss Green left this in
stitutlon, be made public:
7 The crime of which Miss Greene aclnowl-
edged herself guilty, and which caused her 10
Withdraw herself from this school, was not
known to any member of the Faculty till after
many otherwise connected with the school
were in full possession of the facts We know
that no father under similar circumstances,
was ever more deeply grieyed than the Presi-
dent, when he learned the painful truth He
at once sought an interview with Miss Green
ana endeayored in the kindest manner to as
certain what could be done in this matter SO
'inieting to herself and the school, In the
'ourse OF the conversations she asked if she
ou'u De expelled, to which the President re-
r., ''"e .he Faculty had taken no action up
SUBJECT She then remarked Il suppose
'Ao matter Is known to the students and beipo
soiu 'i'' IL would be difficult to keen the trntb
from lhe school, as many of those emnloved
about the college were already acouainted wiz,
the facts, she said, Il shall leave tba sohool %
The President, deeply affected, urged ber NO,
to act rashly, but whatever the past mioht bovs
been, to secure the future. She promised him
if she lett at all, she would go to her friends
The President advised her to see her sister and
let her make arrangements for going home, to
which she assented. After the Pre- sdent left.
she proceeded to her sisters room and wrote
her note, stating that she was 'gone." She
then took the morning stag for the depot, tell
ing her friends on the stage that she was going
to Lewiston and should return in the evening
train. The fact that she had left the Hill did not
hn a. Co.
When he learned the circumstances under
which she left, he suspected that she had other
intentions than OF returning to her friends,
and dispatched student to her father in Peru
to inform him of the facts and to advise him to
be in Lewiston before any morning train left.
he fearing that she would not 90 home as she
had promised. When she arrived in Lewiston
she wrote long and touching letter to her
class, acknowledged her guilt, and begged of
her classmates to forgive her, for said she "As
live, lnever touched cent of money that
was not my own except this once" She did
not in single passage of her letter, seek to
justify herself or blame the teachers. Near the
close of the letter she remarks, ''If this thing
had not been made public property and
common talk, may be there might have beena
future for me-" But who made this thing pub
lie property and common talk? Not the teach
ers, for they knew nothing of the matter till af-
ter many others were in full possession of the
circumstances. "a n .-.
These are the facts of that sad event which
has caused 50 much excitement in the public
mind. We have been induced to make them
public in justification of this school, and to re-
move the pre- judices of the people, caused by
the false representations which have found
their way into almost every household in the
| State. Further,
Resolved. That during the wears in which
many of us have been Intimately acquainted
with the President, never has a single act of
| unkindness been manifested toward any stu
| dents. We know that the student who has
| been the deepest in trouble or the most reck-
| less has ever been the object of his deepest
solicitude. We know that no words of ours
can express the debt of gratitude which we
owe him for the many timely admOnitions
| which have saved us from paths of error In
a word we feel the least we can say is, that
as man, friend, a teacher and noble
Christian example our President, Rev. III. p
| Torsey, has no superior -1Hli
Res0fUed. That copy of the proceedings OF
this meeting be sent to the principal papers
in the State for publication,
H.l ..T ,f A. j. BLETHEN,
| I.... MARGRETIA HANsCHILD,
"-' '-'- '' L. M. SMITH
HiA4 80 CD A. w. WATERHoUsE, ..J
! tld IS no.s..9 NELLIE WING, ID , s-..
| MARY DEERING,
| Committee.
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