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[page 823] rank which was very low indeed. I might have taken another copy from the record. Ques. He says he left college on account of ill health. Do you know anything to contradict it. Ans. I do not know. Ques. He is now in your college. Ans. He was allowed to come back. Ques. If he had done anything disgraceful you would not have taken him back. Ans. We have done such things. He had assurance from his friends in Augusta that he had reformed, that he was an entirely different man in character, and we always act when the principle of the utmost leniency towards a student. Ques. Do you know that three days after that vote was passed, the president sent him words that he could return. Ans. I do not, do not know what passed between him and the president. By Mr. Butler. Ques. Does it not often happen that a young man in the freshman and sophomore class are headless, thoughtless, careless, wild, and uncomfortable to have round, and yet subsequently prove themselves to be men of unimpeachable veracity and great attainments. Ans. I presume so.