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1874-5

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Feb. 16th 1875
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passed there anent: Whereas Joseph Francis
White and Charles McDowell, students,
have appeared before the Senate, on
a charge of misconducting themselves within
the College buildings on Tuesday last,
and it appears from their own confession
that instead of attending morning
prayers on that day or being on time
for their class at nine o'clock they were
drinking in the City Hotel and that
their unseemly behaviour in the forenoon
of that day can be accounted for only
by their being under the influence of intoxicating
liquor, and whereas such misconduct
is an offence which a due regard
for moral propriety and the ends of
good discipline requires to be severely
punished, and it is aggravated by the
fact that the Senate has had occasion
already during the present session to punish
the said students for misbehaviour
of a different kind, and individual members
of Senate have been constrained to reprimand
and caution them on account of
their negligence of study and with regard
to their general conduct: The sentence of
the Senate unanimously agreed to is as follows:

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sentence
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That Joseph Francis White and
Charles McDowell be and hereby are suspended
from the rank of undergraduates
of Queen's University - that this sentence of
suspension means that they are now in the
same position as if they had not passed
a matriculation examination, that they
have no right to wear the academic cos-