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House, breaking several panes of glass, and
greatly alarming members of his family who
were sitting in the room at the time.
And that which he would have been disposed
to pass over even this outrage, yet since it
was only one of a train of similar outrages,
he felt that the time was come for seeking
that protection to himself and family, which
the law provided. That previously however
to taking the necessary steps for that purpose,
he felt it his duty to lay the matter
before the Senatus Academicus, in the hope
that the Senatus might devise some course
to prevent matters arriving at that painful
crisis, which he could not but look upon
as likely to occur.

Professor Smith intimated that from information