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" I said, 'Mr Noel, ou are impertinent. I do not
want your talk'. 'Nor yours' replied Mr. Noel.
"I have to request the Senate to consider this matter
and to take suitable action thereon.
"Respectfully submitted
"(Signed) Robert Bell"

"Queen's College, Kingston
23d Feb. 1866"

The complaint having been considered; the Registrar
was instructed to cite Mr Noel to appear before the
Senate to answer the above complaint on Wednesday,
the 28th inst. at two o'clock P.M.

The Senate then adjourned till that date.

W. Snodgrass, Principal

Queen's University, 28th Feb. 1866

This day the Senate met according to adjournment
and was constituted. Present the Principal in the Chair,
Professors Williamson, Mowat, Litchfield, Fowler, Bell,
Maclean, Murray, Horatio Yates and Octavius Yates.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read.

[margin]
Reply of
Mr Noel
to the complaint
of
Professor Bell
[/margin]

Mr John V. Noel, having been called to answer the
complaint of Professor Bell and offered the alternative of
giving in a written answer, declared that he was perfectly satisfied
with answering orally. He says that he could with a clear
conscience deny the charges and have it to be proven, but
considers it a more honourable and straightforward course
to make his own statement of what took place, which was as
follows:

"On the morning referred to in the complaint while the class
was in Session, I was in my usual seat. There was some disturbance
and the word "shoulder" was given. I heard Professor
Bell make some remark to the class. Similar remarks
were not unusual. Some minutes afterwards I heard the
word "shoulder" called by some one in the immediate
neighbourhood. Still reading my manual on Chemistry
I almost mechanically obeyed the signal and put my
right hand on my left shoulder without noise and without
taking my eyes from my book. Professor Bell again stopped
his lecture and called the class to witness that Mr. -

J. Clark Murray, Secretary