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The Sally Hemings
Vol 4, No 1

TO THE PRESIDENT:

Dear Edgar:

It is the desire of your Board of Visitors that you be commended for the meritorious manner in which you have handled your recent student troubles. We are again impressed by the subtle and perceptive way in which you have managed to guide student protest toward the best interests of the University, not to mention the students, themselves.

As you know, the recent student disorders could have taken an ugly turn. We call to your attention, for example, the periodic unreasonable student demands for increased admission of negroes, young ladies, and lesser qualified white citizens. In the past, students seemed to be ignorant of the fact that there are already numerous educational institutions around the state intended to handle the special educational problems of these groups. Certain misguided youngsters of our University too often seem to forget that indiscriminate admissions will hamper the University's function in providing the fine leadership so essential to the preservation of our society.

Fortunately, the students didn't add the equal admissions question to their demands. Although we are having to pospone expansion for a time, this postponement has had the salutary effect of allowing us to be more selective in future admissions. Senator Burrd has assured us that any objections raised by H.E.W. will be "adjudicated" by the White House.

Gratefully yours,

Your Board of Visitors

TO THE BOARD OF VISITORS:

Excellencies:

Why are we weighed upon with heaviness,
And utterly consumed with sharp distress,
While all things else have rest from weariness?

Yet waft me from the harbour-mouth,
Wild Wind! I seek a warmer sky,
And I will see before I die
the palms and temples of the South.

[So] Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an
equal mind,
In the hollow lotus-land to live and lie reclined
On the hills like gods together, careless of mankind.

Sincerely,

Edgar

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