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manual for Pres. and it would
seem a sit of fools for Board
of Trustees. They have put absolute
power into his hands over
favulty and students; this he
used so cruelly last year as to
expell 17 students without
investigation, and with some 8
or 10 more on the rack. He dismissed
one Prof. and put 6 of
us on the rack. Considering
now that he is only 28 yrs of
age, was never in a college until
he became Pres. of ours, that he
has not scholarship enough to
teach the simplest of our classes;
has not public ability enough
to make an announcement
from the [?]; looks like
an escaped convict; was never
known to tell the truth; has
not information enough to engage
in conversation with any one
of the faculty, unless with [?]
in plotting mischief; that he
was only 4 yrs in the state before
he was elevated to his his

high post, some in the interval
was a fugitive from justice in
his own state (Indiana); that
all sorts, of [?] are
charged upon him – particularly,
as the boys write, on the fly
leaves of their Hymn-Books, is
the "greatest hair in the state of
Iowa" – considering all these
things what very hopeful outlook
can there be for our college.
[?] such adventurers have not
a long lease of success, and
the whole city of D. M. is on the
scent of him; and the legislation
is in the [temper?/tamper?] to look
scrutinizingly into his history.
The feeling prevails here that he
will be compelled to resign. I
cannot see how any college could
carry such a load. [?] [?] put
him in; he was deceived I think,
[?] I have no evidence that
he has been disinchanted. If
he has not been, he will have
to be. I shall be very much