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[Letter from Warren Akin Candler to William Sydnor Thomson, April 30, 1897]
Emory College,President's Office
Oxford, Ga.,
April, 30 1897
My dear Brother:
I am pained thus to send you this letter
On last Thursday April and Friday
nights whilst I was in Atlanta there
was serious disorder here. Bonfires
were kindled on the campus, bombs
belonging to the contractor on the new
building were burned; pistols were
fired;
Dr. Moore's
fencing was
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damaged, and Dr. Haygood's professional
sign was pulled down & carried
to
Prof. Jarrell's
One of the causes which prevented my recessing in Atlanta over Sunday as I greatly desired to do [added] was a telephone message advising my return here on the account of this disorder.
This week we have been
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investigating the matter as well as
authorities are able who have no
subpoena power to secure their testimony
I had not supposed
Albert
had participated in it but today April 30.
he confessed to me what he had
to do with the disorder on the campus.
He denied having had any part in
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other parts of the disorder. He has been suspended for two weeks
and demerited.
Others who added to the offense of disorder, falsehood before the faculty when questioned, have been dismissed.
I write the facts to you with a
heavy heart. If while I am away
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pleading for Christian education
buys whom I implicitly trusted
can bring dishonor to the institution I
feel like laying down the work
as a vain and impossible task.
Yet I am conscious of doing the best
I know how to make Christian men
and I must leave my failure in God's hands.
W.A. Candler
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