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582 History University of Illinois Your committee, especially with the work of this inauguration day so well done, feel doubly assured that no efforts of unfriendly persons, even when members of its Board of Trustees can work no substantial harm. The delinquency complained of in this case can be safely treated with generous forbearance, not only in deferent to the peculiarities of temper and obliquity of judgment, which in some form affects even good men, but to that other assurance, that a little time, a wise caution, and sufficient patience will heal all wounds thus inflicted. The Committee beg leave to add here, that the good people of Champaign ought to be relieved from the importation already finding lodgment in many minds throughout the State, that they in any manner share or approve the attacks complained of. Their munificence on former occasions and their magnificent welcome today, demand this grateful service at our hands. Your Committee in conclusion propose the following resolutions:— Resolved, that this Board of Trustees have undiminished confidence in the integrity, ability and fitness of the Regent, and pledge him a firm support in the performance of his duties. Resolved, that the course of study, and measures of administration adopted shall receive a fair and honest trial, subject to such modification and change as experience and due deliberation may require. Resolved, that public criticism and full investigation of the acts of this Board is invited, and that this Board will at all times give respectful consideration to measures proposed in a proper manner by its members in any matter seeming to require its action. Resolved, that this Board regard with disapprobation the conduct of M. L. Dunlap, Esq., a member as stated in the paper submitted to this Committee, and in the foregoing report, and consider the practices complained of a departure from the courtesy of official intercourse, aj dereliction of duty, offensive to the Board, injurious to the community, and not proper in one holding a seat as a member of the Board.
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