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WE regret that in our last number the blame for not removing the German tutor, about whom there has been so much scandal, was laid on the Faculty, whereas the Corporation are really responsible. It is so difficult to find anybody who is responsible for anything in a college like our own that the mistake was an excusable one. We are happy to say that we have learned that strong efforts were made by a few individual members of the Faculty to obtain his removal, although the matter could not come before them as a body. Of the Corporation, however, we would repeat what we said of the Faculty, that they neglected their duty in not removing this tutor. Among the Statutes of the University is the following clause: "All officers of instruction and government are subject to removal for inadequate performance of duty, or for misconduct." There was no moral doubt of misconduct in this case, although, from the nature of the offence, there may have been a legal doubt. It was not to be expected that any one would be fool enough to come forward and confess that he had bribed a tutor. It would have been hard, however, to have found any undergraduate who had not frequently heard of his doings. We are perfectly aware that a story may spread from a small beginning, but when a large number of reports of this sort are prevalent for three years, circumstantially told and coming from various and reliable sources, it is safe to say that there must be a good and sufficient foundation for them. We repeat what we said before, that it would have been better for the College had the man been dismissed, at whatever pecuniary loss.

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