Faculty Minutes, April 3 1863

Title

Faculty Minutes, April 3 1863

Description

Transcribed faculty minutes from April 3, 1863. Mentions an incident of Davidson students assaulting a black woman in the town.

Date

April 3, 1863

Text

It was stated by the President that he had been informed by one of the citizens, that Messrs. Denton and Ingraham had assaulted a negro woman, and beaten her for not complying with base proposals they had made to her. That he had questioned them on the subject, and that they had confessed that they had a difficulty with a negro woman, but that they had only resented an insult which she had given them.
The Faculty were, moreover, led to suspect that Messrs. Denton and Ingraham, together with Messrs. Weaden and Knox, had assisted Mr. Sparrow in the assault on the recitation rooms. Messrs. Denton and Ingraham had also left College without permission. The following Resolution was, therefore, adopted:
RESOLVED: That Messrs. Denton and Ingraham be indefinitely dismissed for leaving college without permission, for profane and filthy language, for assaulting a negro woman, and for their probable connection with the outrage of Tuesday night last.
It was also ordered by the Faculty that the parents of Messrs. Weaden and Knox be requested to remove them from College.

Publisher

Davidson College

Language

English

Source

Alma