You have several times lately assisted me in various ways, and I know, from the cheerful manner with which you comply with my wishes, that your prevailing desire is to give me pleasure, not pain.

You have fallen into this practice through thoughtlessness, but that does not alter the character of the sin.

To do so is a great sin against God, and a great offense against good order in school.

You see, yourself, that my duty to the school will require me to adopt the most decided measures to prevent the continuance and the spread of such a practice.

I should be imperiously bound to do it, even if the individual was the very best friend I had in school, and if the measures necessary should bring upon him great disgrace and suffering.