(To the Editor.)
Sir, — If it be cowardly to attack some persons of a body without naming fhe individuals, as "Secularist" in your last issue declares ifc is, how much, more cowardly must it be to attack individuals under an assumed name, especially if those individuals are unable to defend themselves. To vent his spleen on Mr. Stanford by abusing his pupils, is alike unmanly and ungenerous. That some of his acquaintances are the characters he describes, I am of course unable co contradict ; but to assert that such is the character of Mr. Stanford's pupils T most emphatically deny. What a boy learns in early years cannot be eradicated by a twelvemonth's training, however careful that training may be ; but I can say that, intimate as I have been with his pupils, I have never seen or heard anything ungentlemanly or coarse "in their behaviour, and have only heard of one instance of the kind. Living close to them, and exposed to boyish annoyances {had they been so inclined), I never to my knowledge suffered any. — I am, &c,
John Dewe.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 202, 14 December 1871, Page 6
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182(To the Editor.) Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 202, 14 December 1871, Page 6
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