Word: robinsons
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...spark for the final confrontation was no conflict between principles, but rather a duel between personalities: Robinson and Woodbury, two prominent members of the class. Robinson was an outstanding scholar, a prominent and well-liked member of the class's unruly majority. Woodbury was a "Black"--an informer and, an avowed enemy of Robinson...
...early spring of 1823, Woodbury attempted to obtain the position of Latin orator at commencement--a role he knew that Robinson was likely to win. With this in mind, he went with his friend and co-"Black", Steams, before the College Government. They claimed that Robinson was the principal promoter of the division in the class, that he had led the class to insult and harrass them, and that he had "expended in dissipation at Boston the money which had been allowed him by Government...
Following this testimony, the administration took action, and with the firm belief that it could thereby calm the unruly actions of the students, it punished Robinson, suspending all favors and monetary aid to him, and forbidding him from performing at the class Exhibition, an annual rate in which members of the graduating class were to perform dramatic presentations and orations...
...days after Exhibition Day, was a momentous day for the Class of 1823 and an outstanding occasion in the annals of Harvard history. On this morning, the College government called up Robinson, charged him with being the primary cause of the Exhibition Day disturbances, and dismissed him from the college...
...Robinson's incensed classmates and comrades assembled at a noon meeting, where they swore not to attend another college exercise as long as Woodbury remained a member of the class...