{"id":2115,"date":"2013-08-12T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T03:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2020-10-22T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T02:56:24","slug":"bad-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/bad-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"

The document below recently came to light.\u00a0 What prompted Silas Holman to write Principal William Gallagher (served 1886-1896) and confess his misdemeanors of forty-two years earlier is unknown — except that as every alumnus knows, the statute of limitations rarely extends beyond graduation.\u00a0 We will leave it to others’\u00a0historical perspectives to determine whether, at the most fundamental level, things have changed much.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Principal William Gallagher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Los Angeles Cal.<\/em>
\nFeb. 18th 1891<\/em><\/p>\n

Mr. Wm. Gallagher<\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dear Sir: Yours of the 11th is received.\u00a0 Well do I remember the happy school days at East Hampton, when we irreverently nick named Mr. Wright the Principal “Boss Wright.”\u00a0 Post Master Ferry once caught me as I was climbing up the inside of the tower of the old Town House to ring the bell, or rather to attach a chord to the tongue.\u00a0 I remember getting a string through the ventilator of a fellow student’s room, attaching it to his door key, opening the door and putting eggs in his boots while he was asleep.\u00a0 I was not a bad boy but loved fun.\u00a0 Please call to see me when you come to Los Angeles.\u00a0 Truly yours, Silas Holman.<\/em><\/p>\n

Silas Holman was a member of the Williston Seminary class of 1849, enrolled in the English (i.e. Scientific) curriculum.\u00a0 After Williston he returned to farming in his home town of Bolton, Mass., and also served as an Internal Revenue assessor and Deputy Sherriff.\u00a0 In 1879 he emigrated to California, where he\u00a0became a fruit grower.\u00a0 He died around 1904.<\/p>\n

Utterly off-topic: Holman’s papers at Williston also include an 1847 receipt for one term’s tuition.\u00a0 Any comment one might make would merely restate the obvious.\"\"<\/a>“Bad Behavior” will undoubtedly be an ongoing series on this blog.\u00a0 What’s the worst thing you ever did?\u00a0\u00a0Keeping in mind that we really can’t revoke your diploma, consider confessing to archives@williston.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

We welcome your comments and questions.\u00a0 Please use the link below.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The document below recently came to light.\u00a0 What prompted Silas Holman to write Principal William Gallagher (served 1886-1896) and confess his misdemeanors of forty-two years earlier is unknown — except that as every alumnus knows, the statute of limitations rarely extends beyond graduation.\u00a0 We will leave it to others’\u00a0historical perspectives to determine whether, at the … Continue reading Bad Behavior<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[140,96,453,25],"tags":[255,240,256,253,254],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-alumnae","category-student-letters","category-student-life","category-williston-seminary","tag-bad-behavior","tag-luther-wright","tag-practical-jokes","tag-silas-holman","tag-william-gallagher"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4985,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/4985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}