A Baccalaureate Address, Delivered Before the Senior Class, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 8th, 1840 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Baccalaureate Address, Delivered Before the Senior Class, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 8th, 1840 Gentlemen of the Senior Class: The present is an interesting period in your lives. You are about to exchange the exercises and discipline of the gymnasium for the actual conflicts of the arena. You are to lay aside the foils and grasp the naked steel. Hitherto you have been directed, assisted, governed youth. Now you are to go forth alone, self-relying, self-ruling men. The circle of your pleasures and pains is to be enlarged, and the number of your duties multiplied; the weight of your responsibilities is to be increased, and the range of your influence indefinitely extended. Your country calls you; society opens her bosom to welcome and to cherish you; the future half withdraws her misty curtain from before your eyes and with a thousand blandishments beckons you forward. You stand impatient to hear the signal trumpet, eager to rush forth and mingle "in the world´s broad field of battle" and resolved to be "heroes in the strife." Perchance, even, in the ardor of youthful aspirations, intent on the scenes that loom up in your view like a gorgeous mirage, you forget that "Your hearts though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave." On this occasion, not less important than interesting, it has fallen to my lot to address you; and I rejoice that in all my intercourse with the class no incident has occurred to chill the cordiality with which I can press the hand of every individual in it, and greet him as my friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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