A Vindication of Colleges and College Endowments
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Excerpt from A Vindication of Colleges and College Endowments: An Inaugural Address Delivered in the Chapel of Morrison College, November 2, 1840 Friends and Fellow-Citizens: We have assembled in this hall under circumstances of no ordinary interest. After having assisted, in the earlier part of the day, at the dedication to the interests of Medical Science, of the spacious and elegant edifice erected by the munificence of the City Council, you have now convened to witness the induction of a new Faculty into the department of the Liberal Arts and Sciences. To this new organization your eyes are directed, not without anxiety - perhaps, after so many unsuccessful experiments, not without reasonable fears - for resuscitating the long buried glory of Transylvania, and restoring her pristine honors. On our parts, we take office with a full sense of the responsibility we are incurring, and of the difficulties which we may have to meet. From that responsibility we do not shrink; those difficulties we trust to surmount, through the almost invincible power of a resolute purpose, and the favoring smiles of a benignant Providence. That there are formidable prejudices to be encountered we are not unaware, but from the very circumstance that seems to render them so formidable, their being old and deeply rooted, we draw encouragement. Were these prejudices of late growth we might more justly tremble. But surely it would be most unfair to make us suffer for mistakes of which we are innocent, or to hold us accountable for errors in which we had no participation. It may be truly said, that there never was an organization so totally disconnected in every way with those that have preceded it. There is a thorough renovation. We have new trustees, new teachers, new laws, new funds, and even new buildings, and unless a certain musty proverb has lost its virtue, we are unquestionably entitled to all the benefits that novelty can give. Thus we turn the very objection into an argument in our favor. Even granting that those ancient prejudices were not unfounded, a question which we do not mean to discuss, we are bold to affirm that whatever grounds of objection might once have existed, they exist no longer, at least to the same extent. 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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