Public Exercises at the Inauguration of REV. Samuel Gilman Brown, D.D., as the Seventh President of Hamilton College, at Clinton, N.Y., Wednesday, July 17, 1867

by Hamilton College

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 ...not only of the founders and builders, and first guardians and teachers of the College, but of almost all the early Alumni who became in any considerable degree distinguished, and ample justice done to their characters and their labors. All important facts in regard to its origin, its condition, its educational character, its struggles with difficulties, its progress, and its influence through its years of infancy, and the staple anecdotes of that interesting period, were presented in pleasant and attractive speech and writing. The whole subject seems to be exhausted. Yet, one who was a pupil of the Institution for nearly four years, commencing in the second year of the second stage of its existence, may possibly state a few things, from information and memory, which, though unimportant, may possess some little interest for those who followed him, and who are curious in matters of antiquity. history without thinking and speaking of him who brought it into existence. His life and methods show that he knew and felt the truth, announced by Doctor Fisher, that a college could not be "extemporized"--that it must have time and space to " grow y" and that he knew, too, that these were no short or easy ways to any great and permanent good. It may not be amiss to repeat these truths frequently, and even in this very humble place, though it may have little or nothing to do with the proper subject of this paper. The spirit of the age leads to attempts not only to extemporize colleges, but to extemporize almost every form of earthly good, and to make short cuts to the prizes which the Divine wisdom has decreed shall be reached and kept only by patient, persevering and intelligent labor, continued through long paths filled with hidden and constantly ...

24 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2012