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Excerpt from College Discipline: An Inaugural Address Delivered at Davidson College, on the 28th February, 1855
Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees:
You have been pleased to call me from a noble and time-honored Institution, in part founded by, and bearing the name of, the Father of bis Country, and have invited me to cast in my lot among you, and to labor in the College over which you preside.
I left a warm-hearted, generous, hospitable people, distinguished for their intelligence, piety, and high-toned principles; I left a Board of Trustees, whose unvarying kindness and con6dence, no gratitude of mine can ever repay; I left a Faculty, whose venerable head, I revered as a Father, and with whose junior members, my intercourse was that of a brother; I left a College, the character of whose students was such that during six years, I received not a single mark of discourtesy, or disrespect. Surely then, in view of the many pleasant attendants upon my life in Virginia, the motives that prompted to a change of location, could have been neither few, nor slight. Some of them only need I give.
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Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees:
You have been pleased to call me from a noble and time-honored Institution, in part founded by, and bearing the name of, the Father of bis Country, and have invited me to cast in my lot among you, and to labor in the College over which you preside.
I left a warm-hearted, generous, hospitable people, distinguished for their intelligence, piety, and high-toned principles; I left a Board of Trustees, whose unvarying kindness and con6dence, no gratitude of mine can ever repay; I left a Faculty, whose venerable head, I revered as a Father, and with whose junior members, my intercourse was that of a brother; I left a College, the character of whose students was such that during six years, I received not a single mark of discourtesy, or disrespect. Surely then, in view of the many pleasant attendants upon my life in Virginia, the motives that prompted to a change of location, could have been neither few, nor slight. Some of them only need I give.
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.