Author: Thomas RobbinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330800461
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the Society of Alumni of Williams College, at Their Twenty-Second Anniversary, August 16, 1843 Forty-seven years ago, I had the privilege of offering congratulations to the Corporation, and Faculty, and Friends, of this Institution, at its Second Commencement. We have now, through the good hand of our God upon us, an opportunity of assembling on a like occasion, half a century from the time of its legal organization. The Act of Incorporation was passed by the Legislature of the Commonwealth in June, 1793, conferring the usual rights and powers of a collegiate institution, by the name of Williams College. I remember reading in a newspaper at New Haven, an account of the first meeting of the Corporation, soon after the Act was received, and of their appointment of Mr. Ebenezer Fitch as President. It was also stated that the qualifications for admission would be much the same as those at Yale College. 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.