Inauguration of President Henry Hopkins; 1902 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ss c ri . I -: L.D. lents e the f the on to i, i rved: -. i lice. f '..: - -I t.i. ' S fol-, v; .. .ected n: t.v umni. ''h )., a re- . (.'' tradi- .'. astees, ted to ': tingly lan to: presi- iy con- ic else, apply: to his chapter{Section 4CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS Address On Behalf Of The Faculty PROFESSOR JOHN HASKELL HEWITT, LL.D. By the courtesy of the committee of arrangements and of my colleagues there has been assigned to me the pleasing duty of extending to you, sir, in behalf of the faculty, their hearty congratulations on your accession to the presidency, and of pledging to you their unreserved co-operation in the bearing of the burdens of your office. We are not sorry that the board of trustees has followed the precedents of the past sixty-six years and elected the president of the College from among its own alumni. Familiar with the College Irom your earliest years, a recipient of its training and of its degree, imbibing its traditions, for fifteen years a member of its board of trustees, you come to us as no stranger. Rarely is one elected to the presidency of a college to whom might more fittingly be applied the phrase " To the manner born" than to yourself. Welcoming you, as we do, as the son of the president who for two-thirds of a century was intimately connected with the College, and who, more than anyone else, gave distinction to its name, we may not unfittingly apply to you the words addressed by the Augustan poet to his patron: ? Maecenas atavis, edite regibus, O et pracsidium et dulce decus meum. The first two score years of the history of this College were years of limited resources and struggles with poverty. In 1836, when Mark Hopkins was inaugurated president, the College h...