Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Historical Discourse: Delivered Before the Alumni of Dartmouth College, July 21, 1869; One Hundred Years; After the Founding of That Institution
A hundred years, within a few months, have passed since Dartmouth College received its charter from the hands of J ohn vventworth, the last Royal Governor of New Hampshire. It would have been an unpardonable forgetfulness if we had suffered this century to be completed without some public recognition of the good Providence which has so long sustained the College, and conferred upon it such prosperity; without assembling for mutual congratulations, for ia'rcview of the past, and promises for the future. Historically considered, no century of modern times has been more fruitful in great men and great events than that which closes with the present year. None has been 'so fruit ful in discoveries and inventions for bringing the earth under the dominion of man, or in the developing of those principles of civil liberty and self-government which have taken such profound hold of the popular mind, and given to free nations a variety and extent of power altogether unknown before.
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