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Excerpt from Addresses at the Dedication of the New Cabinet and Observatory of Amherst College, June 28, 1848
Through the judicious and persevering efforts of the friends of the College in the State Legislature, and eminently of its graduates, who were members, the sum of in five annual installments, was granted. And with this we have been enabled to cancel our debts, make our buildings more comfortable, reduce the expenses of tuition, and provide a handsome endowment for a Massachusetts Professor ship, which shall forever bear testimony to our gratitude. 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.
