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Excerpt from Letter to the President of Harvard College
As one of the alumni of Harvard, I rejoice most sincerely. That, possessing, as you do, so many of the most important requisites for the place, you have been selected for it, and have devoted yourself to its high duties, and its noble incitements. But you are not to imagine that all the difficulties of the post have been pointed out in the preceding sentences. The qualities which have been enumerated are those which will be called forth in the practice of the daily routine of duties, under even the most favorable circumstances; while their very highest efforts will be necessary, to meet the occasional trials of controversy, and the more. 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.
