Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Building of the University: An Inaugural Address Delivered at Oakland, Nov. 7th, 1872
During the last few years great changes have been made in the higher educational systems of this and other lands. New institutions have been built; Old institutions have been rebuilt. Better halls, more varied programmes, larger staffs Of teachers, wiser methods of instruction, closer adaptation to the wants of society, are among the improvements ren dered actual by advancing scholarship and increasing funds. 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.
