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Excerpt from Dedication of Franklin and Marshall College: Lancaster, Pa., May 16th, 1856 Here scores and hundreds of youth will congregate from year to year. They will come from the north and the south, from the east and the west, from the city and the country, from the valleys and the mountains, each one with habits and opinions of his own, modified by the place of his birth and the character of his early companions. They will come from the families of the intelligent and ignorant, of the rich and the poor; some from the proud and ambitious, others from the modest and humble, each one with plans and views of life varying with the atmosphere of the parental fireside. They will come, some with strong and others with feeble minds, some with industrious, simple and moral habits, others with indolent, luxurious and immoral habits; some with noble hearts, calm, bright hopes and a firm will, and others there may be who will lack all the better and purer susceptibilities of our nature. To this spot they will come as to a common centre, acting and reacting on each other, mind striking against mind, will winning or resist ing will, and heart repelling or attracting heart, each one giv ing an impulse to, and exerting some peculiar influences upon, the life of the community. Some old habits will be laid aside, some old friendships dissolved, some old ties broken; here new habits will be contracted, here new, warm and lasting friend ships will spring up, here soul will be bound to soul by ties that neither age nor death can break. 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.