Excerpt from A Discourse Delivered at Williamstown The American people are much given to the celebration of anniversaries. To say nothing of those that recur annually, as the Fourth of July and Washington's Birthday, has a man been married, or a minister settled, five, or ten, or twenty-five, or fifty years has a battle been fought at one of these intervals; 'has a town been settled or an institution founded fifty, or a hundred, or two hundred and fifty years, there must be a celebration, a gathering, congratulations, sometimes gifts, some times a dinner, always a speech. From this tendency the calls upon me have been exceptionally numerous. When this College had been founded fifty years, having been for seven years its president. 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.