Excerpt from Inaugural Address Delivered by Samuel Harris at His Induction Into the Presidency of Bowdoin College, August 6, 1867
It is a German legend that the emperor Charlemagne returns every spring to bless the German land. Up and down the Rhine he walks, flinging his blessing on gardens, vineyards and fields, to make the seed spring up and to multiply the vintage and harvest. The significance of the legend is realized in every anniversary of a well-ordered institution of learning. As the college sends out its successive classes of trained and cultivated minds, it is its venerated founders, benefactors, and supporters who reappear in the scenes of their life-long interest to fling their blessing on the land which they loved and served, to quicken every healthful growth, and to multiply the ingathering of human joy. The trust now committed to me I seem to receive, not merely from you who are now the supervisors of the College, but rather from the departed good who have given of their property for its endowment, or consecrated to it the loving and self-denying work of their lives.
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