Excerpt from The Position and Duties of the Educated Men of the Country: A Discourse Pronounced Before the Euglossian and Alpha Phi Delta Societies of Geneva Colege, Aug; 5, 1840
We meet, on this your anniversary, as a Brotherhood of Scholars; and perhaps I should best have consulted the spirit of the occasion, if I had selected some subject of purely literary interest, or endeavored merely to promote the elegant enjoyment of the hour. But I have taken the liberty to give our thoughts a more practical direction. I remember that but few, if any of us, are mere scholars. Those who have come here to day from different places, have come up from strenuous engagement with the intense life that is heaving and struggling all around us; and when we go from here, it is to return into the crowd and pressure of that life again. And those who are about to be sent out at this time from this seat of learning, must leave "the still air of delightful studies," in this quiet and beautiful retreat, and go forth to do honor to their Benignant Mother in the active service of their country and their God.
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