Excerpt from The History of the Origin and Growth of Carleton College: Northfield, Minn

In presenting to the Conference of Congregational Churches the story of this institution, some words of explanation or of apology may be called for. It would not be at all strange if the inquiry should arise in some minds, why is this history given by one but recently come to the State, and why is it not the work of some of those connected with the college, who could speak from personal knowledge, and withal officially? To these queries I would reply, that this paper originates from the desire on the part of those connected officially with Carleton, to have its history written out and preserved, and was suggested to the writer, as a comparatively new comer, and one, therefore, likely to give impartially a history in which he was not an actor. It would be an embarrassment to any member of the Faculty to write out a narrative in which he figured more or less prominently, and this of itself, seemed to make it necessary to remit the privilege and labor to other hands.

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