Excerpt from Opening of Walker Hall: Amherst College, Amherst, Mass;, Oct; 20, 1870
We have assembled for a public opening of our new temple of science, - Walker Hall. I had no intention, till quite recently, of presenting any remarks on this occasion; but having failed in all hopes of an address from other quarters, and thinking it not quite becoming that so great an event in our college-life as the completion and first occupation of such an edifice should be passed over without attention, I have concluded to occupy a few moments on some of the subjects connected with collegiate education, which are now agitating the minds of all liberally-educated and most other intelligent men. They are subjects on which I have long reflected, but for the complete presentation of which I have now but too little time. A few preliminary statements would seem to be required by the circumstances under which we meet. The origin of our building, the munificent spirit in which its funds were contributed, the uses and special kinds of learning for which it was constructed, the division of its apartments, the order and methods of its architecture, with notices commemorative of the principal donor, and of the noble gentlemen by whom he was generously seconded, - all have been sufficiently set forth in a pamphlet entitled "Exercises at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of Walker Hall, June 10, 1868."
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