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Excerpt from A Memorial Discourse on the Life and Services of Rev. Henry Philip Tappan, D. D., LL. D., President of the University From 1852 to 1863: Delivered in University Hall, by Request of the Senate and Alumni, at the Meeting of the Association of the Alumni, June 28, 1882 And such an educational statesman and philosopher was he whose high worth we. This day commemorate; whose life and beneficent work, though deserving a far abler pen than mine, I have, nevertheless, by your request, and as a labor of love and duty, undertaken to describe. 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.