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Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the Society of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, at Their First Triennial Meeting, July 25, 1855 A college is to be distinguished from a university, on the one hand, and from an academy, or Special school, on the other. An attempt to unite elements that are properly distinct, and perhaps incongruous, or to compel either institution to perform the functions of the others, would be for the injury of all. In the Spiritless compound would be found neither the sharp ness of the acid, nor the vigor of the alkali. To give a high sounding name and a profusion of nominal officers, with no scholars to be taught, and no funds to support the empty dignity, is a fault on the one Side, just as calling the mind back from liberal excur sions over the field of the largest knowledge, and binding it to a single special course of study, would be a fault on the other. Different schools may move with harmony and mutual profit side by side, or in concentric orbits, each Silently affecting, but not dis turbing the other, but those cannot be blended with out mutual injury, whose objects and methods, whose discipline and culture, are radically diverse. 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.