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Excerpt from Celebration of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary: Of the Albany Academy Albany, June 23, 1863 Fifty years had passed since the Albany Academy received a corporate existence. In that half-century, Albany itself had received a new life. It had wakened to commercial strength; the grasp of the canal and the railways had lifted it up to wealth and to power, and the jubilee of the great school of the city, even though it came in an hour of evil, was welcomed by a large circle of the community. The Albany Academy had been firmly founded. It had received the attention of the city when that city was yet so small as to concentrate its judgment in public affairs. It had received the care and good will of the stately old men of the colonial and revolutionary time, who, many of them, survived till the period when its organization was determined. The liberality and good taste of the times, had enshrined it in a noble building. It was in all respects worthy of the great word Learning. The trustees of the Academy, who had watched faithfully over its career, some of them for a long series of years, were gratified when the proposition was made to signalize its fiftieth year of life, by calling together its Alumni and its Students, and as the plan for the appropriate celebration of such day developed it was found that everywhere the love for the Old School, was vivid, and that a response in favor of the proposition was in readiness. 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.