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Excerpt from First Annual Report of the President to the Board of Trustees: Oct; 4, 1890 When called upon to consider the invitation with which the trustees of this university honored me, two and a half years ago, I was in an institution which, in the less than fifteen years of its existence, had done a work in stimulating other institutions, and in advanc ing the highest standards, which was, as I think all cheerfully admit, beyond comparison in the recent his tory of higher education in this country. After study ing Worcester and the New England situation, I saw the opportunity here to be so great for a further and at least no less epoch-making step, that I felt that assured career, and even an important department, new in this country and full of fascinations, and in the most oriti cal stage of its development, ought not to weigh against it. Permission was at once given me to begin my preparations for this important work by studying foreign institutions for a year. I visited every Euro pean country but Portugal, and found everywhere great and surprising advances since my own student life abroad had ended. 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.