Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass; Alumni Records


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Excerpt from Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass; Alumni Records: From 1842 to 1874 The history of this effort can be briefly told. At the Quarter-Centennial Celebration in 1867, the Alumni Association was formed. In the public address delivered before the Association in 1870, Rev. H. Clay Trumbull advocated the collection of an alumni record. At the business meeting of the alumni in 1871 the project was again revived and a Committee consisting of Rev. II. Clay Trumbull and Prof. Judson Smith was appointed to present the matter to the Board of Trustees. The Trustees not only approved the undertaking but also assumed the expense of it, and Rev. S. T. Seelye, D. D., and Hon. E. H. Sawyer were chosen their Committee to co-operate with the Committee of the Alumni. Nobody being found during the succeeding year to assume the work, it was urged upon one who was not himself an alumnus, but who had the other advantage of being resident in Easthampton. The apology for this late appearance of a work begun in 1872 must be the difficulties of the task. There was not even a complete collection of annual catalogues with which to begin the record. And after the list of catalogues had been with some difficulty and delay filled they furnished no reliable knowledge regarding who were and were not alumni. For forming the alumni list, reliance has been placed upon the memory of men known to be members of the various classes. The rule adopted has been that all who have here completed a preparation for college, or scientific or professional school, and all who have finished a.course of study in any department, should be called alumni. 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.




Alumni Records From 1842 to 1874


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.













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