Excerpt from A Baccalaureate Address, Delivered Before the Senior Class, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, July 8th, 1840 How far we have been successful in assisting you to acquire the elements of such an education as this, it is not for us to say. Time must determine whether the foundation laid is able to sus tain an elevated and massive superstructure. Remember also you are to finish the edifice yourselves, and that the foundation, however deep and firm, will avail you little unless you continue to build upon it. Keep at work, therefore, lest, by neglect, it become an unsightly heap, and all that behold it begin to mock you, saying, this man began to build and was not able to finish. 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.