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A Historical Discourse by Rev. John Wheeler, D.d., an Address by James R. Spalding, Esq., and a Poem by Rev. O.g. Wheeler
A Historical Discourse by Rev John Wheeler Dd an Address by James R Spalding Esq and a Poem by Rev Og Wheeler Author:John Wheeler Subtitle: Delivered on the Occasion of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the University of Vermont With an Account of the Proceedings at the Celebration General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1854 Original Publisher: Free Press Print Subjects: Christian life Universities and colleges Education / Higher Juve... more »nile Fiction / Religious / Christian Religion / Christian Life / General Study Aids / College Guides Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Besides the large subscription of General Allen, subscriptions of a surprisingly liberal character were obtained in Charlotte, Shelburne, Williston, Colchester, Milton, Jericho, Georgia, St. Albans, and from sundry individuals in other places. These amounted to £1,650 in addition to Gen. Allen's. The various subscriptions are in his hand writing, and were all obtained by his active and personal attention to the business. It was intended to append a list of the various subscriptions, to this, or a subsequent note, but it has been found impossible to do it, without such omissions as would be a seeming injustice to many of the benefactors. Note B. The manner of selecting and procuring the Library, is worthy of more special note, than could be taken of it, in the public address. It was a work of labor. All the catalogues, which could be then obtained, were procured, both from Booksellers, and from large private collections of books. Having obtained these, the first thing done was to divide the ideal Library into various subjects or departments, as Philology, Ancient Languages, Antiquities, Art, Geography, Philosophy, Natural History, Mathematics, Ac., Ac., that no important subject might be omitted. There were twenty seven of these divisio...« less