Celebration Of The One Hundredth Anniversary Of The Founding Of Brown University September 6th 1864 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Sequicentennial of Brown University, 1764-1914: A Commemoration The Corporation at the adjourned Annual Meeting held on Friday, October 16, 1914, "Voted: That a committee of five, of which the Chairmen of the General Committee and of the Committee on the Academic Programme shall be two, the remaining three to be selected by the President, shall be appointed to take charge of the financing, publication, and distribution of a report of the exercises and festivities attendant upon the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University." The committee as finally constituted was made to consist of Mr. Henry D. Sharpe, Professor William MacDonald, Rev. Henry M. King, Professor Walter G.Everett, and Professor Albert K.Potter. On March 1, 1915, the committee requested Mr. William V. Kellen, 72, to edit this record. The editor is chiefly indebted to the vivid and accurate reports of "The Providence Journal" for the story of the celebration. 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.