Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration: Of the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL. D., As President, Elect, of Rutgers College, N. Brunswick, July 24th, 1850 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Addresses Delivered at the Inauguration: Of the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, LL. D., As President, Elect, of Rutgers College, N. Brunswick, July 24th, 1850

The Annual Commencement of Rutgers College in New Jersey, took place at New Brunswick on Wednesday 24th day of July, 1850. Hon. A. Bruyn Hasbrouck, who had for ten years presided over the Institution with great acceptance, and at a late meeting of the Trustees had resigned the office of President, occupied for the last time, the honorable station from which he was about retiring; at the close of the exercises, after conferring the usual degrees, he rose, and took leave of the Trustees and Students, in the following impressive Address.

Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees :

In rising to confer the Degrees bestowed by you on the Class now before you, I cannot but be reminded, that it is the last official act as President of the College, which I shall be called upon to discharge. I have already on a former occasion, expressed to you, in terms however inadequate, my deep sense of obligation for your ready co-operation in all the duties devolved upon me as the head of your Institution. But now, when the final parting has at length come, I trust I may be indulged in a renewal of thanks for courtesy which has known no intermission, - for kindness which has been as ready to cover my deficiencies as to anticipate my wishes. It is now within a few days, ten years since, in this very place, I was inducted into office, with ceremonies similar to those that await my successor this afternoon.

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