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and admitted that the College was not what it should be; but 

 that was no reason why it should be discontinued, rather, "it 

 is a reason why we should hold on, rally to its support, doing 

 the best we can to help make it better, that it may become a 

 credit to the state, the nation, and the whole civilized world." 

 A word about this chart on the wall, to which Mr. Monroe 

 has referred. Six inches in length represents a year, and the 

 width indicates the number of students in each year. The 

 additions and endowments are represented on the upper side; 

 the names of the presidents appear in the middle of the stream, 

 sometimes deep and often turbulent. Leading events are named 

 on the lower edge of the canvas. The widening stream repre- 

 senting 1,000 students, on which appears the name of President 

 Snyder, is not the delta as it might seem, right at the entrance to 

 a great sea, but is believed to represent this College fairly enter- 

 ing on a long series of years of ever-increasing prosperity when 

 the students shall be numbered by thousands. 



