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These lectures are intended to add to the popular value of this 
Museum. In connection with these services on the part of the 
College, the Museum throws open its collections, and. grants the 
opportunity of research to the Professors and students of Colum- 
bia, who may be able profitably to use them. It gives me pleasure 
to say that in striving to bring about this arrangement Columbia, 
has had no thought or desire for an exclusive privilege. We shall 
be only too glad to have our colleagues engaged with us in the 
work of advancing higher education in the City of New York do 
the same thing, and profit by all the privileges that are here. 
Whatever else may be true of education, I think it is distinctively 
true that no great advance in education ever was made along 
narrow lines. We must work together to produce the best 
results for the people of the City of New York and for the in- 
habitants of this country, and it is in that spirit that this arrange- 
ment has been begun. I hope it will be continued and developed 
until all its latent possibilities are made clear to the public as the 
years roll on. 
I have spoken thus far, Mr. President, of the service that this 
Museum might be to the people of the city and to the scholars 
of the city. I should fall wholly short of its full significance if 
I did not point out to you that it was one of the great agents in 
the City of New York for rendering a service to mankind. You 
remember how Tennyson says of his hero in Locksley Hall, that 
he is the heir of all the ages ; we stand here as a country pre- 
eminently the heir of all the ages. New York is the great city of 
that fortunate and happy heir. I submit it to your reflection that 
a city that is to rank as a great city on the memorial pages of 
history, must be a city that not only receives what the rich past 
has to give it, but that takes what is committed to its trust, 
transmutes it into a finer gift, and hands it down ennobled and 
enriched to the generations to come. 
Address by President Jesup, introducing the Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, 
the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, and Archbishop Corrigan : 
I know that your patience will not be taxed to wait a few min- 
utes longer, for I want one of our Trustees, the Hon. Abram S. 
