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results worthy of approval. I sincerely hope every man in the 
Faculty firmly believes his own department the most important 
one in the college. Of course, you will not expect the President 
to entertain the same opinion. It will be his duty to maintain 
a proper balance. A weak spot in our educational armour can 
not be offset by reinforcement at some other point. 
To the Students of Granville College : Do I need to tell you 
that I love young men. It requires no effort to establish a bond 
of sympathy between those who have walked the same paths, 
dwelt in the same halls and received instruction from the same 
teachers. You are not the only ones who receive. Your teachers 
are constantly warmed by the ardor and hopefulness of the 
young. May the government of the college always be based 
upon complete confidence, spontaneously expressed between you 
and those who seek to serve you. 
To the Students of Shepardson College: Upon the campus 
at the foot of this hill a high type of education for women was 
maintained at a time when an eastern college president declared 
it to be “faddish to say that a woman could comprehend college 
mathematics, or master the Greek verb,'’ and a professor of 
Philosophy said that “the effort to teach women his branch of 
study was beyond his comprehension." The movement for the 
higher education of women began by Emma Willard at Troy, 
CatharinPBeicher at Hartford and Mary Lyon at Ipswich and 
Holyoke had its counterpart in Granville. Shepardson College 
stands as one of the movements of that struggle against heavy 
odds. 
The origin of the two colleges, in whose honor we meet to- 
day is a close reproduction of the beginnings of the long train 
of colleges stretching south and west from New England fos- 
tered by a religious impulse for higher education. The passion 
to serve humanity led the people everywhere to contribute of 
their wealth and of their poverty to the establishing and endow- 
ing of colleges. With very few exceptions the colleges were the 
offspring of .the churches. The church as an organization rep- 
resented the highest ideals of the community. The intellectual 
activities of the people were almost wholly centered in them. 
Their highest ideals found expression through their religious 
organizations. It was natural that the churches should interest 
themselves in the establishment of colleges. In most instances 
