Excerpt from An Address Before the Convention of the American Bankers' Association: At Saratoga, September 3, 1890 In this way each subsequent period is taken up and worked over and when the student has completed his course, he is not only familiar with the names of the Presidents, of the Governors, of the orators and statesmen of the Republic; he not only knows when the battle of the Brandywine was fought and when the treaty of peace was signed at the close of the Revolution; but he has a tolerably clear notion of the course of our coun try's history in each of the great departments of our national life. 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.