Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the Thalian and Phi Delta Societies of Oglethorpe University: At the Annual Commencement, July 20th, 1853 AT the close of another accademie year, the voice of this Literary Institution has again summoned the friends of edu cation and the votaries of learning, to this, her annual festival. Responding to the call, they have laid aside the cares and avocations-of life, and gathered within these classic portals to banquet for a season upon the stores of her bounty. 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.