Excerpt from The Ante-Bellum University: Oration Delivered at the Celebration of the Centennial of the University of North Carolina, June 5th, 1895 However this may be, I confess my cordial sympathy with the sentiment underlying the Hindu worship, as being one of genuine piety, however misdirected and I am sure you will as cordially sympathize with me in the attempt which I shall make to illus trate it today by presenting for your contemplation the services of our forefathers, who established and maintained, through countless Vicissitudes, this venerable institution. I say the attempt in all sincerity, for colossal would be the egotism, immeasurable the self-esteem, which could accept this duty expecting to fully meet all its requirements. 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.