Excerpt from The Need of a Higher Standard of Education in the United States: An Address Delivered Before the Philokalian and Philomathean Societies of St. John's College IT gave me great pleasure to accept the honor you conferred upon me in inviting me to address you on this interesting anniversary, although the time allowed for preparation was so Short as to make me feel apprehensive that I should not be able to do justice either to the occa sion or myself. But in accepting the invitation, I did what. I certainly should not advise you to adopt as a general rule of conduct - that is, I took counsel of my feelings rather than of my judgment. 1 say Of my feel ings, because education has always been to me a subject of deep interest; and it is no exaggeration to assert that today the cause of liberal education in Maryland is closely identified with the cause of St. John's College. 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.