Excerpt from The Place of the College Graduate in American Life: An Address Delivered Before the Social Union at Amherst College, July 2, 1879 There are men from whom the great intellect, the public service, the marvellous eloquence of Webster, cannot extort forgiveness for the political errors of his later life. But it is hard to find a lover of a New England college who does not surrender at disere tion when he reads the two stories, - the one related by Mr. Webster in his autobiography. Of the occa sion when his father first intimated his intention of sending him to college: I remember that I was quite overcome and my head grew dizzy. The thing appeared to me so high, and the expense and sacri fice it was to cost my father so great, I could only press his hand and shed tears; - the other, of thatscene in the room of the Supreme Court of the United States, where, as he concluded the argument that made safe the endowment of every college in America, the few broken words of tenderness for his Alma Mater, bursting from the heart of the strong man, melted bench and bar and audience to tears. 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.