Excerpt from Report Collegiate Education, Made to the Trustees of the University of Alabama: July, 1852
If the college system of this country, maintaining a remark able similarity notwithstanding varieties and changes, were originally the result of intelligent consideration, as is fair to 'be presumed, this is a becoming spirit. In any well-considered scheme, changes must grow; and gradually incorporate the selves into the original structure - nor should the conceit of Superior, or exclusive, wisdom in succeeding generations of managers he suffered to obliterate the labors of predecessors. Every thing we enjoy is, in some degree, inherited.
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