Excerpt from Proceedings at the Installation of Seth Low, LL. D: As President of Columbia College in the City of New York, February 3, 1890 The chief address was the inaugural oration of President Low. Like all his addresses of the day, it was spoken without notes, and with the easy and simple self-possession of a master of the occasion and the situation. The address itself was briefly historical, and then passed naturally to a statement of the scope of a great university, and to a strong plea from one of the best representatives of the character istic activities of New York for the generous support by New York of an institution which, with so fine an historic tradition, represents the intellectual and spiritual forces which are the enduring foundations of human society. It was a strong, wise, dignified, and eloquent appeal, and it was impossible not to feel that with the orator at the head of the College, now peculiarly prosperous if compared with previous years, and with public sentiment more friendly than since its earlier day, the probability of a generous and effective local public sympathy would soon be apparent. 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.