Excerpt from Washington and the Higher Education: An Address Delivered Before Cornell University, February 22, 1888 And now that we have recalled the connection early established between Washington and what might be regarded as the higher education of his day, let us for a single moment look at the char acteristics and organization of colonial education of the higher grade. Let us observe how it was or ganized, how it was supported, what its influence was, and, if possible, what its needs were, in order to enable it to do the work that was called for by the American people. It is in this way, perhaps, that we can best prepare ourselves to judge aright as to the wisdom of the schemes afterwards pro posed by Washington. 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.