Addresses at the Inauguration of Merrill Edwards Gates ...: As President of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J. Tuesday, June 20th, 1882 |
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Page 43 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not...
Page 21 - moral thoughtfulness " is fostered by self-acquaintance, when prosecuted with the honest purpose of self-improvement. It leads to a wider sympathy with man than is bounded by the circle of acquaintances, of countrymen, or even of those now living. It conducts the thoughts backward along the...
Page 5 - The amount of strain on the mind and body of this eminent and faithful man must, at this period, have been immense. He had the pastoral care of one of the largest churches in the denomination. He taught the College classes, the Junior class in 1807-8, and the Junior and Senior classes in 1808-9 and 1809-10. He also, as a leading member of the Board of Trustees, was actively engaged in all the concerns of the College, especially in the efforts to collect funds for erecting the new building and causing...
Page 31 - The older I grow — and I now stand on the brink of eternity — the more comes back to me the first sentence in the catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes: 'What is the chief end of man? To glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever.
Page 31 - This is what ought to be called Natural Science, or Physiology, though those terms are hopelessly diverted from such a meaning ; and it includes all exact knowledge of natural fact, whether Mathematical, Physical, Biological, or Social. Kant has said that the ultimate object of all knowledge is to give replies to these three questions : What can I do? What ought I to do ? What may I hope for ? The forms of knowledge which I have enumerated, should furnish such replies as are within human reach, to...
Page 32 - The mission of the college is to diffuse the beneficent light of ideas. How can a lighthouse be selfish?" asked President Merrill Gates of Amherst. "The pressing want of our time...
Page 5 - City of New Brunswick and its vicinity, to the amount of $6,370, during the year 1807, and continued his efforts in that direction during the time the College was building. Such an accumulation of labors and responsibilities was more than human nature could bear. Like his predecessor, Dr. Hardenbergh, he was destined to spend and be spent in the cause of the College. No wonder that his face, as it looks down upon us from yonder frame in the chapel, has a sad and wearied look. No wonder that the cord...
Page 8 - 33, after which belabored for six years as Principal of Erasmus Hall, at Flatbush, Long Island. From 1839 to 1841 he preached at East New York, whence he removed to Albany and assumed charge ot the Third Reformed Church. In 1848 he returned to educational pursuits by accepting the Principalship of the Albany Academy. Three years later, in 1851, he was called to the Professorship of Oriental Literature in the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, and while in this position he filled, gratuitously,...
Page 4 - ... during a period of seven years. He then took charge of an Academy in Somerset County, Md., but after an experience of two years in teaching settled again over a church in Elizabethtown, NJ From 1787 to 1805 he preached in the Collegiate Church, New York, and while here he acted also as the President of Rutgers college, of which he had been elected a Trustee in 1787. His interest and wisdom in matters of education are also reflected in the fact that for twenty-one years previous to his death,...
Page 7 - He was the son of Frederick Frelinghuysen, a Member of the Continental Congress, who in 1777 resigned his seat to join the army, and served as captain of a volunteer company of artillery at Monmouth and Trenton, and during the remainder of the war as a captain of militia. In 1 793 he was chosen a Senator of the United States.