Excerpt from An Address at the Reopening of the Pardee Hall, Lafayette College: November 30, 1880 WE meet to-day as friends of education, and, therein, lovers of our country and of our race, to celebrate the completion of this Hall of Science - pardee hall - and to honor its founder. 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.