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Excerpt from Speech of Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard University: Before the Board of Overseers of That Institution, February 25, 1845, on the Minority Report of the Committee of Visitation, Presented to That Board by George Bancroft, Esq., February 6, 1845
I am now, therefore, and intend henceforth to be, a private citizen. I have thought it proper, however, to keep back this publication, until my resignation was accepted, and my real posmon understood by the public; in order that it should be known by all to be made by me as a private citizen, on my sole responsibility, independently of official duties or connec tions, and prepared without the suggestion, consultation, or knowledge of any member of any body, party, or sect, literary, political, or religious. In conformity with the liberty afforded me by this new position in which I am placed, I have not hesitated to give to the several topics of the subjoined Speech, having a theological bearing, a development and directness of application which my present relations to society justify and enjoin.
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