Excerpt from Annual Report of the President to the Corporation of Brown University: June 18, 1891 While one and another of these courses might doubtless be quashed without vitally weakening the system as a means of training for the Bachelorship, still, speaking generally, the range of our work is on the whole not greater than it ought to be were all purpose toward university development to be renounced. Whatever our policy, we certainly do none too much teaching in Philosophy, the Classics, Mathematics, History, Political and Social Science, in any of the Sciences Of Nature, or in the Modern Languages. If it were thought best to cut Off the Semitic and the Engineering branches now offered, a teaching force equivalent to that engaged in these is still necessary properly to round out our curriculum in Classical and Romance Philology. 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.