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404 -VASSAE PEMALE COLLEGE.
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subsequently repaid from the avails of teaching , or otherwise . Preference should be given to beneficiaries of decided promise—
such as are likely to distinguish themselves in some particular department or pursuit , and especially to those who propose to
. engage in the teaching of the young as a profession . I desire that the College may be provided with commodious
buildings , containing ample apartments for public instruction , and at the same time affording to the inmates the safety , quiet , privacy ,
and purity of the family . And now , gentlemen of the Board of Trustees , I transfer to your
possession and ownership the real and personal property which I have set apart for the accomplishment of my designs . I beg
permission to add a brief and general expression of my views in regard to the most judicious use and management of the funds .
After the College edifice has been erected and furnished with all needful aids and appliances for imparting the most perfect education
of body , mind , and heart , it is my judgment and wish that the amount remaining in hand should be safely investedto serve as a
principal , only the annuaj . income of which should be , expended on the preservation of the buildings and grounds , the support of the
faculty , the replenishing and enlarging of the library , cabinet , art gallery , & c , and in adding to the capital stock ; so that the College ,
instead of being impoverished and tending to decay from year to yearshall always contain within itself the elements of growth and
expansion , , of increasing power , prosperity , and usefulness . In conclusion , gentlemen , this enterprise , which I regard as the
last great work of my life , I commit to you as a sacred trust , which I feel assured you will discharge with fidelity and
uprightness , with wisdom and prudence , with ability and energy . It is my fervent desire that I may live to see the Institution in
successful operation ; and if God shall give me life and strength , I shall ladly employ my best faculties in co-operating with you to >
g secure the full and perfect consummation of the work before us . _Potjghkeepsie , February 26 t / i , 1861 . M . Vassab .
The Rev . Dr . Hague , of New York City , accompanied the resolutions passed at the first meeting of the Board by the following
address : — _" In offering these resolutions to this Board of Trustees , it may be
proper for me to say a few words expressive of my convictions as to the naturethe dignityand the scope of the great trust that is now
, , committed to our hands . _" The statements that have just been read byMr . Vassar , unfolding
his cherished aims in relation to the establishment of a Female College in this citythe munificence of his provisionsand the
breadth of his plan , , signalize an important step of progress , in the advancement of intellectual culture throughout the country . It is
adapted to call forth the sympathetic regards of the whole people in _.
404 -Vassae Pemale College.
404 -VASSAE PEMALE _COLLEGE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 404, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/44/
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