Download or read book Prize Essay and Lectures written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prize Essay and Lectures: Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction, at New Haven, Conn., August, 1853; Including the Journal of Proceedings, and a List of the Officers Prof. Silliman, Sen., in behalf Of the Faculty Of Yale College, made a brief address, expressing his sense Of the importance Of the work in which the Institute is engaged, and of the value of a general diffusion of knowledge, as shown by this country when contrasted with those.of Europe. 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.