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We justly honor the great original founder Leonidas Polk and his
compeers. We bow in grateful remembrance of Bishop Charles Todd
Quintard who refounded and inaugurated its work in 1865-8
and now upon you the students of the University and the [?]
who have preceded you in these halls and upon the thousands who
will come after you rests the future of the University of the South

To illustrate its teaching, to give honor to its name and to fur
-ther its interests by every means in your power should be your aim and
purpose, and may many of you be privileged as I have been to
look back hereafter on the fruition of earnest hopes for its welfare to
which you have in part contributed

Had time permitted I should have been glad to pay a
merited tribute of praise to Dr Robt [Dabney?] Genl Gorgas, Genl Kirby Smith
Genl F.A. Shoup Dr [?] Harrison Dr McCrady, Vice Chancellor [?]
Hodgson and other illustrious names connected with the University
held in grateful remembrance by Sewanee