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The most perfect unanimity seemed to prevail in re-
gard to the appropriate selection of the Cumberland
Plateau as the site of this contemplated seat of learning.
All the advantages of a temperate climate, numerous
springs of pure water, a productive soil, abundance and
variety of timber, inexhaustible beds of sandstone,
limestone and coal, seem here to be concentrated within
36 hours' ride of the Seaboard Cities of the Sunny South.
Though 2100 feet above the tide level, it is not a moun-
tain summit, but a gently rolling table land two or three
miles wide at this point, and affording as easy a railroad
route for 150 miles to the North East, as any of the val-
lies beneath. We doubt not that the generous aid of
Southern gentlemen will cause this favoured spot to
gather here the richest stores of wisdom, science, art,
and literature, that it may become, as its founders in-
tend, the glory of our land and the upbuilder of the
Church of Christ. BENE.

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PROGRAMME OR ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS TO BE
OBSERVED AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-
STONE OF THE "UNIVERSITY OF THE
SOUTH," SEWANEE, OCT. 10TH, 1860.*

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A Procession, consisting of the Board of Trustees, per-
sons specially invited to take part in the Ceremonies,
Clergymen and Citizens, shall be formed under the com-
mand of the Chief Marshal, Maj. A. M. Rutledge, proceed
from the Executive Office, and thence march to the site
of the principal building, in the following order:

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*The programme and order of procession and service used on
the occasion, was written out in full in the hand-writing of Bishop
Otey.

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1. Citizens.
2. Trustees.
3. Clergymen and Ministers of Religion.
4. Persons specially invited, as the Orator of the Day,
and other speakers,
5. The Bishops in double file, and according to se-
niority.

On arriving at the site of the principal building, the
Chancellor, or Senior Bishop, shall either himself or
some one named by him, begin the services by reciting
the following sentences:

"It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early,
and so late take rest, and eat the bread of carefulness,"
Ps. cxxvii. 3.

"Except the Lord build the house, the labor is but
lost that built it," verse 1.

"Except the Lord keeps the city, the watchman
waketh but in vain," verse 2.

"Thou shall remember the Lord thy God, for it is he
that giveth power to get wealth." Deut. viii. 18.

"Ye shall diliflently keep the commandments of the
Lord your God, and his testimonies and his statutes,
which he hath commanded thee." vi. 17.

"Thou shalt diligently teach them unto thy children,
and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thy house,
and when thou walkest in the way, and when thou liest
down, and when thou risest up." vi. 7.

"This commandment have we from God, that he who
loveth God, loveth his brother also." I John iv. 21.

"By this we know that we love the children of God,
when we love God and keep his commandments." I
John v. 2.

Then shall another Bishop say the Exhortation follow-
ing:

Christian Brethern, Friends and Fellow Citizens:--It
is decent and agreeable to the precepts of Holy Scripture,
that in all our undertakings, we should beseech Almighty