1866 Fredericton Encaenia
Alumni Oration
Delivered by: Fisher, Charles
Content
"Alumni Oration"Head Quarters (4 July 1866). (UA Case 67a, Box 1)
(Due to lack of space the encaenial oration was not printed in full)
Professor d’Avray read the oration, a sound, practical address on the benefits of a collegiate education.
The alumni oration was delivered by Hon. Charles Fisher, who was chosen as being the oldest graduate of the university, and gave an ill-prepared and rambling history of the first settlers of the province, and of the foundation of the university.
Toward the close, he wrapped himself in his prophet’s mantle, and expressed a hope that the university in the future, when Confederation was consummated, would, from the deep savannahs of the Saskatchewan, from the frozen morasses of Newfoundland, from the gorges of the Rocky mountains, the prairies of the West, and the golden shores of the Pacific, call its alumni to its encaenia.
(Due to lack of space the encaenial oration was not printed in full)
Professor d’Avray read the oration, a sound, practical address on the benefits of a collegiate education.
The alumni oration was delivered by Hon. Charles Fisher, who was chosen as being the oldest graduate of the university, and gave an ill-prepared and rambling history of the first settlers of the province, and of the foundation of the university.
Toward the close, he wrapped himself in his prophet’s mantle, and expressed a hope that the university in the future, when Confederation was consummated, would, from the deep savannahs of the Saskatchewan, from the frozen morasses of Newfoundland, from the gorges of the Rocky mountains, the prairies of the West, and the golden shores of the Pacific, call its alumni to its encaenia.
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