Joseph Earl Sheffield: A Commemorative Discourse Delivered by President Porter, June 26, 1882 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Joseph Earl Sheffield: A Commemorative Discourse Delivered by President Porter, June 26, 1882

Within the last college year, death has removed from our University the most liberal of all its numerous benefactors, whose name will be forever attached to one of its most prominent and important departments. It seems eminently appropriate that on this anniversary some public recognition should be made of his distinguished generosity, and some formal expression should be given to our feelings of honor and gratitude. These duties have been assigned to myself as in some sort an official service. I must however discharge them in another spirit. Our deceased benefactor was my neighbor and friend. As such he was familiarly if not intimately known to me as a man of peculiar and marked characteristics founded on positive and earnest principles and aims. As such he was fully understood by but few of the many who wondered at his enterprise and were blessed by his generosity.

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