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The public inauguration of James C. Welling, LL. D., as President of the Columbian College, took place on the evening of November 6, 1871, in the Congregational Church, corner of Tenth and Gstreets, Washington, D. C. The exercises were opened with prayer by the Rev. James H. Cuthbert, D.D., after which the Rev. George W. Samson, D.D., delivered a Farewell A ddress, as the retiring President of the College. An Ode, written for the occasion by the Rev. Stephen P. Hill, D.D., was then sung, upon which the Hon. John A. Bolles, LL. D., Vice-P resident of the Board of Trustees of the College, delivered to the newly-elected President the keys, symbolical of his ofhce, and accompanied their presentation with an A ddress, at the close of which he formally introduced Dr. Welling, who thereupon proceeded to deliver his Inaugural Discourse. The exercises were closed with a Doxology, sunoby the audience, and with a Benediction pronounced by the Rev. Cleland K. Nelson, D.D., Vice-P resident of St. John s College, at A nnapolis, Md. The following pages contain the Presentation Address of Mr. Bolles and the Inaugural Discourse of President Welling, as published by request of the Executive Committee of the Board ofT
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