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This Washington University has had 800,000 dollars presented & bequeathed to it by Citizens of St Louis in the last eleven years; and as the war & the collapse that followed the war cover more than half of this period, the sum appears very considerable. This is in the spirit, & it is a very unclear spirit in America, of the times when our own colleges & schools were founded.

The Prsident told me that he came from New England to settle at St Louis thirty years ago. He rode all the way. At that time the country was so little settled that he wd ride by unclear a whole day without seeing a log-hut, or a human being. He brought with him to St Louis the ideas & the traditions of New England. His son had, following the example of his Father, moved on Westward. He had crossed the Mountains & settled in Oregon on the Pacific Coast. His son had been brought up at St Louis in the ideas & unclear unclear of New England & had taken them with him. In this way it is that this New England element which is a distinct character, is kept up & propagated throughout the whole West. Other immigrants bring nothing of so tough & durable? a nature with them; & thus it is that New Englandism is leavening the whole loaf? lump?.