Gentlemen It is now some 00 months since we last assembled in this room. To me it seems but half its number. Time flys[sic] swiftly as age advances and intervening topics engross our minds, and for these we have certainly not lacked. Just 0 years ago tomorrow we staked out the ground for the foundation of your College and which was singuliar[singularly] memmoralised[sic] by the Fall of Fort Sumter. Then or soon thereafter hostilities of war began in open conflicts, which has spred[sic]