Address delivered at the opening of the Columbian College in the District of Columbia, January 9, 1822

Notes

Staughton, the College’s president, calls attention (pp. 27-28) to the Jewish tradition of education, be it a school, academy, or seminary environment. "It is an interesting fact, that several of their most eminent teachers, Maimonides, Aben-Ezra, Jarchi, Rabbi Nathan, and Kimchi, flourished a very short time before the founding of European colleges." Note also the sentiments expressed on p. 31, "Some of the Rabbis tell us, that it was common when officers were set apart to public, or more private stations, for the ceremonies of inauguration to take place by the side of running water: as if to express a hope that their services, like the stream, might refresh, and fertilize, and continue." Shoemaker 10336.