Memoirs of Anne C.L. Botta,: written by her friends. With selections from her correspondence and from her writings in prose and poetry.

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beautiful, especially as it was surrounded with flowing gray hair.
At the close of the lecture I was presented to the
lady, and found that she was the object of my early
admiration. I had never before seen her, and this was
one of the rare cases in which an object of early
admniration met later in life has come up fully to
expectations.
Then began for me one of the most precious friendships of my life; one, indeed, which I have ever
since regarded as one of the best things that life has
given me. It came at a time most opportune, for
never have I felt the need of friends more than just
at that period.
It was in the earliest years of Cornell University.
Into the founding and early development of that institution I had thrown myself forgetful of nearly all
things else. From the first, its struggle for existence
had been severe. The fact that I strove to make it a
University rather than a college of the old type; the
fact, too, that I had placed in its charter a clause
making sectarian control of it forever impossible,these two things brought upon it and upon me an
opposition untiring and apparently overwhelming.
The strong friends of every one of the twenty colleges
in the State of New-York and of many other colleges
in other States, their graduates, and especially those
in the pulpit and press, seemed to become more and
more embittered against us; many who had stood
by the institution in the beginning were swept away
by this storm of opposition.
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