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The toast which I have now to propose to you is the Prosperity of this Institution.
It stands unrivalled in any country, and ought to command our warmest sympathies, as providing for the exigencies of those who, following the call of Genius, and forgetting every other consideration, pursue merely the cultivation of the human mind and science. What can then be more proper for us than gratefully to remember the benefits derived from their disinterested exertions, and cheerfully to contribute to their wants?
I conclude with the ardent wish that the object for which we have this day met will be answered in the most ample and generous way.
“Prosperity to this Institution.”