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Michigan State Education
The reading of this paper may have proved wearisome to my hearers, but the writing of it, as a tribute to the pioneers of Michigan has been a labor of love. For, whoever in the present, or the future, shall undertake to weave a finished garland for the brows of our pioneers will surely ascertain the fact that their devotion to education will ever constitute the brightest spray and most brilliant ornament in the coronal of their clustered virtues.
ADDRESS OF 0. A. JENISON, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS PRESENTING CERTAIN ARTICLES TO THE SOCIETY.
Read Februay 7, 1878.
Mr. President, officers and members of the Michigan State Pioneer Society :
Ladies and Gentlemen : No Roman citizen ever took a more just pride in proclaiming the fact of his nativity than I do at this time, in acknowledging myself a Michigan man. We embraced each other comparatively in our infancy, and no misunderstanding, no family jar has ever taken place between us. Never for once have I regretted " swapping " off the single-bladed ¦ York State knife for the double-bladed Michigan; and were it not for Michigan I would not make any appearance here at this time, but for the love I bear my adopted state. I feel as if I could not let this occasion pass without acknowledging my allegiance to her.
University of Michigan
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