George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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AN APPRECIATION T HEJcity of Waskingtor and its educational features offer George Washington Univer- sity every opportunity to become the great national university that George Washington advo- cated and that James Monroe antxipated in the founding of our school, “The College is in immediate connection with a sta e of society vdhere life is seen in its almost every possible phase, 1 ' : ‘ where there appears not only eVery quickening influence to the mind but where the moulding process may be conducted under all the advan- tages of a daily influence connected with the excellencies and defects of every class and charac- ter of public men, H ’ v?here the teacher is not confined to his text and reference hooks, but may exhibit in almost eVery department the practical illustration and application of the studies pursued, ,!b where social life in its different classes and the Legislature and the Judiciary of our Government are open for the improvement of the student, v?hile under the guidance of his teachers, where the most Valuable Libraries and the richest collections from nature and art may aid his investigations.” Inaugural Address of REV. JOSEPH GETCHELL BINNET. D. D. President of Columbian College. 1855 59 n

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The stranger enters Washington through a magnificent gateway of marble and gold, and steps out upon the grand Union Station Plaza to get his first view of the Nation s great Capital And vdhat an impression !

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Here ke gets kis first vision o Battle-scarred it is, f the majestic Capitol — the Heart of the KJation, but all the more imposing because of it. 12