Creighton University: Reminiscences of the First Twenty-Five Years (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Creighton University: Reminiscences of the First Twenty-Five YearsThe scope of this work requires us to go further back than the year which marked the beginning of the College, for in no other way can the circumstances and difficulties, attending its opening and progress be properly measured. Hence, a preliminary account of the settlement of Nebraska and of the early condition of the Church in Omaha and its vicinity, becomes necessary. A contrast is needful to enable us to appreciate the re markable achievements of a quarter of a century. Society was exceedingly crude, even long after Nebraska had become a State, education was at a low ebb, opportunities of every kind were lim ited, and the wonder is that our people and institutions so soon outgrew those conditions and developed so marvelously within the memory of men still in the prime of life.Whenever possible, I have preferred to let documents tell their own story and have given the preference to the narrations of those who were eye-witnesses of the events and knew person ally the circumstances about which they speak.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.