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 before. Those events represent the transplanting to this soil of a race, of institutions of justice and of means of enlightenment as good as the best that man through the struggle and effort of countless ages had succeeded in developing. The setting up here of an American home, of a court of common law, and of an institution of higher education where before there had been but the Indian tepee, the but slightly tempered rule of might and the utter lack of educational activity—these are surely worth commemorating.