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 To the friends whose names we have mentioned who have assisted us in the general work, and to the local committees whose names will be preserved in the records of the University, belongs largely the credit of this wonderful success. In the name of Fisk University, and in behalf of the race represented by the Jubilee Singers, we return sincere thanks for the help they have rendered.

To perpetuate for ever in the University the memory of this visit and the kindness and sympathy of the Dutch people, the square of ground upon which Livingstone Hall is to be built will be given the name of Netherlands Square.

But Netherlands Square will have a higher significance and greater value as an educating force and a source of inspiration in the University, for it will perpetually speak to all coming generations of our students of "William the Silent," Prince of Orange, and of the heroic struggle, under his leadership, of the Dutch people for civil and religious liberty, concerning which, one of our American historians has said, "history has no record of a resistance more terrible, or a triumph more glorious, than theirs."

E. M. CRAVATH, President of Fisk University.

, 18, Adam Street, Strand, London. April 20, 1877.

UNWIN BROTHERS, MUSIC AND GENERAL PRINTERS, CHILWORTH AND LONDON.