“The time [will] come when a thousand students [will] be assembled on the hill for the purpose of seeing an education.”

—  David Jewett Waller, Sr.

1875, as attributed in Preacher, Entrepreneur: Rev. D.J. Waller Sr. by William M. Ballie (2011)

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