William Chauncey Pond As noted on the From the Librarian page, Pond delivered this address at Bangor Seminary's Centennial celebration in 1916. The program as printed calls for reminiscences. Reminiscences and history are not equivalent terms.
History is scientific.
In the introduction to his Gospel, Luke gives us in a few words the very elements of the science of historical research. But reminiscences are remembrances. They are thus personal and they have two disadvantages. One is a narrow scope. I am called to give reminiscences of the Seminary prior to the Civil War.