Daniel Coit Gilman Born : July 6, 1831 Died : October 13, 1908 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Daniel Coit Gilman It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide. Daniel Coit Gilman university lectures duty He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence. Daniel Coit Gilman atheism belief religious