Sixty Years Of Princeton Class Of 77

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Download or read book Princeton, Sixty-Three written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Princeton, Sixty-Three: Fortieth-Year Book of the Members of the Class of 1863 This Book originated at the reunion of 1903. Circular had been issued from Philadelphia, March 19th, preceding, by Dr. S. S. Stryker, Class President, and Professor J. W. Patton acting as Secretary, inviting the Members to the Class to the Fortieth-year Dinner at the Princeton Inn on the Monday of Commencement week, June 8th., and likewise to lunch at University Hall on the Saturday previous, and to take part in the Procession to the Ball Game, which is the feature of that day. There was a good response to this, some twenty-one of our number in all being on the Campus during Commencement time. Some account of these occasions and the names of those who were present, will be found under the sketch of Holmes. In the course of the Banquet Professor Patton was requested to continue to act as Class Secretary, in the room of the lamented Samuel B. Huey who died in 1901. The proposal was then made by Gen. Reeder that we have a Class Book, which was seconded by Prof. Patton, who proposed my name as Class Historian. With warm assurances of co-operation from all sides the project was started. The honor was quite unlooked for, but too gratifying to be refused, and I undertook the work gladly. I had not a shred of preparation, however, and had even quite forgotten a little collection of Class and College ana saved up in post collegiate days, but laid by and buried in the dust of many many years. A thick packet of sad and defaced envelopes, stamped by the postal authorities "Unclaimed, Return to Sender," turned over to me by Prof. Patton as the fruits of his endeavors to reach our Classmates, suggested melancholy thoughts and did not encourage hopes of a fruitful correspondence. In fact, though not dead myself, I had a vague impression that I should find but few to contribute materials for a Book, - which accounts for some blundering in the Circulars of Announcement and Inquiry which I hastened to send out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.