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Excerpt from Duodecennial Record of the Class of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Seven, 1909: Princeton University; Number Four In finally submitting to the Class this product of its labors, your committee is humbly apologetic in view of the fact that two years have elapsed since the first letter was written, and the first Statis tical Blank filled out and returned at the behest of the Secretary. Few living men realize that it is a superhuman task to overcome the modesty of 'ninety-seven. It is this supreme modesty which has prolonged the business of editing, until those who read the titles of our Records may infer that we have substituted a six for the usual five-year period of Alumni census-taking. Fortunately, the pa tience - and the impatience - oi the Secretary were commensurate with the task. With his Fifty-seven varieties of requests he has finally succeeded in eliciting the necessary information to make a substantially accurate and complete account of the present status of the members of the Class - as complete as human means could make, without recourse to the Secret Service or the Pinkerton agencies. The committee regrets that the book is not complete as an epistolary record of the voices of the Class. It believes that the letters give an intimate, personal quality to the book, not otherwise attainable. In editing the letters received, impartiality and Christ ian charity have been exercised, but the restraint of these motives has not been felt in dealing with the men Whose biographies had to be furnished in spite of them. The committee desire-s to express its obligation to Pigeon Wrenn for his invaluable assistance in certain stages of the work. It hopes that the various features of the book will give pleasure and inspiration; and that The Record will express, in some degree, the great bond of fellowship which grows closer year by year, and links us all to the loved name of Princeton. 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.