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Excerpt from The University Record: The One Hundred and Fifteenth Annual Commencement; July, 1910 President Venable then introduced Dr. William Lyon Phelps, professor of English at Yale, as Phi Beta Kappa Speaker. On account of the unusual charm of Dr. Phelps's address, it is very much to be regretted that it cannot be given in full. It will have to suffice to say that no address delivered at the University in recent years has been characterized by such perfect Simplicity, richness of human experience, fullness of thought; for he spoke without manuscript and only the following press notices are avail able to indicate the nature and content of his remarks. 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.