William Plumb Bacon
Published: 2018-02
Total Pages: 228
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Excerpt from Fifth Biographical Record of the Class of Fifty-Eight, Yale University: 1858 1908 The Secretary was officially floating idly upon a sea of contentment, believing that '58 was gorged and would call for no more class records, when he awoke and found it all a dream. In 1865, in the first class record, he included the non-graduates. He then concluded that the duties of a Secretary, especially because the numbers graduating were larger and increasing, could not be properly done if non-graduates were included. He therefore omitted them in the next three records. In July, 1908, he yielded to a second earnest appeal from the Secre tary of the University to secure for him the addresses of the living non graduates and secured them all. When the class in June, 1908, asked the Secretary to issue a record supplementary to that of 1897, he concluded to supplement also the non graduate part of the record of 1865. The result is before you. In brief, the whole non-graduate record is in the 1865 and the 1908 records, and the whole graduate record is in the 1897 and the 1908 records. Thus practically closes a class secretarial career of fifty years, which has probably been unequalled in duration. 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.
