Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Decennial Record of the Class of 1889, Vol. 4: Princeton University; 1889-1899 Classmates - Your Secretary sends forth this collection of Eighty nine Tales trusting that you will each gain as much pleasure and profit from its perusal as has he from its compilation. At first glance these letters may seem to furnish little more than glimpses of the footsteps and fortunes of more or less familiar friends. Closer scrutiny, however, will convince the most uninterested that there is much more contained between the leaded lines than is condensed on the printed page. That the unwrit ten as well as the written may be sought and found by every reader is the earnest wish of the editor. With this end in view, he has endeavored not only to preserve intact the phraseology of each letter as it has come to him, but also to present entire the personality of each writer as it has been seen by him. If, therefore, there is anything in this volume which is worthy of praise, it is due to the members of the Class who have enlightened us as to the substance as well as to the sequence of their lives. If it contains anything which is deserving of blame, it should be laid at the door of the redactor, who has obscured where he hoped to make plain or has misled where he hoped to guide. 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.