Excerpt from Famous Men of a Famous Class How the memories come flocking back as we think over our college days! How the old faces appear again, not as they are to-day, but young, boyish, with life all ahead! How the blue lines of mountains and hills rise before us, beautiful and clear, as on the day when we first saw them, when we rumbled over from "Hamp!" The sharply serrated ridge of the Holyoke range, and the great, rounded masses of the Pelham Hills and Mount Toby are still before our eyes! What a world of mystery and magic lives beyond the Notch! Over in another direction hangs the smoke of Northampton, - Mecca, with Smith College as its Kaaba! What walks and talks! What drives! What dances! What wonderful days! What a world of boyhood dreams we lived in twenty-five years ago! No to-day, for we live it all over, day after day. We read over the names of our Classmates, and know something that is still as fresh and strong as it was twenty-five years ago, even stronger and dearer, the power of friendship. Friendships began when our struggling band of Freshmen came to Amherst in 1891. Friendships have continued with the years. They, like the hills and mountains of Amherst, survive, something lasting and touched with eternity. It is in the spirit of friendship that this volume ha? been prepared. In the midst of the busy world of life, every one in the Class will enjoy sitting by himself and reading the sketches that bring back old days, old scenes, old memories and strengthen old affections. Come back to Amherst in June, to the Twenty-fifth Reunion, reach out your hand to your fellow Classmates, and feel once more the thrill of Amherst, of youth, and of lasting friendship. 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.