Excerpt from Harvard College Class of 1897: Second Report, June, 1903 Now that the volume of our achievements is ready to be bound between its final covers, I wish to say a few words in connection with its creation, and in explanation of its contents. It has taken from August of 1902 to the present time to garner the material for this report, but the showing, on the whole, is a good one, 600 men out of a total of 666 having replied in some form to the official appeals. The slow growth of the report has made it impossible to have every statement up to date, and some addresses may not be all that fancy paints them; but the primary effort has been to procure as much exact information about as many men as possible, as a matter of permanent record as well as of present human interest. The replies sent in have had to be edited in order to group the information into an orderly scheme, and if any man is misquoted or misconstrued the Secretary asks his charitable judgment. 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.