Excerpt from Secretary's Second Report, 1914: Harvard College Class of 1908 The Class of Nineteen Hundred and Eight hereby adds one more volume to its growing list of publications. This is primarily a list of addresses issued to help our widely scattered class of seven hundred men to keep in touch with one another. As such it will fulfil no mean destiny. To this statistical information the Class has seen fit to add some personal narratives. The vitality and worth of these depend largely upon their intimate revelation of the authors. Therefore the secretary has firmly refrained from writing accounts of men who have not replied. The bulk of the Class found time to comply with our request, based as it was on a tradition of long standing. The accounts vary greatly in length and in substance. This was inevitable at first. Probably the variation in length will always exist. It is hoped, however, that the variation in substance will not be so great in our next Report four years hence, after the Class has realized the true value of the fuller and more intimate histories. There is no man in 1908 who will not read these little stories with keen interest. Here he may read of wanderings in many lands, of circumnavigating the globe, of adventures in every realm of human knowledge and endeavor. As in all times, the motive force has been, now pure unrest, now the lure of gold, and now a Lady's Eyes. But in the end no work has seemed to be too great and none too humble to include a member of the Class of 1908! Most seriously, however, this is no casual record of achievement. There is surely much here to ponder over. There is the story of men who have had the vision to see and the courage to act when a change of work was right, who have had grit to push forth into new fields when they realized they had chosen badly. This perhaps is one of the greatest lessons Harvard teaches. 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.