Excerpt from Secretary's Report, No. II, 1884 A few who graduated are lost, as the records will show but several who were lying hid showed themselves after repeated appeals from me. Of members of the Class who did not graduate, the proportion of those lost and hiding is of course much larger, for many, who stayed with us but a few weeks or months, felt that the ties that bound them to the Class were so slight that they were broken when they left the College and Cambridge and then, too, it is hardly reasonable for the Secretary of our Class to expect communications from many of those who were ever connected with the glorious Class of seventy-seven (of whom we had a goodly sprinkling) when they can report them selves to the Secretary of that Class, though, thanks to Mr. Russell, seventy-seven's Secretary, 1 am enabled to make my records much more complete in this direction than they would otherwise be. I suppose there are some among us who are so innately modest that they dislike the idea of any printed mention of themselves, and this I judge to be the reason why some answers to my inquiries were delayed so long, and others are still wanting. There are some names, that, closely identified with our Class in most respects, I am against my will obliged to place among Members not Graduates, but the Faculty had to draw the line somewhere, though I can but think that they were feeling out of sorts when they drew it. It may be a surprise to some to learn, that, though we have thirty six lawyers among our graduates, and fifteen among those who did not graduate with us, we are considerably below the average of the classes near us, in lawyers. Seventy-six has 37 per cent among its graduates, and a total of 32 per cent, including all members. Seventy - Seven has, graduates 31 per cent, total 26 per cent. Seventy-nine has. 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.