u. HARVARD COLLEGE CLASS OF 1878 SECRETARY'S REPORT No. III 1892 PRINTED FOR THE USE OF THE CLASS NEW YORK CAMBRIDGE 1892 3 1 X 3 3 8 SECRETARY'S REPORT. To the Class of Seventy-eight: "HIS third Report is now placed at the disposal of the Class. ΤΗ It has been in contemplation for some time past, but has been unavoidably delayed from various causes: chiefly because the information necessary to make the records complete could not be got through lack of interest among a large portion of the Class, but in no small degree, since the requisite material has become sufficient to warrant its being classified and reduced to print, because of the delay consequent upon much time spent in so preparing this material that the Report may go into the hands of those members of the Class who care to examine it, in a fairly readable form. I would that it were better reading than it is likely to prove; but Harvard indifference and pressure of business and domestic cares were lamentably to the fore in too many cases, when members of the Class, hurriedly and grudgingly, wrote a few statistics in handwriting barely legible, in some instances positively illegible, and when several who are truly and innately modest never wrote anything. Fortunately, there is a nucleus in our Class that has a strong and abiding feeling of interest in the welfare of classmates and of the College, and which is instrumental in perpetuating our Class organization by its presence at our reunions and meetings, and by some well-digested and interesting contributions to our Class Reports. If, however, this nucleus has a weak point, it shows when writing for the Reports; for, as a rule, its dinners are better digested and even its contributions to the Class Fund are more liberal than its written communications. We are all well aware that most men who have been out of College |