Excerpt from Class of 1870: Dartmouth College, 1917

Regarding the long delay in publishing this Report little need be said. Your Secretary deeply regrets it. He feels that there is some excuse for it. But it seems just as well not to waste words in apology.

As to the plan, or method, of the Report, it will readily be seen that the sketches are for the most part autobiographic. Such facts as have come to hand from other sources than the subject himself have been incorporated; and in some instances the sketch has been prepared wholly by the Secretary.

It has been assumed that each member of the Class has kept his earlier Reports, of 1874 and 1891. Sketches of mem bers who died before 1891 have therefore not been reproduced, and in the case of our other classmates most of the facts prior to that date have been omitted from this Report.

The Secretary has been much gratified to receive so gen eral a response to his request for photographs. The Report contains portraits of nearly every living member and of ten others. It will be deeply interesting to compare these pictures with those taken forty - seven years ago, so like in some instances, in others so Wonderfully different!

There has been no further thinning of our ranks, as far as your Secretary knows at this date (september 1, since Farnham's death last November.

I should be glad to present a complete list of the children of all the men of '70, but some have failed to send in the nec essary data, and my statistical table found on page 72 is only partial.

I feel that the sketches that make up this Report are lacking in the more personal and intimate facts. Many of you will say, I am quite sure, as you read this or that classmate's history, Why did he not give us something of his inner experience? Why did he not tell us what sort of philosophy of life had evolved out of his struggles, his successes, failures; and what ln his experience had seemed most worth while. I Some of you have done this, at least to some extent. Most of you have contented yourselves with a rather meagre account of the outside facts. It is partly the Secretary's fault. I ought to have urged you to be more personal and intimate. I ought to have urged (insisted?) that each of you contribute something to at least one sketch besides your own, out of your more or less intimate acquaintance with that particular classmate.

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