Excerpt from The Third Report of the Secretary of the Class of 1862, of Harvard College: June, 1875

We have parted with two of our number since the date of the last Re port. John richard dennett, our Class Poet, died at Westborough, November 6, 1874; and henry horton mcburney, our chief-marshal and the stroke-oar of our Class boat, died at Bournemouth, England, Feb ruary 20, 1875. You will at this meeting express, as classmates, your appreciation of their worth and sorrow at their loss. Their completed histories will be added to the Class Records, and their memories will be cherished by every member of the Class of '62.

As our number lessens year by year, the interest in Class matters grows stronger, and classmates have asked for the preservation in more perma nent form of some of our unprinted records. The reports of our Senior Class Meeting and our Senior Class Supper have been printed here, and an account of our Class Day and Commencement Exercises would have been added but for the desire to keep the pages limited. Another Re port may properly contain these and more, if classmates will assist. Would it not be worth while to save, before it is too late, all the little mat ters of the history of the four years we spent together at Harvard? Of the entrance examinations, which we struggled through before some students now in college were born; of the Freshman F oot-ball Game; of the old Chapel in University, and our removal to the new Appleton Chapel; of the building of the Gymnasium; the Class and College Re gattas; the Inauguration of President Felton, and his death; the garri son of the Arsenal; our college scrapes, exhibitions, mock-parts, and graduation, - all matters in which the Class of '62 pars filerumgue tom fuz'z' we have only our wearing memories to remind us. Let each one, as soon as he receives this Report, write to the Secretary what he remembers of each or any of these things, and in the next Report we may have a chapter of our history, which every year will make more inter esting, and the constant and rapid changes of our University make more strange.

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