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Excerpt from The Twenty-Ninth Secretary's Report of the Class of 1866 of Harvard College: June, 1930
He writes: I fancy you think I have been very lazy in not having answered vour letter in regard to the Class Book. I have not been quite so lazy as you probably think. I have tried a dozen times to write something worthy to be published under your editorship, and I have spoiled a lot of good paper, but without success. The fact is that my 'rollo' days are past, and I have not much to tell my friends here of my adventures. The past year, as far as anything that would interest my classmates is concerned, has been rather barren. I have lived most of the time as usual in Rome under the beneficent rule of Signor Mus solini. I suppose I have become a good member of the Fascisti family. However, that is a subject not to dilate upon. I have had thoughts of the class constantly in mind, especially of Storey and Emerson, for both of whom I have never ceased to have great respect and fondness since my Harvard days. As I have been living in a country where I could drink what I pleased with out offending the law, I have often wished that some of my class mates might turn up and help me to dispose of some Class of 1866 whiskey which I have saved for many years in hopes that it would go down the proper throats, but it is not too late for that yet. However, I expect to be with you on Commencement Day, where I hope I shall meet as many of the members of the Class as have survived Time's ruthless scythe. Then I can tell all these things much better than I can write them. Meanwhile, I send them all my love and best wishes, with the hope that we may all meet in undiminished numbers in 1931. 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.
