A History of the Class of 1854 in Dartmouth College

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Excerpt from A History of the Class of 1854 in Dartmouth College: Including Col. Haskell's Narrative of the Battle of Gettysburg The Class of 1854 has always contemplated and desired, in due time, a Class History. Before we graduated, Mussey, the secretary, issued questions, the answers to which would furnish materials for it, and all through his long service of almost forty years, he gathered memoranda for that use. At our meeting in 1885, in New York, the matter received much attention, and we separated, looking for an early issue of the hook. But Massey's lamented death cut off any hope that he would give us the result of his labors, and the Class met in 1894, rich with a store of material, accumulated by the secretary, with the effective co-operation of Eaton and Godding, and confronted with the question, how to utilize it. The result was the appointment of Hazen and Speare as secretary and treasurer, and as publishing committee, with instructions to make the best use practicable of the materials committed to our care, and to print the Class History. The result we here submit to classmates, in the hope that, if they do not find it all that they have looked for, as we know they will not, they will accept the result as measurably satisfactory and at least a partial fulfilment of their plan. Classmates who were at the meeting in 1891, will remember that we accepted the charge with great reluctance. We are busy men, and other duties have left us scant time for the editing of this record. Such as it is, we submit it to their charitable judgment. It has been a labor of love, and we cannot send it out without our testimony to the pleasure it has given us. It has been a joy to come again into touch with classmates of so long ago, to revive the memory of other days, to review the work which classmates have done, the battles they have fought, the good record which many of them have made. Some have finished their course, and their record is on high. We linger over their names with a tenderness not to be put in words. Not many years before we, qui supersunt adhuc, shall join them. Which one of us will outlive his sixty comrades? How many of us would choose, if we might, to be that veteran? 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.