Excerpt from A Beautiful Life and Its Associations It is not that I have anything to relate which you, my friends and fellow-students, do not already know; but the necessity for gathering together a little data, personal and otherwise, concerning those of whom I write, seemed impressed upon me. When I began the work, all of the presidents of the College were living, with one exception. In the short two years intervening, three of them have passed away. I have letters from each of them. The importance of time is shown in this instance, as it has been in many others. 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.