Excerpt from The Second Triennial Report of the Secretary of the Class of 1873 of Harvard College: Commencement, 1879 Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to remove from among us our beloved classmate, Calvin Edward Abbott, Resolved, That we deeply mourn his loss and deplore the early termination of a life so full of promise, but recognize in his death the hand of an inscrutable Providence. 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.