Excerpt from The Seventh Secretary's Report of the Class of 1866, of Harvard College: June, 1881 June, 1886 Here is our seventh Report. Its imperfections and short comings, so far as I am responsible for them, I trust you will attribute to lack of time, on my part, rather than of good-will. Your answers to my circular were, as usual, somewhat meagre, but it was pleasant to have all but four of our ninety-seven sur yiying graduates send some answer, however short. 1 wish to thank particularly those who wrote me letters. Not only for their contributions to the Report, but also for their kindly expressions of regard to me personally; they gave me great pleasure, and I am sorry to acknowledge them only in this general way. Our death rate continues very low; but this is small consola tion to the friends of E. H. Clark, Holden and Otis. Who never more will join us at Commencement-time. Une. Hundred and ninety six children have been born to the ('lass more than twice the present number of us survivors. It may cheer the hearts of the miserable little band of twenty bachelors to know that the girl baby to whom the Class cradle was given is well on her way to nineteen years, and that next year will find five other daughters of the Class eighteen years old; whether the hearts of these young ladies will be much cheered by the twenty bachelors is another question. 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.