meet again, none will forget the days spent here; each will pre serve for his classmates, teachers and friends the highest esteem. When we think that we may perhaps grasp each others' hand to day for the last time in this life, that when again we meet some familiar face may be missing, some voice unheard, we are over come with emotion ; the hand trembles, the eye is dimmed, the voice fails for utterance. Classmates, farewell I June 11, 1902. ADDRESS OF JUDGE B. F. KELLER, '76, BEFORE THE ALUMNI ASSO- Fellow-Members of the Alumni Association : It is with a great deal of sincere pleasure that I arise to open this annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the Pennsylvania State College, and to welcome you all to the same,—sincere pleas ure because of the fond recollections of other and earlier days which such a meeting always evokes in the mind and heart of an alumnus returning to his Alma Mater; sincere pleasure, in this particular instance, because it enables me, by my presence, to testify to my appreciation of the honor conferred upon me at your last meeting, in selecting me as the President of your body for the year; and sincere pleasure, in its truest and best sense, be cause this meeting marks another milestone in the onward prog ress of your Alma Mater and mine. These meetings, in and of themselves, are sweet and pleasant, and well worth the travel for the joy of renewed fellowship with friends and classmates of days gone by, and of meeting younger men and women who stand in places once filled by us. * * * * * * * * While the social feature is not lacking in the meetings of our organization, yet the purpose, or at least one great purpose of the association, is, as I take it, to do what we can to further the in terests and forward the work of our beloved Alma Mater. * * * * * * * * There are many ways in which we can do this. Those of us who are blessed with sons and daughters can send them back here CIATION, JUNE TO, 1902. (Abridged.)
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