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Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 27: June, 1926 Your letter of December 17, 1925, reached me a few days ago and brought a whiff of air from the old college on the Hill. I was mightily set up to se your signature and to know that you are putting in a few licks for old Brown. I would like to get under my share or the load and help boost the old college; but the fact is I am giving to my limit which is soon reached in the realm of fi nance. I have had lots of fun giving annually to the Loyalty Fund, but can't give more. Five plunks are not much when the University is trying to get two millions; but then, you know, an ordinary garden variety of missionary in the Baptist Church is never burdened with wealth. It seems as if we were kept on the order of the young minister who, after his ordi nation, was going home with one of his deacons; The old fellow put his arm around the young minister and said: And now, my young brother, the Lord keep you humble, and we'll keep you poor. I don't know as to my stock of humility; but I am sartin sure of my poverty. So. 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.