Excerpt from Alumnae Recorder: June, 1912 A year ago, when the honor of being your president first came to me, my mind skipped over the twelve months that would bring us to this occasion, ' bringing with it the ordeal, for me at least, of the president's address. I have never been accused of a lack of mere talk, but I fear the literary style and contents of my remarks this afternoon will hardly measure up to the dignity of the title of address. During the past year, the office of president has carried with it few duties; for luncheons which were planned had to be given up and. The recital given later was most successfully planned under the direction of the vice president. Yet the months have been unusually busy ones for me, as my entire time has been devoted to-one of the many forms of activity, in the line of social service, that exist in the city. 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.