Excerpt from The Class of 1895, Princeton University, Vol. 4: Decennial Record, 1895-1905 Committee determined under what scheme of allotment the various entries shall be assigned to the ten classes. These de tails are secondary to the great facts that a plan for financing the dormitory has been agreed upon, and that the building will be under way when we go back to Princeton for our De cennial. So now that you have read my enclosure, and have admired (i hope) the preliminary sketches the architect has prepared, I come to the real business of this circular and ask: What are you going to do about it? For you must know that as a member of the Dormitory Committee - moreover, as Secretary of it - I have solemnly pledged the Class of '95 to raise the sum of when we have actually in the bank only In times past I touched you - but never, I think, for such an amount as this. One of the joys of Next Year will be to know that I may write new and then without asking you for money; and I fancy the rejoicing will be mutual. But now that I've made the plunge I can only chatter: C-c-come in b-b-boys! The water's f-f-fine! You can never help me out from the shore; but if you really love me you'll jump right in up to your neck so that I may have good company when I walk up to the bank! 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.

Excerpt from The Class of 1895, Princeton University, Vol. 6: 25th Year Record, 1895 1920 Our Decennial Record, printed in 1905, was an attempt to at tain this impossible ideal. Many of the letters were completely satisfying but many, also, having been obtained by the Class Sec retary by duress, were composed of one part apology for - delay, one part deprecation -oi -persona1 - achievement, and one part hur rah-for - old - Nassau. 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.

Excerpt from The Decennial Record of the Class of 1889, Vol. 4: Princeton University; 1889-1899 Classmates - Your Secretary sends forth this collection of Eighty nine Tales trusting that you will each gain as much pleasure and profit from its perusal as has he from its compilation. At first glance these letters may seem to furnish little more than glimpses of the footsteps and fortunes of more or less familiar friends. Closer scrutiny, however, will convince the most uninterested that there is much more contained between the leaded lines than is condensed on the printed page. That the unwrit ten as well as the written may be sought and found by every reader is the earnest wish of the editor. With this end in view, he has endeavored not only to preserve intact the phraseology of each letter as it has come to him, but also to present entire the personality of each writer as it has been seen by him. If, therefore, there is anything in this volume which is worthy of praise, it is due to the members of the Class who have enlightened us as to the substance as well as to the sequence of their lives. If it contains anything which is deserving of blame, it should be laid at the door of the redactor, who has obscured where he hoped to make plain or has misled where he hoped to guide. 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.

Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World examines the philology of orientalism. It discusses how European (and in particular German) orientalism has influenced the modern understanding of how language accesses reality and offers a critical reinterpretation of orientalism, ontology and modernity. This book pushes an innovative focus on the global history of knowledge as entangled between European and non-European cultures. Drawing from formal oriental studies, epigraphy, travel literature, and theology, Henning Trüper explores how the attempt to appropriate the world by attaching language to the notion of a 'real' reference in the world ultimately produced a crisis of meaning. In the process, Trüper convincingly challenges received understandings of the intellectual genealogies of oriental scholarship and its practices. This ground-breaking study is a meaningful contribution to current discourses about philology and significantly adds to our understanding about the relationship between discursive practices, cultural agendas, and political systems. As such, it will be of immense value to scholars researching Europe and the modern world, the history of philology, and those seeking to historicise the prevalent debates in theory.

This book completes the series of histories of the clubs and players responsible for making baseball the national pastime that began with Base Ball Pioneers, 1850-1870 (McFarland 2011). Forty clubs and hundreds of pioneer players from the first hotbeds of New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts are profiled by leading experts on baseball's early years. The subjects include legendary clubs such as the Knickerbockers of New York, the Eckfords and Atlantics of Brooklyn, the Athletics of Philadelphia, and Harvard's first baseball clubs, and fabled players like Jim Creighton, Dickey Pearce, and Daniel Adams, but space is also given to less well remembered clubs such as the Champion Club of Jersey City and the Cummaquids of Barnstable, Massachusetts. What united all of these founders of the game was that their love of baseball during its earliest years helped to make it the national pastime.