Excerpt from Commencement Days: A Book for Graduates Yes, I am sure that these young men and women are consciously confronting here to-day much the same question that we older ones faced ifr the Junes to which we are looking back. The costume of the festival is different; the realities of life are not radically altered. There are some of us who have more to remember than you, but you have more to hope for than we; and in this hour when yesterday and to-morrow have met together, when memory and hope have kissed each other, I would fain believe that all of us, old and young, are ready for a little serious thought upon the meaning of life. 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.