Excerpt from Report of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Brotherhood of Alpha Delta Phi: Held in New York, 24th and 25th June, 1857 Twenty-five years It is much in the life of any one of us of any individual. It covers the passage from an ardent youth to a matured, practised, and fruitful manhood. It holds in it the story of faculties disciplined, of knowledge enlarged, of aspirations that have ripened into settled resolutions, of thoughts that have hardened into plans of activity, of hopes that have been realized or else have been relinquished, of a great part of our work on earth accomplished or omitted. Comparatively. 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.