Excerpt from The Record of the Hampden-Sydney Alumni Association, Vol. 6: October 1, 1931 You have surely wished a tough assignment on me - to write one thousand to one thousand two hundred words for the record, when the sun is sending its rays down and giving forth heat like the crater Of Vesuvius. However, I cannot say no, for it might cause you to think that I didn't want to write you something about my Odyssey. So here goes, with the understanding that you are to edit this epistle. I haven't the time to think straight and I haven't the zipp to reedit this letter which is written in haste, owing to a busy week which stares me in the face. 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.