Excerpt from University of Ottawa Review, Vol. 4: September, 1900 Your Grace Reverend Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen - An other scholastic year has rolled into the mighty oc'ean of the past, and another commencement day is at hand. The all-important day for the class of 1900 has arrived. This is the event we have been looking forward to so eagerly during all the long, tedious years of our under-graduate life. This hour of supreme triumph which we have often dreamed of, so often despaired of ever reach, ing, the alluring fascination of, which 1at each commencement, awakened in us new resolves for perseverance to the' end, -this hour, at last, has come, and brought with it the reward of all our toil, the first great triumph of our' young lives. Oh how inexpressibly pleasurable'it is, to know that the 'object we aimed at is within our grasp, and no and fate can intervene'to dissap point us, to know that at'last all doubt, and uncertainty is past, that we have safely reached the-end of our course. 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.