Many kind letters of greeting and encouragement were read. No one stirred
a deeper sympathy than that from Mrs. Abbey Gough, of Westfield, N. Y.,
the senior graduate of the C. L. S. C.:
“Although I am too feeble to be with you to-day, and although I am nearly
eighty-four years old, I am with you in spirit. God bless the C. L. S.
C., and God bless the Class of ’82.”
Dr. Vincent said: “This dear woman marched in through the gate when
eighty-two years of age; her son of over fifty, or about fifty, behind
her; his daughter of twenty, perhaps, behind him; three generations in
that Class of ’82. She still lives, at the age of eighty-four, to give
greeting on this glad day.”
The letters were followed by the reports from the assemblies, after which
Dr. Vincent addressed the Class of ’84 as follows: