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Title: Silver Links

Author: Various

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SILVER LINKS

A COLLECTION OF SALUTATORY, VALEDICTORY AND
OTHER ADDRESSES DELIVERED AT THE FIRST
FIVE COMMENCEMENTS OF THE FEMALE
STENOGRAPHIC AND TYPEWRITING
CLASS OF THE GENERAL SOCIETY
OF MECHANICS AND
TRADESMEN
OF THE
CITY OF NEW YORK

COMPILED BY
W. L. MASON

NEW YORK
ALBERT B. KING, 89 WILLIAM STREET
1892

TO
MR. ISAAC PITMAN
THE "FATHER OF PHONOGRAPHY"
THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS MOST RESPECTFULLY
INSCRIBED
BY
THE COMPILER

Introductory Note

It is always beautiful to see the young confront the uncertainties of
the future, and look forward with faith to happiness and success. I am
proud of young women who are willing to devote their evenings, when
they must toil for a livelihood through the day, to a course of study
which will secure to them the knowledge of a mechanical art. This
knowledge becomes a treasure which no disaster of fire or flood can
ever destroy, and a source of comfortable income through life. It
makes dependent young women independent, and I congratulate every one
who graduates from this excellent school of instruction with her
well-earned diploma, which is more valuable to her than any legacy of
gold or precious stones.

Martha J Lamb

New York City, April 16, 1892.

Address of Rev. C. S. Harrower, D. D.

_To the Class of '87._

"Ladies of the graduating class,--Ladies and Gentlemen: It seems as
if words were hardly in place to-night, because of the interesting
programme which is before you. I suppose we have no conception of
the exercises prepared for us this evening. I never knew of this
Institution until Mr. Moore told me of it, and I am particularly glad
to be here.

"I have often remarked that our New York life is like the life of one
of our gre