Excerpt from Fifteen Years Old: Being Letters, Notes and Manuscripts Left Behind by William Duncan Saunders, and Picked Up by His Friends G. C. R. And A. W

The publication has been made with no grandiose idea that the world might thereby see how fine a man was in the making when, in the middle of his freshman year at Hamilton, his life was cut short. For we doubt if strangers, in turning these pages, would find that out. We doubt if this haphazard and imperfect record even faintly suggests how rich he was in humor and appreciation, how gallant was his spirit, how gentle his heart, how sunlit he was. We, who watched him through his last year, knew that he possessed, by a kind of divination, the wisdom for which most of us have to trudge 'to the end of the world and look over the wall. We had never seen anyone who stood so eager at the threshold of life. We had never found anyone who seemed so clearly destined to enrich and enhance it. But it is to be doubted if this chance chronicle of his last year tells half that story.

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