CLASS OF 1865

Eight members of the class of 1865 celebrated the fortieth anniversary of their graduation at the last Commencement. Those present at the banquet at College Hall on Tuesday evening, June 27, were Dr. C. C. Arms of Cleveland, Ohio, Senator H. E. Burnham of Manchester, the Rev. Dr. H. I. Cushman of Providence, R. 1., Mr. Henry G. Ely of St. Johnsbury, Vt., E. B. Hale, Esq. of Boston, Judge I. L. Heath of Manchester, the Rev. C. L. Hubbard of West Boxford, Mass., and Judge W. B. Stevens of Boston.

Two members of the class were detained from the reunion by ill health - Mr. A. E. White of Methuen, Mass., and Judge J. S. Conner of Cincinnati, Ohio. Judge Conner wrote the Secretary that on the date of the reunion he " would be sailing along the shores of Sardinia."

While at Hanover news came to the class secretary of the death of Henry L. Oak. Mr. Oak died on May 20, 1905, at Seigler's, Lake Co., California, "in a cottage where he had made his home for eighteen years." A local paper published at Upland, Cal., says of Mr. Oak that "his long years of incessant toil in historical research, while librarian of the Bancroft Library, undermined his health." The same writer says further that " Mr. Oak was chief writer on the Bancroft works, writing about ten of the thirty-nine volumes published. He was without doubt the best informed man in California on the early history of the Pacific Coast." Mr. Oak's brother writes that he has left a volume of. his historical work to Dartmouth College.

Secretary, Henry I. Cushman, 26 Pitman St., Providence, R. I.