CLASS OF 1861

The following report of the reunion of the class of '61 at their forty-fifth anniversary was written for his own newspaper the Lowell (Mass.) Courier-Citizen, by Honorable George F. Marden, secretary of the class. It was published in the issue of June 30, 1906:

The class of '61 entered Dartmouth in August, 1857. There were sixty members during freshman year, seventy during sophomore year, sixty-seven during junior year, and we graduated fifty-eight. This, it must be remembered, was in the academic department, or "the College proper," as we used to say, the Chandler School being a distinct institution by itself. I have been the class secretary since shortly after graduation. At the end of ten years, after strenuous endeavor to procure the facts, I published a somewhat meagre history of the class. I have essayed at intervals since then to bring out new histories, but could not, by any amount of endeavor, secure a sufficiently complete story of the members to warrant publication.

So far as I can learn there may be today twenty-six of the class still living. I give their names, and such addresses as are on file in the College:"

Brewster, John Leander, 17 High street, Andover, Mass.

Brown, David Henry, Medford, Mass.

Bruce, George Anson, Boston.

Cate, George Washington, Amesbury, Mass.

Chase, Joseph Venable, Marshall, Mo.

Davis, Eben Harlow, Lakeside, N. H. Dow, Reverend William Wallace. 9 Austin street, Portsmouth, N. H.

Duncan, DeWitt Clinton, Vinita, Indian Territory.

Estabrook, George William, 82 Devonshire street, Boston.

Gilman, James Pierpont, Rock Rapids, Ia.

Gleason, George Leroy, Haverhill, Mass. Jenness, Benjamin Franklin', Willmar, Minn.

Jones, Amos Byron, (not known).

Marden, George Augustus, 84 Fairmount street, Lowell, Mass.

Moore, Henry Kingsbury, 1307 Taylor street, San Francisco, Cal.

Norton, Edward, Greenleaf street, Quincy, Mass.

Noyes, Daniel James, 60 Broadway, New York City.

Page, Harlan Winslow, 208 College avenue, Northfield, Minn.

Page, Henry Pitt, 24 Hopkins street, Hartford, Conn.

Putney, Henry Marcus, Manchester, N. H.

Redington, Edward Dana, 325 Marquette building, Chicago.

Seaman, Galen Benjamin, P. O. box 269, Daytona, Fla.

Tucker, Gilman Henry, 100 Washington square. New York City.

Tucker, William Jewett, Hanover, N. H., (President of the College.)

Weeks, William Brackett, Lebanon, N. H.

Welch, Henry Clay, 120 Engleside, Cleveland, Ohio,

Of the above named only nine were present at the reunion: Bruce, Cate, Esta- brook, Marden, Norton, Putney, Redington, W. J. Tucker and Weeks. Of the others, Brewster, Dow, and Welch were not in sufriciently robust health to make the journey; Brown, Gleason, and G. H. Tucker were "too busy"; Chase, Duncan, Moore, H. W. Page, and Seaman were too far away, though all were heard from; Davis, Jenness, Jones, Noyes, and H. P. Page were not heard from, but there is reason to believe that all are living. has not been heard from in all these forty-five years, and Chase only within a few weeks.

Since the fortieth anniversary reunion five years ago, four members of the class have died: Baker, Cobb, Morse, and Osgood.

President Tucker invited the members present at the reunion to dine with him at Room 4, College Hall, on Tuesday evening, at 6.80. In one respect, at least, the Commencement of now shows progress over the Commencement of the olden time. We were served with as dainty, toothsome and well cooked a reunion feast at College Hall, as we should have had at a first-class city hotel or restaurant; and the alumni dinner is now in marked contrast to the meagre, cold, and badly served repasts of forty years —or even ten years—ago.

It would be too much to attempt to report what was' said and done at our reunion. There was no singing, no Wah- Whoo-Wah-ing, and though hilarity was not missing it was somewhat subdued, as befitted so venerable a party. In a neigh- boring room, the semi-centennial class ('56) was holding its reunion in like manner. A fiftieth anniversary counts for more than a forty-fifth, and the class of '56 had thirteen present out of a list of only twenty-one survivors. We considered our possible semi-centennial reunion as a very uncertain affair, but we expressed a hope that those who did survive wouldn't be too busy, or too far away, or too feeble, to be there.