Class Notes

Class Reunion.

DECEMBER, 1907 Horace Goodhue
Class Notes
Class Reunion.
DECEMBER, 1907 Horace Goodhue

The class of '67 held its tenth reunion at Hanover, Aug. 20, 21, and 22. We were all lodged in the new South Fayerweather Hall, took our meals at the Hanover Inn, and held our meetings at the College Commons.

Four of our reunions have been in vacation time, two at Hanover, one at Lake Chautauqua, and one at Chicago at the time of the World's Fair, and we all are agreed that the best time for our reunions is during the summer vacation.

Our judges and lawyers are in court in June, and we are unwilling to name a time which will exclude them. Then, too, there are no outside diversions in vacation time. We have the best accommodations. We are together all of the time, and can stay as long as we please.

Our total enrollment was fifty. Thirty-eight wore graduated. Thirteen have died — two in the first decade, none in the second, eight in the third, and three in the fourth. Twenty-five are living, and sixteen were present. Colonel Pearson, who took the West Point course after two years at Dartmouth and who has now retired from the army, was the seventeenth. Two of the absentees were in Europe. For this royal festival McNiece came from Salt Lake City, Goodhue and Sanborn from Minnesota, Prescott from Illinois, Ketcham from Indiana, Brown and Thomas from Ohio, Mosher from New York, while Cate, Dearborn, Edgerly, Hill, king, Mather, Merrill, Pearson, and Wallace- were, from New England. The ten who arrived on the nineteenth called on Doctor Leeds in a body, and were escorted by Dean Emerson of '68 through the new buildings before the others arrived.

After the banquet Tuesday evening the secretary reported the attendance at our ten reunions, gave such information as he had concerning the non-graduate members of the class, the residence and work of the graduates of the Chandler School, and contrasted the College of forty years ago with its president, eight professors, one tutor, and one hundred sixty-five collegiate students, with no instruction in any modern language and only a brief course in science, with the College of today. Then came the reports of the men who were present, with otters from the absentees in alphabetical order. At 11.30 we had only made a beginning, so adjourned till 8.30 a. m., and at noon adjourned again till 1.30 p. m., and finished the roll-call at 6 p. m.

After the business session of the evening was concluded, Doctor McNiece began the volunteer addresses of the session, advocating the value of the ''Big Book" as a guide for life, and others followed in other strains until nearly every one had presented such thoughts as seemed best suited to the time and place. Those who remained until Friday had the pleasure of meeting President Tucker.

Our next reunion is to begin on the Tuesday following Aug. 10, 1912, and it is suggested that as many as possible plan to take their vacations that year at Hanover, and so be together at least two weeks.