CLASS OF 1882

Thirty-three members of the class of '82 returned to Hanover to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary reunion at Commencement. They were: Adams, Bartlett, Bendelari, Cate, Cook, Cummings, Davis, English, Felker, Frame, Goss, Harmon, Harlow (non graduate), Knight, Lawrence, Lines, Little, Locke, Luques, Mathewson, Merrill (non graduate), Murray, Pease, Pierce, Poor, Pope, Rice, H. L. Smith, Strong, Thompson, Upton, Ward and Webster.

In spite of a few honorary degrees and many gray hairs, the delegation became boys again for a couple of days. Sanborn House was headquarters. From Monday morning until Wednesday night no one slept much, and there were few of the old familiar places that were not visited.

Some members of the class had not been back for twenty-five years, and the changes in Hanover were a revelation and a source of constant wonderment and admiration to them.

The class present presented a petition to the trustees asking that''Sol" Merrill, who entered the Thayer School at the end of junior year, be given his degree and enrolled as a member of the class. This petition was favorably acted upon and the degree was formally conferred on Wednesday morning.

At the banquet at the Inn on Tuesday evening a resolution was passed that the class raise $2,000.00 for a scholarship to be known as the "Class of '82 Scholarship,'' the income to be devoted to student aid, and the fund to be administered as part of the Tucker Alumni Fund.

On slips of paper pledges amounting to about $1,300.00 were made at the dinner. The class secretary was instructed to comttiunicate these facts to the absent members of the class and give them opportunity to contribute.

At the alumni dinner on Commencement day, Webster made the after-dinner Speech for the class.

Harmon was chosen president for the next five years; Little, secretary and treasurer, and a committee consisting of Strong of Boston, Webster of Chicago, and Little of New York was named to complete the work of raising the scholarship fund.

It was formally voted to hold the next reunion five years hence.