CLASS OF 1896

William Leavitt Harris died of pleuropneumonia at the home of his father, Rev. Dr. William J. Harris, in Nashua. N. H., June 4, 1908. Mr. Harris was born in Rutland, Vt., Dec. 2, 1874. From the age of seven the family home was in Nashua., where he prepared for college at the city high school. After graduating with Phi Beta Kappa.rank, he entered Boston University Law School, and completed the usual three years' course in two years, graduating with honors in 1898. He immediately entered the law office of Burke and Corbett of Lowell, Mass., where he later became a partner. He was held in high esteem by both the members of his profession and his clients, as a man of dignified and courteous bearing, and a lawyer of more than average ability, being regarded as one of the most promising of the younger members of the bar in eastern Massachusetts. He was unmarried. The burial was at Brattleboro, Vt., the former home of his father's family.

Secretary, Carl H. Richardson, 27 School St., Boston