CLASS OF 1870

Doctor Francis Brown was inaugurated president of Union Theological Seminary, New York, November 17. Dartmouth College was officially represented by O. F. Mathewson '82, of the board of trustees, and by Prof. Julius A. Brown '02, son of the president. President Brown delivered his inaugural address in the evening, after which a. banquet was held at the University Club in Harlem, at which representatives from fifty educational institutions were present.

Horace Fletcher, the dietary reformer, who has added a group of words to the English language, was a member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department during the earlier part of its course. After an active and successful business life, he has for ten years past made his home in the Palazzo Saibante, on the Grand Canal in Venice, though spending much of his time in the United States and England in the propagation of his ideas. Outside of his business life, he is a man of varied attainments. Early in life he became a crack shot with the rifle, and published a treatise on the "ABC of Snap-Shooting," which became a standard in army circles. On a visit to Japan he was invited to instruct the officers of the Japanese army in the art, and Count Oyama was one of his pupils. Later he made the discovery that fear, worry, and anger must be eliminated from life if mental health was to be attained, and wrote his books entitled " Menticulture, " "Happiness," and " Optimism a Real Remedy." The imperfection of his physical health led to the investigations which have resulted in the dietary system known as "Eletcherism." The success "of the system in his own case is evidenced by the fact that in his sixtieth year he can outwalk, outlift, and out-bicycle most professional athletes of onethird his age.

Secretary, John H. Hardy, Arlington, Mass.