CLASS OF 1879

Professor Levi L. Conant, who is at the head of the department of mathematics in Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is the author of a text book on plane and spherical trigonometry which has just been published by the American Book Company.

Dr. Howard Sumner Dearing, formerly senior surgeon of the Massachusetts militia, and well known in the medical profession of Boston, died at his boyhood home in Waterboro, Maine, October 4,.0f a complication of diseases superinduced by a paralytic shock. Doctor Dearing was born in Waterboro, August 6, 1857. In college he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After graduation he pursued the study of medicine at Bowdoin and Dartmouth, obtaining his medical degree at Dartmouth in 1882: This course was supplemented by postgraduate study in New York, Berlin, and Vienna, and when he settled in practice in Boston in July, 1885, it was with an unusually thorough preparation, so that his advancement was rapid. In 1886 he joined the First Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, as hospital steward, and was appointed assistant surgeon a year later, holding this rank for ten years, when he was appointed surgeon, with the of major. He was afterwards surgeon of the First Heavy Artillery, and later in the Coast Artillery, serving in the Spanish War with the rank of major and surgeon of volunteers. In 1896-9 he was instructor in clinical medicine in Tufts Medical College, in 1899-1900 lecturer on military medicine in, the same school, and since 1900 assistant professor of the same subject. Soon after coming to Boston he connected himself with the Central Congregational church, and became a worker and office-bearer in that organization. In connection with his practice he did a large amount of charity work. In 1888 he was married to Miss Cora M. Chadbourne of Boston, who survives him, with their three children.

Secretary, C. C. Davis, Winchester, N. H.