CLASS OF 1908

The first break in the ranks of this class since graduation is caused by the appalling tragedy of April 29. On the morning of that day, on the campus of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., Porter MacDougall Smith fatally shot Miss Helen Ayer Marden, a member of the senior class in that college, and immediately took his own life. He had been disappointed in his expectation of marrying Miss Marden, and must have become mentally unbalanced. Smith was one of the most prominent and popular men in the class, a member of the Alpha Delta Phi, the Turtle, the Casque and Gauntlet, and the Palaeopitus, captain of the golf team, substitute third baseman on the nine, a prominent member of the musical clubs, and chairman of the Junior Prom committee of his class. He came to College from Chicago, having fitted at the University High school. His father, J. N. Smith, died some "ten years ago. His mother, Mrs. Charlotte M. Smith, lives in Chicago. Since graduation he has been traveling in the West for the shoe firm of R. P. Smith and Sons, of which his father was formerly a member.

Secretary, Laurence M. Symmes, Winchester, Mass.