CLASS OF 1889

On June 30, John Barrett completed his second year as director of the International Bureau of the American Republics, which has been entirely reorganized under his administration. Recently at a large public dinner in Washington, signalizing the growth of Pan-American commerce and comity during Mr. Barrett's administration of the bureau, Senator Elihu Root of New York, formerly secretary of state, Vice-President Sherman, Secretary of State Knox, Speaker Cannon, and Ambassador Nabuco of Brazil all took occasion to compliment Mr. Barrett's labors and to state that he had accomplished a great work in bringing about a new relationship between North and South America. The International Bureau is now recognized all over the world as the foremost institution of its kind, and its publications are being translated into every foreign language. Its Monthly Bulletin President Taft has recently described as the best official publication that goes out of Washington. It is known that whenever any suggestion has been made, as has often been the case, that Mr. Barrett should be appointed by this administration as ambassador or minister to some country, following his previous experience as minister in four different lands, the diplomatic representatives in Washington of the twenty Latin American republics have protested, and urged that he should remain at the head of an institution which is doing so much in behalf of their growth and development.

The secretary has issued a very readable report of the class as a preliminary of its twentieth anniversary, to which we are indebted for the following items :

Frederick J. Allen is at the head of the Boston City History Club, 2 Park Square, Boston, an institution which trains boys and young men in citizenship by giving them a knowledge of local history, civil government, and present day affairs, now enrolling about 1000 members. He has lately bought a home in Arlington.

Fred J. Bradish is connected with the sales department of the Vermont Farm Machine Co., Bellows Falls, Vt.

Jonathan I. Buck was transferred the first of March from the Lincoln School, South Boston, to the Mechanical Arts High School, where he teaches mathematics. His home is in Lexington, Mass.

Chester B. Curtis became last summer principal of the Central High School, St. Louis, Mo., in which he has been assistant since 1899. He has under his direction 82 teachers and 2000 pupils.

Charles P. Cushman, non-graduate, is vicepresident and general manager of the Osaka Gas Company, Osaka, Japan.

Benjamin F. Ellis was married to Miss Zulu Tull, February 2,1909. The present address of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis is 1442 Wilson Ave., Chicago.

George H. Hitchcock, Washington Court House, Ohio, is to become clerk of courts August 1, having been in the grocery business for several years.

Leslie H. Ingham, Ph. D., has been since 1907 professor of chemistry in Baltimore City College, Baltimore, Md., having previously been on the faculty of Kenyon College.

Nathan Kendall, who has been in the insurance business in Cleveland, Ohio, since graduation, has been for a year past at Silver City, New Mexico, in a sanitarium, with good prospects of recovery from tuberculosis.

Fred E. Smith is superintendent of schools of Wahpeton, N. D. Last year he was a candidate for the Republican nomination for state superintendent of public instruction, and was defeated on a small margin.

Secretary; James C. Flagg, Hackley School, Tarrytown, N. Y.