CLASS OF 1885

CLASS REUNION

Out of fifty-five living graduates of '85, thirty attended the reunion, viz.: Allard, Armes, Austin, Bayley, Blaisdell, Bourlet, Bouton, Briggs, Brooks, Chase, Chellis, Currier, Dana, Darling, Floyd, Foster, Goodenow, Hodgkins, Otis Hovey, Hudson, Larimer, Melendy, E. F. Philbrick, Plapp, Towle, Wakefield, W ashburn, Weston, Whipple, G. H. Whitcomb. R. W. Pillsbury, non-graduate, was also present. Thirty-seven wives and children made a total attendance of sixty-eight. A drive to President Tucker's farm on Moose Mountain, and a picnic supper there, and another under the elms in front of headquarters at Wheeler Hall, served to bring old and new friends together and to make the affair an easy-going family reunion. The opportunity to sit out in the shade of the trees and smoke and exchange reminiscences and hear Hodgkins' and Larimer's improved and enlarged editions of their classmates escapades was one of the most satisfactory features of the reunion. The whole affair was marked by good fellowship rather than formal stunts. At the class dinner, Sam Hudson as toastmaster called up each man to give an account of himself for a quarter of a century. One of the best accounts, filled to the brim with Dartmouth spirit, was a letter from a wife on the Pacific slope, who was promptly elected an honorary member of the class, whose husband was elected president, and whose son was entered for 1921.

Briggs was judge at prize speaking; Hudson presided at the alumni dinner; Bayley was elected as vice-president of Phi Beta Kappa and presided in absence of Professor C. F. Richardson; and General Darling gave a military model for class marching. Richard Hovey's '85 class song, composed when he was seventeen for the freshman class banquet at Montreal, was frequently sung, and won marked applause at the alumni dinner.

One of the absentees, White, expressed his loyalty by sending from Ohio eighty-five remarkable green and white pinks for the class dinner.

Three men have sons already in College, and at least nine others have entered their boys on the registrar's books for classes ranging from 1914 to 1921.

Five years ago the class started a class fund with the hope of making it $2,500 at the 25th reunion. Through the efforts of the late John Colby somewhat more than half that sum was raised prior to his death last October. The vigorous and resourceful campaign of Sam Hudson in the last six months brought the amount up to $3,200. On Commencement day the fund was presented to the trustees without restrictions, in the belief that such gifts are most needed and most useful, as the trustees are in the best position to judge from year to year what is the greatest need of the College, and in the hope that other classes might follow suit in giving to the general funds, rather than in restricting to special ends. ' The class added a wish that at any time, if necessary, the income of the fund might be used to aid a descendant of a member of the class to get his education at Dartmouth.

Secretary, Prof. Herbert D. Foster, Hanover, N. H.