CLASS OF 1878

Hidemaro Namboo, who was connected with the class for two years, died last year at Hirosaki, Japan. After returning to Japan he married a daughter of Count Okuma, and assumed the name of his father-in-law. Later, by some mutation not understood in this country, he was separated from his wife and two children and resumed his own name. He was prominent as an educator, being at one time head of the preparatory department of Wasedo University. He seems to have been widely and favorably known,—so much so that a casual inquiry brings the prompt response that "anybody would know about him"; and in the quaint English of a Japese student in this country, "People in his district would elect him a representative (in Parliament), but he would not. He would rather to work as an educator, and was principal of a school until he died last year."

Rev. Tilton C. H. Bouton, who resigned his pastorate at Chelmsford, Mass., last year on account of ill health, is living at Henniker, N. H., somewhat improved in health, supplying pulpits occasionally, and devoting a good deal of time to astronomy, in which he takes great interest, possessing a good sized Alvan Clark telescope, which he delights to use both for his own observing and for interesting others. He also does something in the way of lens-grinding and polishing byway of enlarging his own outfit and improving those of his friends.

Secretary, William D. Parkinson, Waltham, Mass.