CLASS OF 1861

A very enjoyable reunion was that of the class of 1861, which had headquarters in Richardson Hall, over one of the windows of which was an electric sign, "The Boys of '61," and the members present spent their time for four days in bridging the chasm of the past half century and became boys once more.

On the 25th of July, 1861, fifty-eight young men in the academical department and eight in the Chandler Scientific School received their diplomas at the hand of President Nathan Lord. This was four days after the disastrous battle of Bull Run, and before the war closed twenty-two had enlisted in the Union army, besides three non-graduates who were connected with the class for two years. Most of these held commissions, and four died in the army or in service connected therewith. There are twenty-three survivors of the class, and twelve were present in Hanover. Two of these had not been back since graduation, Chase-of Missouri and Moore of Nevada. At graduation nineteen were elected members of the Phi Beta Kappa society, of whom seven are living and six were present at this reunion. Of the survivors of the class there are three lawyers, four ministers, one teacher, two . business men, one college treasurer, all retired from active service, one practicing lawyer, one editor, one farmer, one judge, four business men, one artist, two physicians, and one president emeritus, Dr. William Jewett Tucker, who presided over the College during its reconstruction and in whose career -his classmates take an honorable pride.

The pleasantest hours of Commencement week for the class were those on Tuesday evening, where as guests of Doctor and Mrs. Tucker at dinner at their beautiful home on Occom Ridge, the old boys reminisced of bygone days and took from each other words of cheer for the sunset years. Those present in addition to the host were: Col. George A. Bruce of Brookline, retired lawyer and military historian; Joseph V. Chase, judge of probate, Marshall, Mo.; Eben H. Davis, for many years superintendent of schools, Chelsea, Mass.; George W. Estabrook, lawyer, Boston, Mass.; Rev. George L. Gleason, Topsfield, Mass.; Henry K. Moore, lawyer and real estate, Tonopah, Nevada; Rev. Edward Norton, Quincy, Mass.; Harlan W. Page, for forty years a trustee and for twenty-five years treasurer of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.; Edward D. Redington, who served as a paymaster in the Civil War and was a trustee of Dartmouth from 1865 to 1905, of Evanston, Ill.; Galen B. Seaman, Daytona, Fla., editor of the only Republican paper in that state; and Gilman H. Tucker, secretary of the American Book Company, New York city.

Secretary, Edward D. Redington, 1905 Harris Trust Building, Chicago