CLASS OF 1866

In answer to the call to gather for the forty-fifth anniversary, Wardwell, Wing, Hunt, Spalding, Kendall, Hume, and Whittemore responded. No formal dinner was attempted. A meeting was held in Hunt's room in Richardson, where most of our number were staying. The secretary had some correspondence with some members and some telegrams, which were read by Wardwell and their contents considered. They brought out a flood of re- membrances.

A notable letter was from Ide, written from Madrid. It was a letter for every classmate to hear and read. It was full of class spirit, the-right ring, and, although it was reminiscent as is natural, it did not live wholly in the "dead past".

There were certain marks present in each one of us which indicated that it was not last year that we sat on the benches in Old Dartmouth when Professor Sanborn remarked to one of our number, rather sarcastically, calling the victim by name—"Don't make a town meeting of the recitation." Yet it was by no means an "invalid corps". There was a quiet, yet determined feeling that those of us who were then present would do all that we could for our part to live and celebrate our fiftieth.

It was an exceedingly pleasant meeting. And you fellows who stayed away without an excuse - well, it would make you declare that you would be on hand in 1916, with the rest of us.

There was an immediate tinge of sadness, for we had learned that Johnson had very recently lost his wife, and that Fisher had passed over the River. "We who are about to die" thank God for the anniversary of 1911.

After the above had been written, there appeared a notice of the death of Hazen, in New York, July 22.

Secretary, Henry Whittemore, State Street, Framingham, Mass.