CLASS OF 1872

Governor Foss of Massachusetts January 29 nominated William P. Fowler for chairman of the Boston Licensing Board, to succeed Samuel H. Hudson '85, resigned, and the nomination was promptly confirmed by the council. Mr. Fowler has long been in the active service of the city of Boston, having been since 1889 one of the overseers of the poor and since 1891 chairman of the board, and from 1900 to 1911 the head of the city institutions registration department. He is also a lawyer in active practice, and a director of the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad, the Randall-Faichney Company, the Babson-Dow Manufacturing Company, and the Boston and Revere Rubber Company, and was formerly president of the Manchester Mills Corporation of Manchester, N., H. He is also director and president of the Industrial Aid Society, and treasurer of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, a Unitarian organization.

Secretary, Prof. Albert E. Frost, Winthrop St., Pittsburgh, Pa.