CLASS OF 1873

The class of 1873, in of the fortieth anniversary of their graduation, had a most successful reunion. The college authorities set apart for their use North Fayerweather. The class numbered eighty-seven at graduation and lour others were subsequently granted their degree with the class. Of these ninety-one graduates fifty-three are living; they are scattered widely. Yet of the fifty-three living graduates thirty-two, or a little over sixty per cent, were present at the reunion. There were also seven non-graduates present. Several prominent men of the class have died in recent years, among them Judge George H. Fitts of the New York State Supeme Court; Congressman Frank G. Clark of New Hampshire; Hon. George H. Adams of New Hampshire; Dr. George A. Gates, president of Fisk University; Louis E. Cropsey, U. S. Consul at Chemnitz, Germany; Hiram U. King, a prominent educator of Connecticut; Dr. Otis H. Marion, major general in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; Professor John H. Wright, dean of the Graduate School, Harvard University.

Some of the men who attended the reunion had not been back in Hanover during all these forty years, and were greatly impressed with the growth of the College. Professor and Mrs. Charles Frederick Bradley invited the members of the class with the ladies to a special reception at their rooms on Tuesday afternoon. The reunion banquet in one of the rooms of College Hall was a most successful and enthusiastic affair. Alfred S, Hall was elected chairman for the evening. Grace was invoked by Rev. Alexander Wiswall of Uxbridge, Mass. Many of the college songs of forty years ago had been arranged by the class secretary and printed for the benefit of the old boys whose memory needed . jogging. Words of interest were spoken on the great issues of the times by men prominent in their respective departments, i. e. : Dr. Francis E. Clark, originator and present head of the great Christian Endeavor movement; Seymour Coman, a prominent banker of Chicago; William P. Cooper, general agent for the New York Life Insurance Company in Indiana; Austin P. Cristy, of the Worcester Telegram, Worcester, Mass. ; Rev. Pitt Dillingham, whose settlement work at Calhoun School and Settlement, Calhoun, Ala., and more recently in connection with the Associated Charities of Boston, is well known; by Dr. E. C. Dudley, the eminent specialist of Chicago; by Charles H. Jones, president of the New England Shoe and Leather Association, and former president of the First National Bank of Boston; by Edmund Hayes, the bridge builder, constructor of the Merchants Bridge at St. Louis, the bridge over the Hudson, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., that of the Michigan Central Railway at Niagara Falls, and many other notable structures of the kind. Dartmouth conferred on him the degree of Master of Science on the following day. Others present and taking part were: M. Scoby McCurdy of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. ; Albert P. Grout, whose scientific farming in Illinois, whose lectures and tracts oh agriculture, and whose success in raising alfalfa have gained for him the name, "Alfalfa King of Illinois"; George D. Holton, the Chicago banker; Dr. Leonard Jarvis of Claremont, N. H. ; Dr. Justin G. Hayes of Williamsburg, Mass. ; Rev. George H. Dunlap of Bennington, N. H. ; Hon. Hamilton Mayo, president of the Leominster National Bank; Hon. Altred S. Hall of Boston; Dr. Thomas M. Dillingham, retired New York specialist, whose scientific farming in New Hampshire has been described in the seventh volume of the State Board of Agriculture entitled "New Hampshire Farms for Summer Homes"; Freeman Putney, superintendent of schools, Gloucester, Mass., and Arthur K. Whitcomb, until recently holding a like position in Lowell, Mass. ; Dr. Olney W. Phelps of Warren. Mass. ; Alfred W. Emery, manufacturer, of Parkersburg, W. Va. ; Rev. . Nathan T. Dyer of Byfield, Mass.; George P. Hadley of Goffstown, N. H. ; Edmund F. Higgins and Clarence D. Palmer, business men of Manchester, N. H. ; Henry P. Saunderson, a prominent Sunday school worker of New Hampshire; Ralph Field of Providence, R. I. ; Dr. John C. Stewart, supreme medical director of the Order of the Golden Cross: J. T. Merrick of Boston; Rev. C. J. Richardson of Newbury, Vt. ; James H. Willoughby of Fall River, Mass. ; Rev. Alexander Wiswall of Uxbridge, Mass. ; Herbert G. King, architect, of Detroit, Mich. ; George A. Sargent of Bangor, Me. ; Nathaniel W. Ladd of Boston; Lucian H. Richardson, lawyer and business man of Denver, Colo., who took the long journey to see the old College for the first time since graduation. During the evening a special reunion song, written by the class secretary,. Samuel W. Adriance, was sung.

Secretary, Rev. S. Winchester Adriance, Win Chester, Mass.