CLASS OF 1854

The very unusual occurrence of a reunion at the sixtieth anniversary of graduation has been the good fortune of this class. Through the summons, of the secretary, Mr. Kimball, four members of the class met at the Hanover Inn on the evening of June 23, and enjoyed a banquet, followed by a business meeting. The four were these: Charles Caverno of Lombard, Ill.; Daniel Hall of Dover, N. H.; Benjamin Ames Kimball of Concord, N. H.; and Leander M. Nute of Portland, Me.

Mr. Caverno presided, and the secretary read letters from all the absent survivors but one, expressing their regrets at their inability to be present, as follows: Dr. Samuel W. Dana of New York; George Haseltine of Hoboken, N. J.; Edmund W. Kittredge of Cincinnati; Dr. John G. Johnson, non-graduate, of Brooklyn, N. Y. One other member of the class is supposed to be living — Ephraim Murch — but no response could be obtained from him.

The secretary read a review of the class, covering the sixty years since graduation, and a vote of thanks was extended him. Mr. Nute supplemented this by an account of the secretary's career, and Mr. Hall read a paper which he had prepared on the class. These three papers, with the secretary's collection of class records and documents, have been made over for preservation to the secretary of the College.

Each member expressed his hope that the class might again meet at its sixty-fifth anniversary in 1819.