CLASS OF 1874

The class held at Commencement its regular five-year reunion, this being our fortieth year out. At the time we had forty-eight men still living, of whom one was abroad and two seriously ill, one of whom (Dickey) has since died. There were twenty-eight present at Hanover, giving us 58.33 per cent of all living. We have lost seven men since our last reunion in 1909, and one since last June. Those who have died are: Chase, Petrie, Richardson, Warren, Brockway, Flanders, and Gilson, with Dickey this last month. Those present were: H. Allin, Baldwin, Carr, Caverly, Crawford, Dickson, Eastman, Home, Jones, Lewis, McCall, Merrill, Moore, Wm. Morrill, W. W. Morrill, Newton, Parsons, Pettee, Powers, Pratt, Quimby, Reed, Scott, Southgate, Streeter, Spear, White, and Wright.

At our time of life our reunions are quiet affairs, with but little in the way of display. For a small class, we feel that we have done our duty by the College in supplying three trustees, and, what is perhaps better, in having no member of the class who has not brought some credit to the College. Moore of Butte, Montana, has given the department of geology one of its most valuable collections of specimens of gold and silver ores, worth over $5,000.

The class banquet was held on Monday evening at the Commons, with Hon. S. L. Powers presiding. Every one knows how a dinner goes when "Sam" is presiding. With our diminishing numbers, there was time for every man to recite, and Sam made them do it. Whatever was lacking of moral tone in college came out at this dinner, with Streeter in the lead. It was the first reunion that Crawford had attended, and his. grief for what he then saw he had lost in all the past reunions was a lesson for younger men. Word was received from Nesmith at San Diego, Cal., one of the few others who have never been back, that this time it was only severe illness that kept him away. The offices of president and secretary have so long been pre-empted by Powers and Quimby that no one thought to go through the form of re-election, and so Sam and I seem to hold our positions by right of eminent domain, or some similar right. All the same, the class of '74 separated in the early hours of Tuesday with the fixed intention of holding on another five years, and being on hand early at the next reunion.