CLASS OF 1894

It is putting the case mildly to say that the Class of '94 held at the recent Commencement the best reunion in. its history. It was best in point of attendance. At the third reunion the attendance was 41%. of living graduates; the fifth year, 27%; tenth year, 49%; fifteenth year, 58%; twentieth year, 83.33%. This means that there were 70 men present, together with four nongraduates for good measure. Thirty men were there with their wives and in addition there were seven children, the total attendance thus being 112. Ordinarily this would have secured to the class the Commencement cup, which it was anxious to win, since it had presented the cup to the college for the purpose of increasing attendance at the reunions. However, it found in the Class of '64 such game sports that there was no use, and the spokesman of the class had his comrades with him in gladly presenting the cup at the Alumni Dinner to the Class of '64.

But the attendance was not the most significant feature. There was a spirit of comradeship such as had never been known before, not even during college years. As the men looked back over these reunion days, it is not what they did, although the committee provided an interesting program; it was a certain spirit that was in. the air by which the men seemed to be invisibly bound together. And the ladies, too, shared in the joy, one of them saying, and doubtless many of them feeling, that they never had so good a time in their lives.

More men than ever before came back on Saturday, and this naturally had its large influence on the succeeding days. The class business meeting was held in

A Dartmouth, Tuesday evening, and was followed by the banquet in the large dining room of College Hall. At the business meeting it was voted to send words of greeting to President Tucker, Mrs. Charles F. Richardson, and the men of the faculty under whom the class had studied and who have now retired from active service.

Philip S. Marden was toastmaster at the banquet. Among other features of the Reunion was the reception given the class by Professor and Mrs. Hardy on Sunday afternoon, the automobile ride for the ladies on Monday morning, the hop Monday evening, the attendance on the '99 reception Tuesday afternoon, the reception to the faculty that same afternoon.

The class picture -was taken on the steps of Wilson Hall, the men being asked to occupy the same relative positions as in the Freshman picture which had been taken on the steps of the same hall twenty-four years before.

The committee in charge consisted of Albert M. Lyon, Bertrand A. Smalley, Everett W. Boyd, together with Secretary Charles C. Merrill. This class has the remarkable record of having after twenty years 84 men living out of 86 graduates. This record is unequaled by any class of their time or since.

It is expected that a full account of the reunion will be published about August first, together with biographical data about the members of the class.

Secretary, Rev. Charles C. Merrill, 609 Congregational House, Boston