GIFT OF CLASS OF 1885

By an unfortunate oversight, the account of Commencement dinner failed to mention the gift from the class of '85 and the happy presentation speech of Samuel H. Hudson, who referred to President Nichols' description of Governor Wentworth's coming across the state with a punch bowl and remarked: "The colonial governor came across with a punchbowl, but the class of '85 has come across with $10,000."

Several facts about the fund are noteworthy. It is given free from restrictions so that the trustees may use the income for whatever object they think best. Out of fifty-five living graduates, all but five have contributed. The fund is double that given so far by any other class. It was given through the alumni fund. It might be added that the class has developed the habit of giving and does not feel under any obligation to stop at $10,000 and leave the field to larger classes to exceed the speed limit. When the President of the Class, W. J. C. Wakefield of Spokane, set the amount to be raised by 1915 as ten thousand dollars he also wished it to be understood by trustees and class that this fund should not in any way prevent any one in the class from giving to any other object for the college; and when the amount was paid to the college, the treasurer of the class expressed the "hope that from time to time, by direct gift or by bequest, the class fund of '85 may be substantially increased."