CLASS OF 1880
Twenty-seven graduates and two non-graduates sat down to the class supper at Hanover Inn, Tuesday, June 22, at 8 o'clock p. m., leaving the tables at 1.30 a. m„ June 23. Of the forty-eight living graduates twenty-seven were present. Since our reunion we have lost by death, Herrick, state missionary of Minnesota. An account of his life will appear in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in the next issue. The list of members present is as follows:
Henry William Allen, 20 Market St., Manchester, N. H.; William Egbert Badger, 105 Beacon St., Lowell, Mass.; Fred Elmer Cluff, 63 Howard St., Haverhill, Mass.; George Mathiot Davidson, 211 No. East Ave., Oak Park, Ill.; George Arthur Dickey, 913 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.; Dana Marsh Dustan, 340 Main St., Worcester, Mass.; William Bainbridge Fellows, Tilton, N. H.; Edwin Dewey Field, 203 Exchange Bldg., Duluth, Minn.; Warren Converse French, 41 Park Row, New York, N. Y.; Alvin Dennis Gaines, 609 Washington Ave., S.E., Minneapolis, Minn.; George Henry Hubbard, 52 Cliff Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass.; Edwin Frank Jones, 936 Elm St., Manchester, N. H.; John Horton King, Malone, N. Y.; Samuel Thomas King, 351 Adelphi Rd., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Samuel Sinclair Perry, 77 State St., Boston, Mass.; William Lemmex Pierce, Palisade Ave., Englewood, N. J.; Clarence Pike, Royalston, Mass.; Fred Jerome Ripley, 12 Cottage St., Brockton, Mass.; William Alexander Service, Hopewell Junction, N. Y.; Frank Edson Shedd, 93 Federal St., Boston, Mass.; William Isaac Clark Smith, St. Luke's School, Wayne, Pa.; Arthur Langdon Spring, 73 Tremont St, Boston, Mass.; James Ephraim Stone, Concord, N. H.; Charles Henry Strout, St. Luke's School, Wayne, Pa.; Webster Thayer, 340 Main St., Worcester, Mass.; Willard Warner, East Lake, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Edson Walter White, 266 Albion St, Wakefield, Mass.
Non-Graduates: F. P. Garrettson, Newport, R.I.; E. L. Hallman, Norristown, Pa.
We received regrets from Walker, Twiss, Dodge, Prescott, Teames, Furman, and Dutton. For the first time since graduating, our president, Thomas Flint, of Hollister, Cal, was unavoidably detained. Morton and Johnson were not able to come, so the Pacific slope was not represented,
Edwin F. Jones was selected to preside at the class supper. A letter from Furman to Flint was read, which expressed such loyal interest in the class that it is added to the report:
"Westfield, N. Y., June 20, 1915. My dear Flint:
A man who travels 3000 miles to attend our class reunion will want a pretty good excuse from the man who fails to annihilate a petty distance of 500. But that excuse I have. The tyranny of one Commencement will not relax to permit of the freedom of another. But I am with you heart and soul.
I am giving free rein to my imagination to create as vivid a picture as I can of the scenes that are now being enacted, and reenacted, in Hanover—for many of the greetings and some of the doings, I am confident, will be reverberations of what took place thirty-five years ago.
This is not the place to give expression at any length to the thoughts and feelings which our thirty-fifth anniversary arouses, but it is the place to give to the class through you assurances of my loyalty and personal attachment to each one of you. It is the place to give expression to our sacred memory for the dead, and to acknowledge the value of those ties which persist in spite of death, and make you feel that in some mysterious way friendships, real friendships, are eternal.
Others will supply the fun for your festivities. If I were with you I would do what I could to add to those lighter strains which will be heard. Still, I am confident that the serious note which I strike will harmonize with all the other tones of our thirty-fifth anniversary, and that you will believe that it is not the preacher, or the teacher, but the classmate and the friend who says:
'What then? Shall we sit idly down and say The night hath come; it is no longer day? The night hath not yet come; we are not quite Cut off from labor by the failing light; Something remains for us to do or dare; Fven the oldest tree some fruit may bear; And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.'
Yours in the bonds of 'BO and with a cheer for Dartmouth.
Jones called upon the following classmates to speak: Captain Warner, Hallman, Samuel T. King, John H. King, Garrettson,' who has been Mayor of Newport, R. 1., and Judge Fellows.
Officers elected: Thomas Flint, president, Dana M. Dustan, secretary, and treasurer, and Thomas Flint, historian.
It was unanimously voted to have our next reunion in 1919 at the time of the 150th anniversary of the College. We graduated sixty-five, of whom eighteen have passed away. The class was very largely represented at the alumni meeting Tuesday afternoon. Thayer, our representative on the Alumni Council, spoke effectively on the question at issue relating to the changes in the election of alumni trustees. Tuesday morning the class gathered in front of Tuck Building for a class photograph. After this was taken the class asked the wives and children present to sit with us for another photograph. By the generosity of Hallman each member of the class is to receive a copy of this second photograph. Several of the class had automobiles with them, and were generous in offering rides to the members of the class and their families. The following ladies, wives of the members of the class, were present: Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. Dustan, Mrs. Field, Mrs. French, Mrs. Gaines, Mrs. Hallman, Mrs. Pierce, and Mrs. Shedd. There are several bachelors in the class, none of whom of course could bring their wives, but they did not seem to be thereby downcast or discouraged.
The ability of the College to entertain returning classes has appreciably improved. It is quite a problem in a small village of two thousand to provide, only once a year, for many hundred guests. We had pleasant weather, and unusually low temperature for Hanover for the season of the year. We hope in 1919 to have all of the living members of the class, whether graduates or non-graduates, present.
