CLASS OF 1890
Our reunion was attended by thirty-eight of our fifty-eight living graduates, by two of our non-graduates, and by wives and children as follows:
Abbott, Bacon, A. H., Bacon, W. A., Beacham, Beebee with wife and daughter, Boynton, P. S., with wife, Bugbee with wife and daughter, Caswell with wife, Eaton with wife, Fassett, French, Gault, Gerould with wife and three daughters, Hardy with wife, Hilton with wife, Humphreys with son, Locke with wife, Macdonald with wife, McDonald with wife and daughter, McDuffee with wife, Mann, Mathewson, Mills with wife, Morrison with wife, son, and daughter, Moses with son, Nutt with wife and son, Perkins, C. A. with wife and son, Pringle, Reynolds, Robinson, C. F., Robinson, M. H., Rowe with wife, Ruggles with wife and son, Safford with wife, Sherburne with wife, Sparhawk with wife and two sons, Tyler, White with wife, Woods, F. D., with wife, Young with wife.
The college provided us with headquarters in North Massachusetts Hall, where we were comfortably housed from Saturday until Wednesday, and where an open fire in the reception-room burned on the hearth, about which it soon became our custom to gather together when not called away to attend the usual exercises of Commencement week or those functions provided for our special entertainment.
On Sunday afternoon Bugbee and his family entertained us delightfully at tea at his house on Occom Ridge, built right at the edge of the pines that border the river. Lter that afternoon we attended the vesper, services in Rollins Chapel, which were conducted by Mills.
On Monday afternoon we submitted with our families to the inevitable photographer, and later compared the results of his efforts with the photograph of our class taken in our freshman year which hung over our reception-room mantel in North Massachusetts.
Tuesday morning we marched in line with the other reuning classes to the ball field, where we saw the college nine defeat that from the University of Vermont.
Our class dinner was held in College Hall on Tuesday evening with Mathewson, our class president, presiding, and with brief, informal talks by various classmates, and at its conclusion Hilton presented to each member present a print of the recently acquired portrait of Daniel Webster that hangs in the President's office in the administration building. The day marked the termination of his term as an alumni trustee, but it was only after we had left Hanover that some of us learned he had celebrated the occasion by presenting to the College the grounds occupied by the Hanover Country Club at the north of the village, which he had acquired at an expense of some seven thousand dollars and which he gave unreservedly to the College. These grounds will hereafter be known as Hilton's Field. After the dinner an informal reception was held for the "ladies of the class," and during the alumni luncheon on Wednesday they also occupied places in the gallery. At that luncheon Mathewson spoke for us. A few were obliged by the necessity of catching early trains to miss his address, but to those who were there it fittingly rounded up four days of delightful reminiscences of the past and of renewal of interest in the College of today, and as we left Hanover it was with the determination to return at the thirtieth anniversary of our graduation and to bring with us those who could not come this year.
