"FIVE-CLASSES ROUND-UP"

What in all probability will prove to be the beginning of a new series of alumni reunions occurred at the Merrimac Valley Country Club of Lawrence, Mass., on Friday, October 20, on the eve of the Dartmouth-Georgetown football game. Members of the classes of '97 to '01 met for a field day and dinner at the suggestion of the class of '99. The very great success of the meeting should be credited to George G. Clark '99, who first proposed such a gathering and then worked indefatigably as secretary of the committee in charge of the affair.

The afternoon was given up to athletic contests of a mild sort, consisting mostly of golf and a gentle game of baseball, but the last event on the program was a hard-fought class relay race made from pumpkins. Mahoney '00 made the best' score in golf, and the class of '01 won the relay race by virtue of the best combination of speed and care.

About seventy men sat down to dinner at seven o'clock, at the close of which C. H. Donahue '99, acting as toastmaster, introduced the following speakers in turn:—Paul R. Clay '97; H. P. Patey '98; Robert P. Johnston '99, who gave his celebrated lecture on geological finds in the vicinity of Hanover; N. W. Emerson '00; and President E. M. Hopkins '01.

So far as is known this is the first occasion when several classes have joined together in a "Round-Up," and the avowed purpose of this meeting was to give the men the opportunity to meet the men of other classes who were in college with them. The scheme of five year reunions does not give this opportunity at the College, and the general alumni dinners have proved to be too large and formal for friendly gatherings of contemporaries. At the close of the meeting a unanimous vote was taken to hold a similar meeting next year.