CLASS OF 1899

W. T. Atwood has been elected president of the Boston Alumni Association of Phi Kappa Psi. He got in two dinners on March 3, first that of Phi Kappa Psi Association, then his class round-up.

K. Beal has recently, been confined to the house with erysipelas.

L. P. Benezet and E. L. Silver both attended the meeting of the National Educational Association at Kansas City on March 3.

Dr. H. S. Carr is hoping to get away for a little vacation California-ward in April.

Dr. C. E. Cushman has had as one of his patients this winter "Squaw" Kirk.

G. H. Evans was toastmaster at the alumni dinner of the Brewster Free Academy, held in Boston February 16.

Scribner and Sons announce for April publication a novel by Gerould called "Peter Saunders." built around the Peter Saunders stories previously contributed to Scribner'sMagazine.

Dr. N. L. Hoskins has a new residence address.

W. C. Kendall at the request of the United States Interstate Commerce Commission is sitting in Washington with a group of other transportation managers, six all told, one from Southern, one from Southwestern, one from Western, one from Northwestern, and one from the Central Railroads, helping to unsnarl the severe freight car congestion upon the railroads. Strenuous work has produced considerable betterment in the conditions, but it will be some time probably before the situation can be wholly straightened out.

Dr. P. H. Lane underwent a serious operation at the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital in Philadelphia March 5.

E. L. Nye made a flying visit to his home at Coventry, Vt., and to Boston the last of February.

A daughter, Elizabeth Stevens, was born to Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Oakes March 5.

G. H. Rounds is now head investigator for the Ford Motor Company.

Prof. Kanichi Asakawa has published a vigorous statement, affirming the impossibility of Japan's being a party of the coalition with Germany and Mexico contemplated in the proposal of the German government.

The March round-up, occurring as usual the first Saturday night in March, took place in one of the upper dining rooms of the Copley Square Hotel this year. It assumed the nature of a complimentary dinner to James P. Richardson, the originator and moving spirit behind the fine line of annual March round-ups that have been red letter events to the class since their beginning in 1901 — upon his transformation from lawyer into Parker Professor of Law and Political Science at Dartmouth and his impending removal from Boston to Hanover. It was all a surprise to Jim, and when Warren Kenall interrupted the toastmaster, P. M. Os-good, at the point of his opening remarks where in speaking of "Jim" he said he wished he knew more about Jim's school days at St. Johnsbury, and began to tell about them, even those about the board objected to the seeming interruption, but as one after another began to pop up with something to say just where the toastmaster needed it, the prearrangement of it all became apparent. One after another Gannon had something to say on "Jim in College;" Dan Ford on "Jim the Scholar;" Maj. R. P. Johnston produced some very humorous documents bearing on the transformation; and then G. H. Evans continued the speaking with "Jim the Dartmouth man;" C. H. Donahue with "Jim the '99 man."

When the symposium had finished, Jim with considerable emotion essayed a reply. It had been a complete surprise to him. Later W. R. Eastman, called upon to speak upon Railroading, turned the matter over to Kendall, who outlined the freight congestion and what is being done to relieve it. Lieut. H. L. Watson finished the speaking with an interesting talk upon his experiences with the New-York Signal Corps at the border. It was an unusually interesting gathering and the biggest in recent years, there being thirtyone present. These were: Gannon and Varney from New York; Prof. Dan Ford from Minneapolis; Skinner from Southbridge; Hey wood from Worcester; W. R. Eastman from St. Albans, Vt., and Boston; Hoban from Gardner: Maj. Johnston from Manchester, N. H.; Lieut. Watson from New Haven; Wardle from Grand Mere, Canada; Galusha from Sharon; Kendall from Washington; Evans from Woburn; J. L. Sanborn from Providence; Huckins from Melrose; Irving from Winchester; Hodgkins from Ballardvale; Storrs from Hanover; and the following from Boston and vicinity: W. B. Adams, Allen, Atwood, Barney, N. P. Brown, Donahue, Drew, Richardson, Hobbs, Lynch, Sears, Sleeper, and Osgood. An interesting incident of the gathering was the coming together for the first time since graduation of the four members of the class — Barney, Ford, J. L. Sanborn, and H. H. Sears — who entered college together as boys from Hyde Park.

Secretary, George G. Clark, 60 State St., Boston