CLASS OF 1886

James W. Newton, New England manager of the Yawman-Erbe Company, with headquarters in Boston, was recently elected president of the local Dartmouth Club.

John W. Thompson, principal of the State Normal School at Fitchburg, Mass., has just published through Silver, Burdett & Company a patriotic reader for grammar grades. The formal title is "Lest We Forget—World War Stories." Miss Inez Bigwood is associated with Mr. Thompson in the publication of this book. In the issue of the Journal of Education of July 25, reporting the annual meeting of the National Educational Association, held early in that month in Pittsburgh, Mr. Thompson is mentioned as delivering an epoch-making address on "Manual Arts for Social Needs and Daily Living," in connection with the session of the Department of Elementary Education. Miss Jean Lee Hunt of the Bureau of Educational Experiments is quoted as pronouncing it one of the ablest addresses she ever heard at the meetings of the N. E. A.

Harry B. Burley, non-graduate, is president and treasurer of the Boston Insulated Wire and Cable Company, 65 Bay St., Dorchester, with home in Brookline.

Recent marriages of sons of '86 men are those of Campbell, Chase, and Richmond.

Walter F. Osborne, proprietor of the Harbor View House at East Gloucester, Mass., and former collector of the port of Glouces-ter, died the night of October 8, following an operation. A fuller notice will appear in the next issue of the MAGAZINE.

Secretary, William M. Hatch, 221 Columbus Ave., Boston