CLASS OF 1893

The twenty-fifth year reunion of the class of 1893 brought back to Hanover twenty-two graduates and one non-graduate, as follows: Penniman, from Missouri; Jarvis, from Pennsylvania; McKay and Bowers, from New York; Tetlow, from Rhode Island; Lougee, from Maine; Griffith, Martyn, and Sparhawk, from Vermont; Cox, Gordon, Greeley, Russell, Saben, Gustin, and Abbott, from Massachusetts: Dodge, Weston, Baker, Mann, Miller, Chadbourne, and Pearson, from New Hampshire.

Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Greeley, Mrs. Lougee, Mrs. Mann, and Mrs. Pearson accompanied their husbands; and there were two daughters and four sons of the class present: Miss Gordon, Miss Pearson, Pearson '20, Griffith '21, McKay '21, and Baker '22. Arnold '19, another son of '93, did not remain in Hanover for Commencement. During the reunion it was brought out that Dascomb, Ebbs, and Chadbourne have sons in the service in France, and that Baker's oldest son, the "class baby," recently enlisted in the National Army, following his marriage.

The only fixed events on the reunion program were the dinner—an unexpectedly good one—in the billiard room at College Hall on Saturday night, and the class picture in front of Dartmouth Hall on Sunday morning. The various events of the abbreviated Commencement program were attended as individual preference indicated, and at the alumni luncheon Monday afternoon President Cox spoke eloquently for '93. In accordance with a promise made some years since, the trustees of the College recognized the silver anniversary of the class by granting its petition made in 1913 for a B.S. degree to Penniman "as of 1893."

The impressive and inspiring features of the quiet, war-time Commencement took hold of the minds and hearts of the men of '93 as of the other graduates returning to Hanover; and this feeling took definite form at the class dinner, when President Cox spoke forcefully in favor of celebrating the twenty-fifth year anniversary by making a creditable class gift to the College, and headed the subscription list with $500. Twenty-two other men made up the total to $1,740, and a committee was named to see that a total of at least $2,500 is reached.