Class of 1854

The Congregationalist of July 10 contains an interview of some length with the widow of Rev. Grosvenor Clarke Morse, a pioneer home missionary in Kansas, who died in 1870.

A recent issue of the Lewiston Journal contains a write-up of Leander M. Nute, one of the three survivors of this class, from which we quote: “One of Dartmouth’s oldest grad- uates is a resident of Portland and Maine’s prize violin maker for the year of 1919. For L. M. Nute, now 88 years old, received his de- gree from the Hanover institution way back in 1854, tried civil engineering in the West, manufactured shoes in Somersworth, N. H., for twenty-five years, and finally settled down to a task he loves, that of making violins, moving to Portland sixteen years ago to be with one of his children. Mr. Nute’s prize violin played down a dozen others in the recent contest held in Portland under the aus- pices of the Maine Violin Makers’ Associa- tion. It is his best workmanship, he admits, the result of twenty years’ experience.”

Secretary, Concord, N. H.