CLASS OF 1870

Horace Fletcher, the expounder of "Fletcherism," who died January 13 in Copenhagen, Denmark, of bronchitis, after a long illness, was for a time a member of this class in the Chandler Scientific Department.

He was born in Lawrence, Mass., August 10, 1849, went to sea at fifteen, and on his return fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover. During his stay at Dartmouth he was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity, now Beta Theta Pi.

On leaving college, he entered the employ of Russell and Company at Canton, China. After some years spent in the Far East, he returned to America and engaged in various lines of business, from which he amassed a comfortable fortune.

At the age of forty-five his health had become seriously impaired from a combination of ailments, for which his physicians procured him no relief. Undertaking to solve the problem for himself, he regained health through the method which has become known as "Fletcherism", which consists in brief of the thorough chewing of all solid foods and the slow sipping of all liquids taken into the mouth. After the recovery of his health he devoted his time largely for many years to Propagating his theory, publishing several books and lecturing widely on the subject. For some time during the war he was connected as a food economist with the Commission for Relief in Belgium. In recent years he had lived largely abroad.

In 1909 Dartmouth conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master of Arts.