CLASS OF 1886

John G. Thompson, after twenty-five years' continuous service as first principal of the State Normal School at Fitchburg, Mass., has been given a leave of absence for one year from September 1, to assume the duties of efficiency director for the Simonds Manufacturing Company. Mr. Thompson was superintendent of schools in Leominster before accepting the principalship of the Fitchburg Normal School. He is an educator of wide repute, a very capable business administrator, an author of school text-books, and a poet of real ability. When recalled by his college-mates as a brilliant mathematician, his later emphasis of work in English and music is naturally of striking interest. Mr. Thompson is chairman of the Fitchburg Memorial Commission, and of the Fitchburg Open Forum, trustee of the Public Library, and vice-president of the Choral Society.

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