CLASS OF 1893

Rev. Harry N. Dascomb, recently in Y. M. C. A. service overseas, has become pastor of Plymouth Congregational church, Denver, Colo.

"The Quadwrangler" writes in the BostonTranscript of January 9:

"Just byway of renewing old acquaintances the Quadwrangler has been studying Latin again. Although he was one of the fortunate few who had a good teacher of the subject during his school days, he is finding no little enjoyment in now restudying a language to which we owe so much. Incidentally, he's learning any number of things he never knew. For all this pleasure and increased knowledge he has to thank his old

friend, Professor Perley Oakland Place of Syracuse University, who has( just finished the four-year job of writing a common-sense Latin textbook and has been good enough to give him a copy. Professor Place takes the position that the study of Latin is largely an intensive study of English, and that the teacher of the subject is not doing his full duty unless he imparts even to the beginner some vivid suggestion of the civilization attained by the Roman Empire. How much better this text book is than those recently in use the Quadwrangler has no way of knowing, but he does know that it is immeasurably better than those in use some twenty years ago. It is at once an introduction to the Latin language and literature and to ancient art and history."

Secretary, Harlan C. Pearson, Concord, N.H.