HONORS TO CIVIL WAR VETERANS

Two graduates of the College, Ex-Gov. Samuel E. Pingree, of Hartford, Vt., of the class of 1857, and Ex-Attorney-General William A. Ketcham of Indianapolis, of the class of 1867, held prominent place at the annual meeting of Veterans of the Civil War last month. The former, who was Colonel of the famous Third Vermont regiment in the Civil War, took part in the annual reunion of the Legion of Honor, held in Boston, Sept. 26-28. The membership of this body to which he 'belongs is limited to soldiers of the Civil War who received the thanks of Congress or the Congressional medal for gallantry. Of such soldiers, it is reported only seventy now survive. Col. Pingree, despite his advanced age happily is erect in body, alert and vigorous in mind and still active as a counsellor of law, trusted and honored by all his fellow citizens.

The latter, Captain W. A. Ketcham, '67, of the 13th Indiana Volunteers, who was elected Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic last year presided at its annual meeting held at Indianapolis Sept. 26, and delivered a clear, forceful and eloquent address, urging the cultivation of a vital patriotism and the rigid exclusion from the country of all anarchists and other internal foes.