Two of the five surviving members of the class of 1857 died in the early days of June, Samuel F. Pingree, formerly governor of Vermont, and Judge John C. Hale of Cleveland. Both men were greatly respected in the alumni body and active in its affairs and both had hoped to be at the Commencement for their sixty-fifth reunion, when they would doubtless have been at the head of the procession.
Governor Pingree was an active member of the Secretaries Association and took part in its deliberations at the annual meeting in April, while Judge Hale was prominent in all alumni activities in Cleveland. More extended notices concerning their lives will be found in the Department of Necrology.