CLASS OF 1899
Again our attention must be called to the Necrology columns of the MAGAZINE, where will be found a brief summary of the life of Harold Bruce Kirk, who died in Chicago, June 26, 1923.
A unique occasion, at least from the standpoint of '99, was that luncheon conference on immigration policy held at the Men's City Club in Washington, D. C., on May 19. The subject up for discussion was as to what biology and sociology can contribute to the proper development of this policy. The two speakers were Dr. Raymond C. Pearl of Johns Hopkins and Prof. Herbert A. Miller of Oberlin. Ray has figured prominently also, later, in articles in Collier's and the Pictorial Review, while "Ped" has been active on the "committee of inquiry on coal and civil liberties," and in the conference on prison conditions in Ohio.
On August 1, Horace H. Sears, having qualified as a member of the New York bar, opened an office at 149 Broadway, New York city, Room 825. He will seek, still more actively than before, to combine engineering and legal practice.
Both Frank A. Musgrove and Jim Walker have successfully weathered operations during the past several months, Frank at the Quincy, Mass., Hospital, and Jim at the Portsmouth, N. H., Hospital. Mushy is as keen a sportsman as ever, taking in the returns of the Firpo-Dempsey bout by radio while convalescing. But his brand-new yarn is a real bear story that is almost as good as Charles Dudley Warner's. In fact, Warner's only advantage is that he is reputed to have killed his bear, while Mushy beat his in an unadvertised free-for-all cross-country footrace in the vicinity of the extreme head waters of the Cockermouth.
Entered as members in good and regular standing of the class of 1945, Dartmouth College: Paul Donahue, born August 9, 1923 ; Robert Chamberlain Joy, born August 23, 1923.
The most recent '99 hike was that of George Clark, who spent nearly three months the past summer following the trail westward to Seattle and down to southern California. As nothing less than a whole volume would do this trip justice, we will content ourselves with a bare summary. He called on George Rounds in Detroit, spent two days each with Luther Oakes in Minneapolis and Albert Tootell in Missoula, Montana, and just missed seeing "Bones" Woodward in Seattle because the latter was at a distant point on Puget Sound recuperating from his recent automobile accident. But he visited with Jack Ash and his family in Corvallis, Oregon, and went motor sightseeing with Arthur H. Brown in Portland. His train was just ahead of President Harding's going down the western coast, and it was in the Yosemite Valley that he learned by radio of the latter's death. A reunion with Arthur Kimball in Pasadena, and a flying visit with Walter Eastman and Dr. Cushman in Chicago on the way back ended the '99 features of the trip.
It was at least odd that Professor Gerould of Princeton with his wife should actually have visited Dr. Woodward in the Northwest not far from the same time 'chat George was himself in the vicinity, but that George and Jerry should actually have met in September by pure accident at a performance of "The Covered Wagon" in Boston.
And it was not so odd that Herbert Rogers and "Buck" Burns, calling at the Plymouth farm at different times during their summer vacation, should have found it deserted. Even Tim Lynch was far away, enjoying with Mrs. Lynch the beauties of Cape Cod at South Chatham.
But all these criss-cross meetings and missings weave one pattern,—that of the Twenty-fifth in Twenty-four, when all paths again converge on Hanover.
Secretary, Kenneth Beal, 55 Botolph St., Melrose Highlands, Mass.
