CLASS OF 1877

Secretary, John M. Comstock, Chelsea, Vt. Dr. William F. Temple has retired from his active medical practice in Boston, and says: "I am going to take a little interest in a New Hampshire farm, pigs, hens, apples, etc., just to play with and try some experiments in horticulture, which I have always desired to do but could never find time for."

John J. Hopper has retired from his work in New York as civil engineer and contractor, but he is taking his retirement in somewhat different fashion. He writes: "I am occupied every minute of the day attending to my private affairs or advancing some fad of mine like the short ballot, proportional representation, the Torrens law, and such things. Most of my time, however, is taken, up by writing articles on old times in upper Manhattan. My family has lived here for over one hundred years and I am now probably one of the oldest inhabitants here. Just as present I am writing some articles on four little free schools that were in operation in Harlem long before the present Board of Education was established. As the records of these schools were practically all lost if they were ever kept, most of my information has to be gleaned from collateral sources, and you can imagine that this takes time. While there is no money in this, of course it is interesting to me personally because both my grandfathers were trustees of one of these little schools, and my mother and father attended one."

But J. Edward Ingham is not retiring! He has left the assistant superintendency of the Congregational- churches of Idaho to assume a pastorate at Grand View in that state, having a parish 75 miles long and 25 miles wide, with no competition from any other denomination.

And Wilbur F. Bryant, judge of the County Court of Cedar County, Nebraska, has not laid his armor off. Listen: "Before the adoption of prohibition, I was the wettest man (in sentiment) in Cedar County; but, by the irony of fate, the enforcement of prohibition is in my hands. I think no one could complain that I do not enforce it. It is the law, and that should make every good citizen a prohibitionist. As a Roman Catholic, I narrowly escaped excommunication for my opposition to parochial schools in the Constitutional Convention. But I have refused to recant or apologize." The past year has brought him a severe affliction, his eldest son, Eugene, who was wounded and gassed in the Argonne fighting, having become insane from shellshock.

Elizabeth Boardman (Fuller), wife of George H. Child, died suddenly May 15, 1922, at their home in Charleston, W. Va.