CLASS OF 1878

J. A. Wood has retired from the real estate business which he has conducted for many years in Brooklyn, N. Y., and located upon a small farm in Centralia, Chesterfield Co., Va., on the trolley line between Richmond and Petersburg.

Webster Dryden Smith's address is now Charleston, W. Va,, where he is reported to have "a lovely new home near his two daughters."

Lewis Parkhurst is again hammering away to drive a bill through the Massachusetts legislature providing for a new state prison to replace the hundred-year-old Bastile at Charlestown.

The Survey for February has an article by John Cotton Dana entitled "A Museum of Service," in which he analyzes the service usually rendered by museums, shows how limited is the appeal made by specimens of art or nature arranged for dress parade, points out the more dynamic service of exhibitions that display processes by which results are produced or portray the life and customs of peoples, and stresses the importance of extending a museum's service by lending its possession for the use of schools and other educational agencies.

People of New Hampshire who are alive to the civic affairs of the state must find the farewell message of Governor Albert O. Brown very interesting and illuminating reading, as a review of the various problems that ought to concern the citizens of the state. His discussion of the highway problem is of interest also to visitors from other states. His recommendation that the West Side thoroughfare, extending from Hinsdale to the Twin Mountain House, be named The Dartmouth College Road, will appeal loudly to Dartmouth men.

Secretary, William D. Parkinson, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.