COLLEGE'S OLDEST ALUMNUS CELEBRATES 92D BIRTHDAY

Leander Monroe Nute '54, the oldest living graduate of Dartmouth College and oldest violin maker in the United States, celebrated the ninety-second anniversary of his birth at his home in Portland, Me., April 16.

Mr. Nute was born in Milton, N.H., in 1831. Following his graduation from Dartmouth he spent several years in the West as a civil engineer. He returned to the East and was for 25 years a manufacturer of shoes in Somerset, N.H. He left the shoe industry in 1898 to take up the manufacture of violins, and he has followed this profession since that time.

On the occasion of his ninety-second anniversary, Mr. Nute was in good condition, and continues to work with his violins. He attributes his long and healthy life to a life-long policy of "avoiding worries and minding his own business."