Class of 1899

Room U on the tenth floor of the Boston City Club was the scene of one of '99's liveliest and chummiest round-ups in recent years on Saturday evening, March 1. The waiters found it hard work, as they brought in the soup, to break up the chatting groups and get them down to the routine business of eating. And when the scallops and chicken and ice cream had been disposed of, Cav struck off the chords of the familiar songs, while "Fronco" French and Win Adams and the rest crowded around the piano and made the music "go big."

In fact Bill Atwood as toastmaster had some assignment on his hands to pull the crowd back to their seats. Some of the heart-to-heart discussions that followed are state secrets for the present, for they had to do with the plans for the big twenty-fifth reunion in June. The recent Dartmouth edtorials' on Phi Beta Kappa stirred up some retrospective analysis of aims and satisfactions in college life. But the most pleasing single feature of the evening was the presence as guest of Mr. Herbert Carr of the American Express Company, brother of Dr. Homer Carr who died in Niles, Mich., last August. Tributes to Homer also by Owen Hoban and Spade Heywood added a suitably serious note to. a program holding much that was suitably bright and entertaining.

There were present twenty-two men: Win Adams, Ed Allen, Bill Atwood, Jim Barney, K. Beal, Mr. Herbert Carr, Frank Cavanaugh, George Clark, Charlie Donahue, Pitt Drew, Bill Eaton, H. O. French, Gus Heywood, Owen Hoban, Joe Hobbs, Tim Lynch, Dave P'arker, Mr. Charles Robie, Herb Rogers, Jack Sanborn, Bill Sears, and Ed Skinner.

As Dave Parker said in his remarks, with a tone that gave a weight of meaning to the simple words,—"Not so bad."

Secretary, Mel- rose Highlands, Mass.