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CLASS REUNIONS
CLASS OF 1874
"The first fifty years are the hardest"; this thought, the fruit of past experience and hope for the future, the speaker of the fifty year class at the alumni banquet offered as encouragement for the graduates of 1924.
Under this slogan the class of 1874 gathered to renew acquaintance with the College and each other under the weight of the struggles of half a century. The College we recognized m spots. The campus was still there, if the fence was not. The College Church, Wentworth, Reed, and Thornton remained as we left them, and Dartmouth on the outside at least looked as before. The class enrolls eighty-five members in the general catalogue of 1910. Of these thirty-one are now known to be living; °f them twenty-two answered to the roll-call °n June 16. Among those present we found two Clergymen, each wearing a D.D.; four M.D.'s; six lawyers; four who had devoted themselves to education; and six classified as business. Whether any of these latter fully qualified as ma efactors of great wealth" did not appear, ut there was no evidence of a scarcity of the object of business, the dollar.
and n H 6 a^sence r- Qu>mby, who had conte all recent reunions, the class hardly knew how to stage one. In 1919 Dr. Quimby, aware of his failing health, had insisted upon the selection of an understudy to carry on in case he was compelled, as he shortly was thereafter, to give up the work. The acting secretary undertook to follow out the practice of the secretary in years before. Commencing in November, 1923, personal letters were written to each member of the class, setting forth the importance of this meeting, and later there was much correspondence between classmates. The attendance exceeded expectation. None who had promised to come failed to do so, and several others performed in excess of their promise. On came from Los Angeles, California; one from Idaho; one from Montana; one from Minnesota ; two from Wisconsin ; one from Illinois; one from New York; and one from New Jersey. The others had not strayed beyond the bounds of New England. Another would have come from Texas except for serious illness in his immediate family. At the alumni dinner it was announced that our 71% attendance entitled us to the cup.
No special celebration was attempted during the stay at Hanover. All were quartered at the Inn, and the time was fully occupied in converse with each other. We were too busy talking together to have time for other amusement, except that many of us went out and witnessed the defeat of Cornell at baseball. The leaders of the class in point of age at the top and the bottom were gone, but the second oldest and second youngest remained and were present. The oldest living member at the age of 79 was as active as any, and is still vigorously practicing law in Chicago, while the youngest, still under seventy, bemoaned his association with septuagenarians only. One member presented himself wearing the suit in which he graduated, showing that fifty years ago Hanover college and Hanover tailors turned out a perfect article warranted to endure, and attesting the perfection of our classmate's living conditions, which had preserved him and his clothes intact for fifty years.
Professor Lord, the only surviving member of the faculty of fifty years ago, gave the class an informal reception, which at its close he called a very satisfactory recitation, and in return the class voted him a perfect mark, after some discussion with him of how he used to do it fifty-four years ago. President and Mrs. Hopkins entertained the class at an afternoon tea on Sunday. The class banquet was held Monday evening. Plates were laid for the thirty-one living members. Mrs. Frank S. Streeter attended as the guest of the class, and thg ladies accompanying other members of the class filled the remaining places, so that there was not a single vacant seat. At the business meeting, Powers was elected permanent president and Parsons permanent secretary, both to hold office until the final reunion of the class somezvhere, after no one member is left in the flesh to attend the Dartmouth Commencement. The class also voted to meet again in 1929, again to win the attendance cup and to aim to equal and perhaps surpass the record made at the 25th reunion in 1899, when 83.5% of the possible attendance answered when their names were called.
FRANK N. PARSONS, Secretary.
CLASS OF 1879
Though the College did not officially open its doors to returning alumni till noon Friday, June 13, our advance guard were walking the streets ot Hanover several hours before that, and the thrifty rear guard, the following Wednesday, undoubtedly noticed that no more was charged for five nights lodging than for four.
There were eighteen of us—Bailey, Brown, Chapman, Clement, Closson, Cohen, Edgerton, Foster, Gage, Garrettson, Graves, Kilburn, Melville, Proctor, Rockwood, Smith, Thayer, and Wheatley. Illness at the last moment kept away Judge Hough, and serious illness in their families prevented the attendance of several others; still, when, at the alumni dinner in the gymnasium, the secretary heard read the percentages of attendance of the classes competing for the cup, he felt rather guilty, in that he hadn't turned in his figures; they would have shown us very near the top.
A great fiery "'79" on the front of Richardson Hall designated our headquarters, and the fact that we occupied our rooms there so little was not due to any specific objection to them —they were fine rooms—but to the fact that we were very busy elsewhere, and elsewhere was not necessarily at the exercises scheduled by the College. Though probably the class was represented at most of them (of course, Rockwood and Wheatley had to see the graduation of their handsome boys), no one went to all, and perhaps some did not attend any. They were reported to be interesting, but we were there to reune, and reune we did, early and late, in all the good old ways.
Did we meet any of the old professors? Sure. That is to say—we met some that we used to think old; they don't look that way now-—Lord, Bartlett, and Worthen. "Johnny" was just as snappy as ever, "Bub" just as humorous, and "Tommy," around whom, in a corner of the hotel piazza, late one evening, a group gathered and, for more than an hour, discussed the philosophy of life, said he could still do all his gymnasium stunts, if the doctor would only let him. A bad lot, these doctors! Regular killjoys!
Incidentally, a large party on Sunday and a smaller one on Tuesday went to Ascutneyville, where we were royally entertained by Seth Gage.
By paying the small sum of ten cents for a copy of the Daily Dartmouth we learned, with interest, that our class was leading the procession of contributors for the Alumni Fund. Four thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars ($4127) from twenty-three men. Percentage of quota 765%, and the end not yet.
The peak came Monday evening, when we dined together at "The Plaid Pig." The secretary had made all the arrangements, but, as he was new to his job and young, unsophisticated and susceptible, the rest had so little confidence in him that they had felt it necessary previously to go down the hill and investigate for themselves. Some went several times. One was seen there the following morning.
We sat at one table, just comiortaDiy ruling the quaintly attractive room. Everyone was near enough to everyone else to talk with him, and improved the opportunity. Tongues seemed just as limber as of yore, though the contents of the punch bowl, distributed by Chipper Chapman, were strictly post-Volstead. All had so much to say that no one was a lowed to monopolize the time by making a speech, at any rate not on his feet, and, without any definite plan for it in advance, by mutual consent the affair developed into a round table symposium on the subject of "The College! that was; that is; and that is to be." It was interesting.
We all could tell of the College that was, and gave it a full meed of praise. Thayer, from being a trustee, Rockwood, from being at the head. of a great secondary school, and others from being parents of recent graduates (for example, Edgerton and Wheatley, each of three) could speak with authority of the College that is; and the field was wide open for speculation as to the College that is to be, perhaps to differ even more from that of '24 than the latter differs from that of '79.
Owing to the lateness of the hour we didn't quite exhaust the subject. It was impossible to make up our minds as to some particulars.
There are only a dozen people in the world who claim to know just what ought to be done. These wonderful twelve are the Senior Committee on Undergraduate Education who had issued their pronunciamento that very day, just in time to give us some of the benefit of it.
When Dartmouth, or any other college, can devise a system by which a senior (any senior) can be made to know as much as he thinks he knows, educational problems will be solved.
Possibly this will not happen before our next reunion so we can consider the matter again. And, by the way—those who attend a fortyfifth reunion attract no particular attention, they are lost in the general ruck of other young teliovvs; but those who come back with fifty years to their credit are respected and petted; the genial Mother points to them and says, These are my jewels."
Remember that date, June, 1929!
HENRY MELVILLE, Secretary.
CLASS OF 1884
The class of '84 celebrated its 40 year reunion in its usual manner, following its custom of making each succeeding reunion better than the last. The arrangements for this occasion were made by J. F. Hill, secretary pro tem, with the invaluable aid of George D. Lord. So will did this team pull together, so wonder fully fitting were all the functions they provided for our enjoyment, so fine the spirit they injected into every detail, that every man present was sure it was the best meeting the class has ever had. The boys began coming in Thursday afternoon; Friday brought larger numbers; and when Saturday afternoon Ben George, three hours late, came in from Chicago, the roster of '84 men "coming back to give the Mother hail!" was complete—twenty-one members of the class—forty-three including wives and families. South Fayerweather Hall was headquarters. The first mass gathering was for the taking of the reunion picture in front of Old Dartmouth. The class dinner was held in the new dining hall of the Hanover Inn,—the first class function to be held in this exquisite addition to that hostelry's accommodations. Nineteen men sat down to Mine Host Fairfield's board, who served a dinner In keeping with the environment and the occasion. Those at table were Carr, Eldredge, Elliott, Emerson, George, Hill. Hinckley, Hodgdon, Houston, Howard, Laird, Lord, Matthews, Quincy, Rolfe, Saltmarsh, Starr, Weston, and Wheeler, Slade and Woodwell were unable to remain because of their services at their respective charges at North Thetford, Vt., and Lyme, N. H., on the following morning after the banquet. Emerson, vice-president, acting in place of F. H. Nettleton, president, as toastmaster, called the meeting to order. With a brief but fitting introduction to the Evening's program, Emerson called up Joe Quincy, who, being moved by the ever dauntless spirit of '84, made a splendid speech, striking the keynote for the occasion. Then followed Eldredge, Rolfe, Wheeler, and Houston, "as the spirit moves," with no particular assigned subject. Wheeler's tribute to the work of our classmate Woodwell was one of the high spots of the reunion.
At the business sessions following the banquet Emerson was elected president, Matthews vicepresident, Hill financial secretary and treas- urer, and Houston corresponding secretary. The above officers, with George, constitute the executive committee. Hill reported something more than $5000 on hand to the credit of the '84 Loan Fund. This will be turned over to the trustees, thus completing the $10,000 basis of the fund as planned in 1914.
Hill reported on Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation, as representative of the class of '84, that the full quota for the class has been collected this year.
The class was well represented at the baccalaureate service on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon a memorial service was held at St. Thomas' Church, commemorating the life work, character, and our esteem and love for our classmates who have passed away. These services were conducted by our ministers present-Elliot, Woodwell, Slade, and Hodgdon participating. It was a spontaneous and loving tribute to our departed classmates, none of the men taking part having had more than a few hours' notice of the part they were to fill. It was the most impressive service ever held by the class. There was not in it all a note of sorrow or lamentation at the inevitable, but rather a loving, grateful appreciation of the worth of our classmates, of the good and great work they had done in their respective spheres of activity. It was a voicing of our joy in remembrance that they and we were of the same goodly company, who shared in common the experiences of college days and the honors which came to them in after life, all characterized by a solemn dignity and tender affection that made the occasion truly great and always to be remembered with pleasure by those of us who were present.
On Monday the boys began to take their leave, and on Tuesday morning only eight were left to join the Commencement Day march about the old campus to Webster Hall.
Thus came to an end the latest reunion of our class—in many respects the best of them all the only regret being that more or less serious illness detained at home a number of our men who have usually been with us on these occasions.
In honor of our late class secretary, Dr. Louis Bell, the distinguished scientist in the fields of electricity and astronomy, there was dstributed to the class a pamphlet containing a reprint of the memorial article written by Edward S. King of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory, which was published in Popular Astronomy of December, 1923. This pamphlet also contains a memorial tribute compiled by a committee of the class. There were also read to the class the words of President Hopkins and Professor Page, in conferring upon Dr. Bell the degree of Doctor of Science on June 19, 1923, a few days after Dr. Bell's death This is said to be the only posthumous honorary degree that Dartmouth has ever conferred
Among other matters, the financial secretary reported (in substance) as follows regarding the "Dartmouth College Class of 1884 Loan Fund." (N.B. This is a fund raised during the last fourteen years by individual contributions from 38 of our members. The income from the fund, under the administration of the College authorities, is loaned to worthy undergraduates of the College upon unsecured notes, bearing interest, at a low rate, from the date when the borrower graduates or leaves College.)
In 1915 a part of this fund was turned over to the trustees of the College, for administration, consisting of high-grade bonds having an aggregate par value of $5000, and a then market value of $4200. The income from this $4200 to April 18, 1924, has amounted to $1,589.76, of which $1434.50 has been loaned to students.
Since 1915 there has been added to this fund (through additional subscriptions by members of the class and income from that portion of the fund not yet deposited with the College) $5011.32, consisting of cash and high-grade bonds, figured at their present market value. This $5000 is now in the hands of the financial secretary of the class, and is ready to be turned over to the College as an addition to said fund.
In all, this '84 "Loan Fund" now amounts to about $10,800, including all loans to students that have not yet been repaid, or to nearly $10,000:, excluding such outstanding loans. The fund has thus practically reached the $10,000 basis, as planned in 1914.
JAMES P. HOUSTON and JOSIAH F. HILL.
CLASS OF 1899
The class of '99, which prides itself on being one of the most united classes in Dartmouth history, mustered one hundred eighty people, all told, for its twenty-fifth anniversary. There were present seventy members of the class:
A. M. Abbott, C. E. Adams, W. B. Adams, Allen, Atwood, Barney, Beal, Benezet, N. P Brown, Burns, Cavanaugh, H. B. Chase, T. W. Chase, Clark, Croker, Currier, Dearborn, Dickey Donahue, Drew, W. R. Eastman, Eaton, Ford, H. O. French, Fuller, Gannon, Greenwood, Hawkes, Heywood, Hoban, Hobbs, Hopkins, Hoskins, Hyatt, Johnston, Jordan, Joy, Kendall, Lynch, H. A. Miller, Musgrove, Nye, Oakes, Parker, Payne, Richardson, Rogers, Rowe, J. L. Sanborn, Sargeant, Sears, Sewall, Silver, Skinner, Sleeper, Smith, Speare, Staley, Storrs; Sturtevant, Surrey, Tootell, Varney, F. A. Walker, J. B. C. Walker, Wardle, Whittier, Wiggin, Winchester, Woodward.
Among the roost welcome guests were wives and children of members who had passed on: Harry Ladd's son, Elmer Barstow's daughter, Mrs. Howard Tibbetts, and Mrs. Joe Edwards.
All told, "kits, cats, sacks, wives," there were one hundred eighty in the '99 group.
As usual, the class did something distinctive. In Robinson Hall, on the second and third floors, there was staged an exhibit of pictures, the like of which has never been seen before in Hanover. Every member of the class, living or dead, was represented. Where possible the pictures showed his childhood home; snapshots taken in college; groups of the men in college arranged by societies, teams, etc.; photographs taken at preceding reunions of the class; recent pictures of the children, the home, the auto, the office. Visitors of many classes passed in an unending stream through Robinson to see this wonderful exhibit. It represented many hours of toil on the part of the members of the executive committee, assisted in same cases by their wives.
Saturday afternoon the Ninety-Niners "chaperoned a dancing party on the floor of the Little Theatre for their young folks, then sauntered over by fours and fives to pay their respects to President and Mrs. Hopkins.
Saturday evening the ladies and young folks attended a performance given by the College Players in Webster Hall, while the men gathered at Lyme, where a substantial dinner was served at the local inn. A piano was carried by stalwart arms into the midst of the diners, and old-time songs made the welkin ring. C. H. Donahue acted as toastmaster, and most infoimal responses were given to his toasts.
Next morning, Sunday, in Rollins Chapel, the high note of the reunion was struck. The class, with their wives and children, marched in to the tune of the old familiar Offertoire by Reed, played by Sleeper, the march which in the late nineties always accompanied the presentation of diplomas.
After a prayer by Reverend Fuller and the singing of one of the old familiar hymns, Drewpronounced a short eulogy over each member of the class who is no longer numbered among the living. As he called his name, a rosebud was thrust into a wreath of immortelles until the buds equaled in number the members gone before.
In solemn procession then the class filed to the grave of Howard Tibbetts, its only member who lies buried in Hanover. There the wreath was deposited, and the class dispersed after singing Graham's beautiful Class Ode.
Sunday afternoon autos carried the party to the Melvin Adams cabin for a picnic lunch served by the Dartmouth Outing Club. A class picture was taken on the side of a hill, and a class meeting was held. Treasurer Barney, Class Agent Lynch, and Secretary Beal gave brief reports. The nominating committee, headed by Wardle, nominated (and the class duly elected) the following new officers: secretary, Benezet; class agent, Hoban; treasurer, Skinner fourth member executive committee, Drew.
After a pleasant ride back to Hanover, there followed informal walks and chats. Sandwiches were served on the lawn at Wheeler Hall to bridge over the gap between noon and nine o'clock, when the whole big family sat down to a supper party at the Hanover Inn. The young folks were seated in groups according to their ages, while the elders shifted progressively after each course. At the head table sat.Toastmaster Woodward, who had won the class cup given to the member who came the longest distance to the reunion (Seattle), President Hopkins, and the out-going and the incoming secretaries and their wives.
After the meal the room was darkened, and Clark threw on the screen baby pictures of some sixty members of the class. The prize for identifying the greatest number of pictures was awarded to Gannon, who, early in the game discovered that the photographs were arranged more or less alphabetically.
After the dinner the whole party filed out around the Ninety-Nine tree, where, as formerly around the old pine, clay pipes were smoked, then rained in fragments at the trunk Meanwhile the young folks held lighted Chinese lanterns to illuminate the ceremony, and the whole party marched slowly, singing, back across the campus to Wheeler Hall.
Next day a great group went to the athletic field, and shouted joyously over the four to two victory of Dartmouth over Cornell.
Then one by one the classmates left, although there still was a substantial group to attend graduation and the alumni luncheon on Tuesday.
L. P. BENEZET, Secretary.
CLASS OF 1909
Probably the distinctive characteristic of the Fifteenth Reunion, as the class of 1909 has just experienced it,—and has experienced it with a thorough enjoyment of which more is to be said,—is the pervading and very real sense of a quieter, deeper, and mellower friendship. The class is ripening. Less, perhaps, is being said; more is being felt.
At such a time the sayings are least important, the doings more so, the feelings most of all. Just what it is that is being felt is not easy to express. But first there is, I think, a quiet sense of a deepening satisfaction in the comradeships which the regathering renews, the comradeship not only of the men but of the place,—of the men in the place,—of the place about the men. Always it has been in part a present comradeship ; but at first it was essentially a comradeship in prospect,—one of promise. Now, creeping into it, little by little, there is the added element of a comradeship of retrospect, of memory. Freddie Carroll, the Shawmut Bank vice-president, was with us, but so was Freddie Carroll, the rollicking eighteen-year-old custodian of that damnable puppy dog from Worcester. Reggie Bankart, portly wool merchant, was there, but always inseparable from him was Reggie, mayor of Hanover during the unforgettable spring of 1909. You felt that you knew all four of those two fellows, and that with each of them you therefore had a double tie. So it is with all. And always there is less of a thump, more of a handclasp. The fifteenth reunion, set over against the earlier ones, is a reunion less of the mouth, more of the eye.
And still much was done and said,—delightfully done and cordially said. The doings began with the hearty succession of first greetings, through the corridors and all about the front of Hitchcock Hall. The place was a chorus of "Hi, you Dick Lord!" "Be damned if that isn't Jim Greenbaum, with the same old smile!" "Hello, Chet Brett, you bloody wool king!" "Greetings, Dr. Hitchcock!" Among the eighty odd men present the afternoon was one glad long laugh of recognition j while the sixty girls and score or two of kiddies brightened the color and warmed the heart.
After dinner at the Commons, we adjourned to reune again in front of Hitchcock; then "On with the dance" at the Little Theatre. Thanks to the genial and always helpful Sid Hazelton, it was second to none. The gang was all there: joy was unconfined.
Next morning, golf;some good, mostly rotten. The new eighteen-hole links with its ups and downs, its ski jumps and its toboggan slides and its always receptive woodlots, didn't keep Jack Mason from eating up an eighty-six, but saw to it that some played in the hundred and twenties. All morning the foursomes of green and white Naught-Niners rambled up hill and down dale, skirted the Vale of Tempe from the riverbank to the old Lyme road, dug up the turf from the club house to the Grassland Stock Farm,—lost golf balls and found men.
In the afternoon, while the same old godawful "class day exercises" plodded their weary way, the Niners met for a few moments to choose Phil Avery president, Bob Holmes treasurer, and let the secretaryship stay put, and to listen to words of wisdom from Roscoe Pearl and the wisdom of the world from Russell Pettengill, while both, with well-merited applause, explained the plans and the hopes of the everactive budget committee.
Then tea at the dormitory for some, more golf for many, and in the evening a play by The Players in Webster Hall, a sing in Hitchcock for the musical, a stroll to the tower for the sentimental, and the Lord knows what for the rest..
A broken night. Also other breaks, entering expulsions, exasperated expostulations, extraordinary traordinary explanations, excoriations, exquisite expletives, exhortations, exceedingly expert extemporizations, extenuations, and at dawn, extreme exhaustion. A little later, in one or two regretted instances, expeditious expeditions and exits.
Sunday, a picnic at North Sutton, some forty miles to, the southeast. All the class and wives and children attended, ate, danced, chatted, photographed, and returned. A little group of willful men golfed in a cow pasture and a marsh, after first paying a dollar to a back farmer who came down from the hill, when he saw the procession, and asked and collected a green fee, much to the later amusement of the sole porter of the hotel, who 'lowed as how the farmer had no connection with the links at all. Before they left, Jims Greenbaum, Huselton, and Hitchcock and the Secretary showed how the game of tennis should be played, while Bob Burns and other handsome men were taking the beautiful ladies out on the lake.
That evening, at Hanover, a real NaughtNine Show :—Harold Osborne with his wizard ry, Dannie Watson with his mandolin, Dick Lord with his minstrelsy, Phyllis Lord with her evercontagious good fellowship, and Russell Pettengill and Mrs. Pratt with a Napoleonic exhibition which was in a class by itself.
More golf, a baseball victory over Cornell, with a costume parade around the campus to the game, accounted for the best of Monday, with the fraternity reunions in late afternoon and musical clubs in the evening. Tuesday saw most of the exodus, with lingering groups on the porch of the Commons as most of us drove away, into the memory of a perfect reunion, and the prospect of many more to come.
JOSEPH W. WOSTHEN, Secretary.
CLASS OF 1914
The 1914 Big Tenth Bang was the magnet drawing 129 men and 70 wives and almost wives to Hanover during Commencement week. George Young and his committee responsible for the data cards can vouch for these figures. The executive committee had worked long and lustily to handle the details and a most creditable job was accomplished. The numbers returning were not enough to corral the attendance prize, but the enthusiasm and get together spirit was 100%. Jim Gregg figured dismally for the first two days until the attendance went over the minimum demanded by Perry Parsons to meet expenses, then Perry began to figure his total to meet all demands by Bill Slater and Jack Piane. These two worthies certainly stretched $25 to cover a most amazing list of events: tickets to Show and musical club concert for the ladies, tickets to baseball game, banquet for the men, outing all day Sunday, jazz band for the whole series of days, etc. In fact the funds lasted beyond all demands and there is a surplus in the class treasury at the moment.
Friday was the arrival day for most of us. Long auto trips were enjoyable and made everyone sleepy in the evening, leading to a shortened dance. Bill Taft had issued instructions to include his home town in the route from We admired his loyalty but not his judgment in the matter of roads. On arrival at Topliff Hall the entire gang gave itself over to recalling faces and names and connecting wives with the proper husbands. The Aegis had been studied religiously by many and most of the names came back quickly. It was voted that Ted Marriner with his moustache and added SO pounds had changed the most, that Roger Rice had the most distinguished bald head, but John Hazen the least hair, and that many had put on weight. The class in general still follows the lines of college days.
The costume committee did an excellent job and produced knickers, green hose, and green jersey with a green and white hat. The ladies wore a green jacket over white. Campus opinion leaned to the belief that the 1914 costume was easily the best at this Commencement. The large arounds like Snow, Healey, Stratton, etc., and the up and downs like Howe, Peppard, Pooler, Buckley, Austin, etc., lacked the trim appearance of the rest, but what of it?
During the first evening we spent our time getting reacquainted. There was a song fest in the dorm, led by our orchestra with the new songs by Barlow and Wilkinson mingled with old campus favorites. In the midst of it Dunbar arrived direct from Montreal with four assorted bags and was greeted solicitously. Red Loudon, Red's sister, and THE LADY also arrived and broke up the meeting. We then adjourned to the Trophy Room and staged a dance. No fancy clothes allowed, costumes only. It rained, but thanks to the thoughtful committee who arranged for the dorm nearest the gym, it was only a couple of jumps and no one got very wet. The party broke up in good season.^
Saturday morning Win Snow lined us up and we gave the Inn and Commons the first sight of the class en masse. The baseballists then trimmed 1919 with some to spare. Win Snow was behind the bat, Bill Taft in the box, Doc Cook on first, Jack McCullough on second, Red Loudon promoted to short, Ernie Kimball on third, Caleb Niles, Bill Hands, and Margeson in the field. String Howe led the cheers and the rest of us draped ourselves on the fence. No casualties or remarkable plays aside from two slides by Marge.
During the balance of the day the golfists made the acquaintance of the links and turned in many an alibi for poor scores, Phil Harvey seemed to be the record breaker in actual score although others gave him a run. It rained again in the afternoon for the last time during the session. Good weather prevailed thereafter.
Saturday evening the class gathered in Com mons for the banquet. Hen Koelch unlimbered his English accent for us and presided in masterly fashion. Prexy made a fine speech, outlining some of the problems of college management and suggesting the points where the classes could render support. Our jazz band rendered sweet music while we surrounded the best collection of food ever offe-red us from the Commons kitchen. Meanwhile the ladies stormed the Inn for dinner and then attended the play at Webster Hall.
Sunday dawned "brite and fair" and the crowd assembled early. Midnight howlers of the 416 Club and those sedate early sleepers gathered together to make the trip to Lake Tarleton. The ever thoughtful committee had placed rain insurance on the outing, but it was not needed. It was about 35 miles to the Lake Tarleton Club, where we had the run of the place for the day. Golf claimed the men and the broad piazzas the ladies. At lun we ate twice as much as expected. A short memorial service followed, Lize Wheelock officiating. The ladies then retired to the piazzas again while we held a business meeting. It js rumored that the ladies also held a meeting to arrange for future get-togethers at the time of football games, etc. More details of those plans will be heard in due season.
The class meeting voted certain changes in the Constitution to include a couple of new officers and provide for a five-year term of office, elections to be held at each reunion. The following were elected:
Red Loudon president, Paige Junkins vicepresident, Bill Slater treasurer, John Palmer secretary, Herb Austin assistant secretary, Win Snow marshal, Lize Wheelock chaplain; Ed Leech, Muck Margeson, John Piane executive committee.
It was voted to raise the class dues to $3 annually, this to include a subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. To clinch the matter this sum was collected from 89 men on the spot. Various kind words were said about those having the most to do with arranging the reunion, especially Perry Parsons for the elastic currency which covered not only the publicity sent out by Herb Austin, the costumes purchased by Ed Leech and George Briggs, but all the entertainment that Bill Slater and John Piane had arranged. Jim Gregg was handed a welldeserved bouquet for his labors and breathed a sigh of relief when a new executive committee was selected and he was retired.
The golluf then resumed and there was staged that stupendous match between Dick Barlow and John Peppard, both using Jim Blythe's clubs. First hole John 26 strokes, Dick 25. Second hole as follows : John teed on hat, drove head of club 150 yards, ball 20 feet. Gallery lay down in spasms. Dick using midiron with healthy swing, drove head 25 yards and lost ball. Jointly agree that this is fine Scotch game but prefer Scotch in bottles. Jim with legal language charges John $6.50 and Dick $3.50. Pictures taken to show no hard feelings. Curtain.
The Lake beckoned but the hardy swimmers included only String Howe and wife, Jim Gregg, and Ted Main. The breeze was chilly The great kid picture contest had many entries and nearly floored the committee in the matter of choice. Miss Lyon, Red Loudon, and Lize Wheelock had the brilliant inspiration of drawing for winner and on that basis prizes were awarded: Winthrop Mayo 6 years Ist Richard Castle 1 year 2nd John Presby Hands 4½ years 3rd
In the evening 1909 invited us to their sacred minstrel show at the Nugget. No acts of our own were produced but we enjoyed those of our hosts all the more because they had felt too weak to play baseball on the previous day. We must treat these older classes with respect and courtesy. More music and visiting in front of the dorm completed the evening.
Led by the band and placed in the position of honor as befits the 10 year class we marched to the Memorial Feld on Monday morning. Good seats were provided by Bill and John and a hot sun raised a burn on us all. Cornell was faded in a fine game, the first any of us had seen on the new field. The development of athletic facilities since we left has been wonderful Memorial Field has no superior in college ranks.
Mrs. John Piane entertained the ladies at tea in the afternoon. They attended the Musical Club Show in the evening and another dance at the Trophy Room completed the day and for most of us the Reunion. Many left on the night train Sunday, others on Monday and practically all were on the road Tuesday so that our representation at the Alumni luncheon Tuesday noon was slight.
It was a grand get together and for many the first return to Hanover since graduation. The wives made a splendid showing and will be more in evidence at the next reunion. Meanwhile we all know each other better and will plan to see more of each other in our several centers of population. Many could not be present for good reasons, others were not present for poor reasons. We missed them all and look forward to seeing them at the 15th. The 1914 Big Tenth Bang was a success.
HERE AUSTIN,
AssistantSecretary.
DR. JOSIAH WHITNEY BARSTOW, '46, M.D., '52.
The following appreciative outline of Dr. Barstow's life was contributed by his intimate friend, Willard W. Eggleston '91 of Washington. For a number of years prior to his death Dr. Barstow held the position of oldest living graduate of the College.
Few Dartmouth men have lived to the age of Dr. Whitney Barstow and fewer aged Dartmouth men have been blest with the vigorous mental capacity which he enjoyed until his final sickness, a few days before his death. It was my misfortune not to become acquainted with him until the last year of his life, but even then a short interview was enough to reveal the caliber of the man.
My acquaintance with Dr. Barstow came about through a growing interest in the life and botanical writingsl of Dr. Alphonso Wood, '34. Dr. Barstow had been a member of the Vermont Botanical Club for over twenty years and when a fellow member, Miss Alice Bacon, published in the Bulletin of the Vermont Botanical Club for 1909, a sketch of Prof. Wood, Dr. Barstow wrote Miss Bacon a letter of appreciation. While corresponding with Miss Bacon in the fall of 1921, she sent me Dr. Barstow's letter and I immediately wrote him about Prof. Wood and received a very interesting reply with an invitation to call whenever convenient.
The first call was in January, 1922. followed by a second in April and a third in September. The discovery of mutual friends outside our Dartmouth fraternity added to the pleasure of our visits.
To sketch the biography of a man who has outlived his college and medical college mates and his professional contemporaries is no easy task, particularly if his publications have been few. As Secretary of 1846 Dr. Barstow had done much to record the lives of classmates and friends and it seemed a pity that he, in turn, should not receive the same generous treatment. It is largely because of this feeling that the following sketch of Dr. Barstow's life was undertaken. I had hoped to find some New York physician or surgeon familiar with Dr. Barstow's work at Sanford Hall but failed completely in this expectation. Fortunately, Mrs. Barstow had known him through practically his entire professional career, since he took her father's place at Sanford Hall (April. 1854), when she was in her teens. From her much of the information in regard to his medical career has come.
Happy indeed is the man who lives sixty-two years with a helpmeet like Mrs. Barstow, who, brought up in the atmosphere of his work, helps and cares for him until the last. Our information at Commencement June 21, 1921 lacked one detail. It was Dr. Barstow's 95th birthday, his 75th anniversary of graduation and his 61st wedding anniversary.
While at Dartmouth or soon after graduation he taught in a young ladies' seminary (Tilden Seminary) at Lebanon. The following account of his teaching is in the diary of one of his pupils, and is related by a niece. "Today there was quite an excitement among the young ladies in the school, as the handsome Mr. Barstow came over from Hanover to begin his course of instruction. Many of us tried to impress him in our favor but he seemed impervious to all attacks. He is very attractive and young enough to be a very nice teacher."
June 21, 1860, was a "red-letter" day for Dr. Barstow for on that day Flora, eldest daughter of Dr. James Mac Donald became his bride. ,
The old Mac Donald house, still the property of Mrs. Barstow's sister, was the first home of the Barstows and it was here that Dr. Barstow passed beyond. On my September visit I found that the family had recently returned to the first home and Dr. Barstow told me that he began married life here and that he had come back to the old place to die. Across the way is Sanford Hall and adjoining is the estate of James Al. Mac Donald. The Mac Donald holdings are said to be among the oldest untouched parts of New- York City and the surroundings are truly beautiful.
The Barstows were blessed with six children, three sons and three daughters. The oldest son died in 1862 at three months. The third son, Whitney B. Barstow, when nine years old fell out of a boat into Lake Champlain and was drowned. It was at their summer home "Saints' Rest" at the mouth of Otter Creek, Vermont, in July, 1888. Doctor and Mrs. Barstow stood on their wharf and saw the accident without being able to save the boy. Mrs. Barstow says the Doctor never entirely recovered from this catastrophe. The second son, Dr. Donald M. Barstow, was a graduate of Yale '89 and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University '92. He became a successful. surgeon and general practitioner. On the return of his father to New York they opened an office together. A sudden brain trouble, supposed to have been caused by a tumor, resulted in the death of Dr. Donald Barstow, June 6, 1906. What a blow to his father at eighty!
The three daughters all survive. Miss Elizabeth W. and Frances B. Barstow are unmarried. The youngest daughter, Mrs. M. M. Hopkins, has one daughter, Josephine, Smith '23 and a son, Eli Whitney Barstow Hopkins, who is preparing for college at Horace Mann School.
Dr. Barstow was interested in natural history, particularly botany, and many, of his leisure hours were spent in delighted contemplation of his favorite study. He was one of the younger men who used to gather in the herbarium of Doctor John Torrey at Columbia University in the late sixties and the early seventies and was an early member of the Torrey Botanical Club, remaining an active member until April, 1892 and a corresponding member until his death.
It was at the Torrey Herbarium that he renewed his acquaintance with Alphonso Wood, which was begun in the forties in the Barstow home at Keene.
From 1887 to 1906 he spent his summer vacations at his cottage on Lake Champlain, south of Otter Creek in Ferrisburg. Here he became acquainted with the artist-author, Rowland Robinson, whose home was also in Ferrisburg. It was through this friendship that a fine painting of Dr. Barstow was made a few years ago by Mr. Robinson's talented daughter, Rachael Robinson Elmer.
Dr. Barstow took great delight in searching out the wild flowers of the region and transplanting them to his own grounds, where they received his careful attention.
While in Vermont, he became affiliated with the Vermont Botanical Club and remained a member until the last. Later summers were spent in the Catskills or more often at his place in East Haddam, Conn. At Haddam he enjoyed walking and collecting plants as late as September, 1919, when he suffered a stroke that affected his right side. At once he set to work on the left hand and soon was able to use it for writing, although from this time he wrote only to intimate friends, Mrs. Barstow usually attending to his correspondence.
At home it was cultivated plants that most interested him. Minutes of the Torrey Botanical Club meetings, frequently record Dr. Barstow as presenting and talking on some interesting cultivated plant.
His interests were broad and he continued active as long as he lived, both as a student and as an American citizen. He was a fine classical student and a ready writer. His "Trees of Flushing" makes one wish that more articles had appeared from his pen.
The "Trees of Flushing" was delivered before the Good Citizenship League of Flushing on May 9, 1893 and was published in the Flushing Evening Journal of June 8, 1893. It was republished by the League in 1914. "Trees of Flushing" calls attention to the fact that many of the fine old forests trees are still, living in Flushing, also to the fact that Flushing had been the early nursery for trees of the continent, the record going back more than two centuries.
In politics he was ever interested and ready to state his views, but he never accepted office.
He was always a loyal Dartmouth man, attending Commencement many times, his last Commencement being his fiftieth anniversary. In my first interview I found him reading the latest number of Dartmouth ALUMNI MAGAZINE and, that he was deeply interested in college matters and kept up in them. He had high regard for Dr. Hopkins and felt that he was the right man in the right place. He told an interesting story about a little controversy he had with Dr. Hopkins as an editor in his student days in which Dr. Hopkins won out.
He had a fine sense of humor and could tell a good story. He told me that President Lord used blue glasses in Chapel and the students said that he watched them behind the glasses. He had a very good story about an old appleman that visited college, which needs his telling to make it at its best. This old appleman was quite a character. The boys, of course, gathered about the cart and with busy fingers handled the fruit not always to the benefit of the apples. When the handling became too intimate the owner would exclaim, "Ef ye want em buy em, ef ye don't want em let em alone an stop mellerin on em with your thumb." Mrs. Barstow relates the following anecdote: "When coaching through the English lake country we stopped for the night at one of those delightful inns where travellers of that day were received with warm hospitality and where comfort abounded. As we entered the dining room for dinner we were met by the head waiter who with much deference placed my husband at the head of the long table (the fashion of those days) assigning me to a seat at his right. The attention was agreeable to us and we sat looking at our fellow travellers who followed to their places. When all were seated the waiter who stood behind Dr. Barstow leaned over him and said in toud tones, 'Grace My Lord'. All the guests rose to their feet and Dr. Barstow, ever ready to take a hint, at once realized that he was taken for an Anglican Bishop and without hesitation rose and with perfect composure paid grace as was his custom at his own table at home. None of our fellow travellers ever knew that he was " not My Lord' but for the rest of the journey the Doctor received 'Conspicuous deference'. The little incident always amused my husband and to the day of his death he laughed heartily at the recollection."
Any tribute to Dr. Barstow would be incomplete without extracts from a letter received from Mr. Clark Smith 'BO, son of Judge Isaac Smith '46, who was Dr. Barstow's chum in college and dear personal friend as long as he lived.
"My acquaintance with Dr. Barstow began when I was a mere child. My brother, next to me in age, was named Whitney, but was called "Whit." I noticed the day of the Doctor's funeral, that his nephew and grandson, both named after him were addressed by their relatives in the same way. My nephew, now an official in the Royal Engineers, and stationed in Egypt, is also a namesake of the Doctor's and is always spoken of as "Whit." We children knew that "Whit" was named after our father's most intimate friend, Dr. J. Whitney Barstow of Flushing, Long Island, and were familiar with his photo which, together with one of Mrs. Barstow, graced the family album. Each year the Doctor and his wife paid us a visit. We children looked forward to their coming with extraordinary pleasure. To my boyish mind, they were the handsomest couple I had ever seen. Mrs. Barstow was then at the height of her beauty and the Doctor was one of the finest appearing men in the limited sphere of, my acquaintance. Young as I was, I was conscious of the fact that Dr. Barstow was gifted far beyond the average man, although I was too inexperienced to discriminate between him and the other distinguished men who were my father's guests, at various times during the years.
As I grew older, my admiration for Dr. Barstow" increased in proportion as my ability to differentiate between him and other men. I was greatly impressed by his knowledge of Latin at a time when I was struggling with Caesar and Cicero and Virgil. My father often read the Doctor's letters aloud to us at the table. These letters seemed to me the most remarkable ones ever written. They were interspersed with Latin quotations, displaying an intimate knowledge on the part of the writer, with the language, so much so that they evoked not only my admiration, but also an emotion which was almost reverential fear. This habit of introducing Latin phrases and expressions into his letters was a life long one, and I do not believe I received a communication from him that did not contain more or less of them.
Dr. Barstow and my father were often at Hanover, during my college course, so that f met him annually, during the formative years of my life. My admiration for him, instead of diminishing as I grew older, as often happens with boyish ideals, increased steadily with advancing years. I considered him then, and always shall regard him, as the ideal of the cultured Christian gentleman, which any man cherishes in the holy of holies in his inmost soul.
My father passed away on November 28, 1898, just after the great blizzard had buried the country in many feet of snow. Railroads were blocked, telegraph and telephone lines were down, and many places cut off from the outside world. As soon as he received word that my father had gone, Dr. Barstow hurried to our New Hampshire home, and remained with us until our beloved dead was laid at rest on the banks of the Merrimac, in the old Granite State.
An hour before the time set for the funeral services, the four surviving members of the Class of 1846 held their last "reunion" beside all that was mortal of their friend and classmate. I stood outside the drawing-room door, in order that no one should enter, and heard the prayer offered by one of their number, a clergyman. Never before, nor since, have I heard such a petition as he offered. They knelt about my father's coffin, and, through that prayer, were lifted with him to the very gates of Heaven. This was their last "reunion." Shortly after, Dr. Barstow was the sole survivor of the Class of 1846, and continued as such until last December, when God called him away from earth into life Eternal.
The last time I saw him was during the last week in June, 1922. He had failed greatly and his strength was limited so I did not remain long. . . . He gave me his blessing, placing his hands upon my head in benediction, and I can hear his voice today as if it were only yesterday, and always shall, while life lasts.
As I gazed upon his countenance on December nineteenth, in all the dignity and majesty of death, with that look of ineffable peace upon his face, I realized, as never before, the true meaning of the words, "The souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity," and I knew that for him the prayer of Cardinal Newman had been granted, "May he give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at last." Sit tibi terra levis, dear Doctor
So we left him, covered with flowers, sleeping the sleep of the just, until the judgment day. God grant that we may be as ready as he to answer the call of the Master! God grant that our crowns may be as worthily earned as his, and that we too may deserve as fully as he the "Well done, good and faithful servant, Enter into the joy of thy Lord."
W. W. EGGLESTON '9l.
NECROLOGY
CLASS -OF 1867
Charles Francis King died May 22, 1924, of acute heart disease at the Homeopathic Hospital, Boston.
He was born in Wilton, N. H, January 30, 1843, the son of Sanford and Susan (Burnham) King, and fitted for college at the high school of Lowell, Mass. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated as salutatorian of the class.
He began teaching in 1864, and followed that calling through his active life. For the first three years and a half after graduation he taught at New Bedford, Mass., then in Gloucester six months, and after that in the Boston schools. In 1887 he was appointed principal of the Dearborn Grammar School in Roibury, and held that position until his retirement in 1913, when he reached the age of seventy. He lectured on methods of teaching geography before teachers' associations and institutes in many cities throughout the country, was the founder and manager of the National School of Methods at Saratoga and Glens Falls, N. Y., president of the Massachusetts Geographical Club, and member and secretary of the Committee of Ten on Geography.
His published works include these volumes: "Methods and Aids in Geography," 1888; "Picturesque Geographical Readers for Home and School," 1889; "This Continent of Ours," 1890; "The Land We Live In," three volumes, 1892; "Rocky Mountains," 1894; "Northern Europe," .1896; "Round About Rambles," 1898; "Elementary Geography," 1903: " Advanced Geography," 1906; "Suggestive Lessons in Geography," 1909; "New England Supplement of Geography," 1909.
His home for many years was at 107 Elm Hill avenue, Roxbury. He was married, August 1, 1867, to Elizabeth Boardman of Lowell, Mass. After her death he was married, July 6, 1897, to Gratia Cobb of Philadelphia, who survives him. There are also surviving three children of the first marriage, Henry S. King of Milton, Mass., and Florence B. King and Albert E. King of Brooklyn, N. Y., and two children of the second marriage, Mark H. King of Belmont, Mass., and Robert B. King of New York city.
CLASS OF 1868
Since the Commencement of 1923, when the class of 1868 observed the fifty-fifth anniversary of its graduation, five of its members have died, leaving the number of the living, so far as known, as twelve.
The last death was that of Colin Reed Wise, who died at his home in Passaic, N. J., May 19, 1924, of exhaustion following a relapse of an attack of grippe.
Mr. Wise, of German ancestry, the original name of the family being Weiss, was born November 28, 1845, in Washington, Pa., the son of Uriah Winfield and Henrietta Maria (Post) Wise. His father was a teacher at the head of a girls' school at Fort Valley, Ga., and from 1855 to . 1865 professor of Greek and Latin in Mercer University, at Penfield, Ga. He and a younger brother were prepared for college solely by their father, but their college course was interrupted by the Civil War, and they escaped service in the Confederate Army on account of their youth and by serving in hospital duty in Atlanta and Macon.
In 1861 they entered Mercer University, but in September of 1866 they both transferred to the junior class at Dartmouth, where they were graduated in 1868. They were members of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation and a short experience in teaching Mr. Wise became a civil engineer, and by 1888 had been assistant or engineer in chief in charge of the laying out or construction or management of eight different railroads in the Eastern and Western states. In 1888 he established himself as a hydraulic and sanitary engineer at Passaic, becoming in that year the head of the new engineering firm of Wise and Watson, and he so remained until his death.
For many years he was city engineer of Passaic, holding the office to the end of his life, and in that time he prepared the plans and superintended the construction of four electric railways radiating from that city, and also performed the same service for the city s system of sewers. He also did a similar work for several of the neighboring towns, having, as a notice said of him, "grasp of problems and genius for execution."
His activity continued until the end of his life, and many expressions of his fellow citizens testified to the esteem in which he was held, and also to his wide interests. For many years he was president of the Passaic Republican Club, and in 1920 he was a delegate to the Republican national convention in the interest of Hiram Johnson. His interest was shown by the fact that until last winter, when he was prevented by illness, he had not missed attendance at the annual dinner of the New York alumni of the College for twenty years.
He was twice married, first, June IS, 1875, to Miss Serena Sherwood of Spring Valley, N. Y., who died September 2, 1903, and, second, December 8, 1904, to Mrs. Lizzie Hutton of Nanuet, N. Y. There were four children of the first marriage, two sons and two daughters, of whom three are living.
CLASS OF 1874
Alexander Russell Archibald died suddenly of heart disease at the home of his son in Minneapolis, Minn., September 27, 1923.
The son of Matthew Archibald, he was born in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, July 27, 1847, and came to the States for his education, obtaining his college preparation at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He won a name in the athletic history of Dartmouth as a member of the giant crew at the intercollegiate regatta of 1873 at Springfield, when the College made its. first appearance in boating. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi.
Having taught through his college course after the fashion of the time, he became in the fall of 1874 principal of the high school Of Glencoe, Minn., and remained there two years. After a short business experience in St. Louis, Mo., he was in 1876-7 commandant of cadets at Minneapolis Military Academy, Lake Calhoun, Minn. In 1877 he established a business college in Minneapolis, which was highly successful. In 1888 he left this work to undertake various business enterprises, largely in real estate. Meeting serious losses in the panic of 1892, he again established a business school, and conducted it for several years. After surrendering this, he was occupied in giving private instruction in commercial branches until the failure of his health.
September 9, 1877, he was married to Sadie J- Appleton of Glencoe, Minn., who died in 1915. They had one son, who lives in Minneapolis.
CLASS OF 1876
Walter Clarence Frost died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage at the Glockner Sanatorium, Colorado Springs, Colo., June 8, 1924. He had been in poor health for several years, and after the accidental death of one of his grandchildren, April 26, he became decidedly worse, and was soon taken to the sanatorium.
The son of Silas Pierce and Betsey Evans (Mason) Frost, he was born in Dublin, N. H., March 11, 1851, and prepared for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich. He was prominent in the college life of his time, rowed on the Dartmouth crew at Saratoga in 1875, and was an editor of the Aegis. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa.
For the first three years after graduation he was principal of the high school at Woodstock, Vt., and then until 1884 of the Prospect School, Newton Upper Falls, Mass. He then retired from teaching, continuing to live in Newton, and was for five years Eastern manager of the Dakota Mortgage Loan Corporation, with his office in Boston. In 1889 he removed to Colorado Springs and became Western agent of the Globe Investment Company. Soon he became actively interested in real estate and mining operations. For thirty years he was secretary of the Fanny Rawlins Gold Mining Company, resigning this position only a few days before his death.
In Newton he was from 1887 a member of the school board, and in Colorado Springs ah alderman from 1897 to 1899. He had been director, corresponding secretary, and president of the Chamber of Commerce of the latter city. He was prominent in the organization of the Dartmouth Association of the Great Divide, and its president.
July 3, 1878, he was married to Ella, daughter of John Caldwell and Harriet Maria (Blanchard) Hildreth of New Ipswich, N. H., who survives him, with their two children, Hildreth (Colorado College 1901, Harvard Law School 1904), a lawyer in Colorado Springs, and Hester Augusta (Wellesley 1907), the wife of John T. Burns of Santa Monica, Cal. There are also seven grandchildren.
The following appreciation is from the pen of his class secretary: "The business aptitude which Frost exhibited so definitely in middle and later life early revealed itself. When he entered college he had earned enough to make a good beginning. He asked no help of his family, he made no borrowings; but when he graduated he had a substantial bank account. His years of teaching after leaving college he judged but temporary; he entered a more congenial field when he organized the Dakota : Mortgage Loan Corporation, afterward the Globe Investment Company. This company failed during the financial panic in the nineties, but while it was yet unscathed Frost sold his holdings, and removed, for reason of failing health, to; Colorado Springs, there for the remainder of his life, under most congenial conditions, to devote his full time to real estate,- mining, and financial interests generally.
"Frost's letters while in Colorado, were always written in a cheerful; optimistic vein, and they without doubt revealed his habitual state of mind. He was by nature cheerful, a lover of good stories and laughter. A strain of whimsical or even broader humor was evident in college days as in later years. One day; he came into the class room with his hair closely clipped. 'Well,' said Professor Parker, go ahead, what there is' left of you,' and without doubt he made one of his characteristic 'rushes.'
"Frost came of strong New England stock, of remoter Scotch and. English strains; He had a good thinking faculty and definite literary ability, and doubtless could have made a success in some literary field; but the most powerful lure was financial. . He was largely free : from vacation and traveling propensities except in the interest of his business; he was not given to sports and fads. The reunions at Hanover he usually attended and greatly enjoyed; and in turn classmates enjoyed him his virile, unconventional personality, his strong, grasp of things, his breezy sociability, and his love of fun."
CLASS OF 1877
: Warrington Somers died suddenly June 6, 1924, at the City Hospital, Auburn, N. Y. He was thought to have recovered from an operation performed May 21, and was about to go to his home, when the heart suddenly failed to act.
He was born in Barnet, Vt., July 6, 1849, the son of Bartholomew Gilbraith and Margaret (Harvey) Somers, and prepared for college at Peacham Academy. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He left college during the fall of- sophomore year, but in 1899 the trustees voted him his diploma and enrolled him with, the graduate members of the class.
In 1875-6 he was principal of Warrensburg, (N; Y.) High School, and from 1876 to 1882 of Greenwich, (N. Y.) Union School His success here was so striking that he was given the honorary degree of Master of Arte by Madison (now Colgate) University in 1877, at the same time when his classmates were receiving the bachelor's degree: at Hanover. He then went to Wellsville, N. Y., to teach in its schools, but after four months resigned to accept ah appointment as teacher of languages in the high school of Auburn, N. Y. At first he taught both Latin and Greek, but after a few years Latin alone. He continued in this position until his resignation in 1921. His success. as an instructor and disciplinarian was eminent, and he won the respect and affection of a host of pupils during his long term of service.
After the close of his teaching he served for two years on the city board of education. He was an active member of the Cayuga County Historical Society, a former president and trustee of the Auburn Y. M. C. A., and a trustee for many years of the Case Memorial Library. For some years he was a trustee and Sunday school superintendent of the First Methodist Episcopal, church, but finally he was a member of Trinity M. E. church.
February 19, 1875, Mr. Somers was married to Mary Addie, daughter of Rev. Levings H. and Sarah (Blanchard) Hooker of Peachara, Vt., who survives him. They have three children : Levings Hooker (Yale 1903), headmaster of the Adirondack-Florida School; Carl Warrington (Yale 1906, M. I. T. 1912), architectural engineer and contractor in Boston Mary Angene (Mrs. A. J. Willis) of Auburn. There are five grandchildren.
CLASS OF 1881
Arthur Sargent Hazelton died at his home in Council Bluffs, lowa, April 14, 1924, after an illness of several weeks.
The son of Charles Hazelton, he was born in Plymouth, N. H., November 7, 1855, and fitted for college at the local schools and at Kimball Union Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa.
After graduation he entered upon the study of law, for the first year in the office of Burleigh and Adams in Plymouth, for the next year at-Boston University, and then for a year at Columbia. In 1884 he went to Council Bluffs, where he taught for a short time and then began the practice of his profession. He was city solicitor for some years from 1892, state senator four years, and postmaster from 1902 to 1913.
May 16, 1888, he was married to Emma Higham of Keokuk, lowa, who died August 1, 1918. They leave two sons, Charles Sargent and Paul Higham, the latter of Dartmouth 1914.
CLASS OF 1883
Daniel Edward Bradley died May S, 1924, at his home in Hartford, Conn.
The son of Dr. Oscar Holmes and Julia A. (Spaulding) Bradley, he was born at East Jaffrey, N. H., May 16, 1861, and fitted for the Chandler Scientific Department in tlie local schools and at Worcester (Mass.) Academy. He was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi.)
After graduation he took the two-year course of the Thayer School, from which he graduated in 1885. During the summer following his first year he had been an assistant engineer on the construction of the Deerfield Valley Railroad, and upon graduation he returned to the same employment, remaining until its completion in September, 1885. For the next year he was with the Boston Bridge Works. In September, 1886, he became first assistant engineer with the Berlin Iron Bridge Company at East Berlin, Conn. In April, 1888, he went to St. Albans, Vt., as manager and treasurer of the Vermont Construction Company, finally becoming vice-president of the company. In April, 1891, he returned to the Berlin Iron Bridge Company as civil engineer and manager. In 1900 the company was absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation, and he went to New York as assistant to the vice-president of the corporation, taking charge of their steel structural work. After a year he resigned, and with two others formed the Berlin Construction Company, of which he was president. In May, 1908, a serious affection of the eyes which made him for a time nearly blind compelled him to give up the active management of the business in which he remained a director. Later he recovered his eyesight.
Mr. Bradley represented Berlin in the Connecticut Assembly of 1897. He was a trustee of Berlin Savings Bank, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers, the Thayer Society of Engineers, the Engineers' 'Club of New York, the Automobile Club of Hartford, the Hartford Club, and the Hartford Golf Club. He had made his home in Hartford since 1912.
December 31, 1883, Mr. Bradley was married to Anna Samson, who died November 16, 1900. Three children of this marriage survive him (a daughter having died early) ; Lucille 8., wife of Richard F. Paul (Dartmouth, '12), of Canton, Mass.; Marguerite 8., wife of Hiram D. Upton, of Solano, N. M.; Edith 8., wife of James P. Rogers, of Berlin, N. Y. October 28, 1903, he was married to Lucy M. Leclair, who survives him, with their daughter, Janet.
CLASS OF 1893
Rev. Harry Nutting Dascomb died May 25, 1924, at Casper, Wyoming, of apoplexy. He went to Casper May 3, to assume the pastorate of the Congregational church, preached his first and only sermon the next day, and then was stricken with the fatal disease.
The son of Rev. Alfred Brooks (Dartmouth 1858) and Stella Ranney (Nutting) Dascomb, he was born in Woodstock, Vt., October 28, 1870. Charles E. Dascomb '88 and Arthur S. Dascomb '97, both now deceased, were his brothers. His preparation for college was obtained at Worcester (Mass.) Academy. He was a member of Kappa Kappa Kappa and prophet at Class Day.
The first three years after graduation were spent at Chicago Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1896. The rest of his life was filled (except a short interim during the war) with successful pastorates of Congregational churches, in the following order: West Pullman church, Chicago, 1896-8; Imlay City, Mich., 1898-1900; First church, Port Huron, Mich., 1900-7; Grinnell, lowa, 1907-11; First church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1911-17. In May, 1918, he went to France as religious regional director under the Y. M. C. A., at Is-sur-Tille, having the largest sector in the field. On his return, he became in 1919 pastor of Plymouth church, Denver, Colo., and remained there until 1922. For some time previous to his call to Casper, he had been supplying the pulpit of the First church, Columbus, Ohio.
While in Cleveland he was president of the Congregational Club, chairman of the West Side Associated Charities, and very active in the Federation of Churches. In Denver in 1920 he served as representative of the Congregational churches on a committee investigating the street car strike in behalf of the Federal Council of Churches.
September IS, 1896, he was married to Serosa, daughter of William E. and Mary Elizabeth Wilson of Boston, Mass., who survives him. They have three children: Wilson 8., in lumber business in Portland, Oregon; Lucile Nutting, in Public Health work; Evangeline, a teacher.
Mr. Dascomb was an able, scholarly, and devoted minister, a man of high ideals and great energy, holding advanced views on economic and social questions.
CLASS OF 1895
George Willis Day died June 9, 1924, in the City Hospital, Lynn, Mass., after a second serious operation.
He was born in Lyman, Me, October 7, 1868, the son of Theodore Day. His home when in college was in Campton, N. H.. and he fitted for the scientific course at the State Normal School in Plymouth. He was a member of Sigma Chi and Phi Beta Kappa.
After graduation he studied far a time at Plymouth Normal School, taught there for a year, and then was for one year principal of the high school at Newmarket, N. H. In 1898 he went to Lynn as sub-principal and head of the science department in the Lynn Classical High School, and remained in that position for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Men's Club of the First Universalist church, the Teachers' Club, the Schoolmasters' Club, and the Lynn Historical Society.
August 25, 1897, Mr. Day was married to Belle Ham Marsh of Gilmanton, N. H., who survives him. They had no children.
Mr. Day is thus characterized in resolutions adopted by his associates in the school: "He was a tireless worker, a patient and thorough investigator, and it may truly be said of him that he worked himself to death. He set a loftv ideal for himself, and expected his pupils to attain that ideal. This possibly did not increase his popularity, but it did not lessen the respect which all his pupils felt for his accurate scholarship and for his willingness to aid them in the attainment of scientific knowledge."
CLASS OF 1901
William Leigh George, a member of this class during freshman year, died at his home in Brookline, Mass., May 28, 1924.
The son of Elijah and Susan Virginia (Howard) George, he was born in Boston, February 25, 1879, and prepared for college at Roxbury Latin School. His father was for many years judge of probate in Boston.
After leaving college he studied law, and was in practice in Boston, giving his attention largely to probate law. He was also president of a local banking company and treasurer of a local trust company. He was a member of the City, University, and Boston Yacht Clubs.
A widow and one son survive him.
CLASS OF 1903
Dr. Charles Edward Newell died suddenly at his home in Derry, N. H., April 6, 1924. He had been in poor health for some time, and had recently returned from Florida, where he spent several weeks.
He was born in Goffstown, N. H, October 3, 1875. his parents being Dr. Henry E. and Emma F. Newell. He fitted for college at Pinkerton Academy, Derry, and at St. Johnsbury Academy. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta.
At the end of junior year he left the class, and studied medicine for the next year at Dartmouth, continuing the study at the University of Maryland, where he graduated in 1906. He began practice at once in Bedford, N. H., but in July, 1907, removed to Derry, where he had since been in active and successful practice.
Dr. Newell was a Mason, a Knight Templar, and a Shriner, and a member of Central Congregational church of Derry.
January 22, 1907, he was married to -Harriet L. Chase of Derry, who survives him, with four sons and three daughters. His mother and two brothers also survive him, one of the brothers being Dr. Harry W. Newell '95.
The body was cremated at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, and the ashes were taken for burial to East Derry. Kenerson represented the class at the Forest Hills service.
The class editor adds this: "Newell had organic trouble enough so that he had known for some time that he had to go. In his conduct through the last days and months he proved himself again the true sportsman that he was, and displayed anew those qualities that had made his name a synonym among his classmates for true sportsmanship. He was not afraid to die, and did not wish anyone to be bothered by the fact that he must."
CLASS OF 1922
Thorndike Hilton committed suicide on the night of April 29, 1924, by leaping into the ocean from the deck of the steamship Orduna while crossing the Atlantic. No cause is assigned to the sad act.
The son of Henry Hoyt (Dartmouth 1890) and Charlotte (Sibley) Hilton, he was born in Chicago, 111., December 26, 1902. He prepared for college at Dummer Academy, By- field, Mass., and took his freshman year at the University of Chicago.
After graduation he studied law at the University of Chicago, and was on his way to continue the study at the University of Edinburgh.
HONORARY
Frank Wesley Preston, who received the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1887, dropped dead in his furniture store in Concord, N. H., on the evening of June 26, 1924.
He was born in Barrington, N. H., January 2, 1855, the son of Nathaniel and Margaret Jane (Ham) Preston, and was educated at rankhn Academy, Dover, and New Hampton Literary Institution. In 1878 he began teaching in New Hampton Institution, became associate principal ir 1887, and principal in 1898. In 1919 he retired from teaching, and went into business in Concord. In 1909, 1911, and 1915 he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, being chairman of the committee on education at each session.
August 18, 1879, Mr. Preston was married to Adrietta G. Hubbard of Dover, who survives him, with four children.
George Levi Kibbee, who received the degree of Master of Arts in 1919, diedl suddenly of heart disease at his home in Manchester, N. H., May 29, 1924.
Mr. Kibbee was born in Tilton, N. H., October 14, 1866, his parents soon after removing to Quincy, Mass. His formal schooling was obtained in the Quincy schools, but he did not even complete the grammar school course. A student by instinct, his ambition to acquire an education overcame all obstacles, and by wide reading and study he became thoroughly informed on a great variety of subjects, including Latin and Greek.
At the age of sixteen he began his career in journalism as press boy on the Manchester Mirror, soon doing reportorial and desk work. This work was interrupted by an experience of several years as circuit preacher in the Christian Alliance denomination, his stations extending from Northern New York to Maine. After a time he came to the Manchester Union, and for some years was on the reportorial staff, and then city editor for several years. After a short rest from newspaper work he became an editorial writer on the Union and Leader, doing work of a high quality on practically all subjects of current interest. He was greatly interested in Dartmouth, and prized highly the honor conferred upon him by the College.
February 22, 1905, he was married to Olie M. Porter of Manchester, who survives him.
1914 Crosses the Campus
DR. JOSIAH W. BARSTOW '46 From a photograph taken in 1874
