Class of 1914

Those of us who have journeyed to New Haven, Harvard, and Hanover have seen three tough games to lose. It may help to look forward to using that splendid freshman team next year, the moment we are taking a lot of back talk around Boston which we wouldn't take last year.

In the Yale Bowl we were seated right at the middle of the field, and there was a grand turn out. A well lubricated stranger in our midst used his voice continuously but otherwise the gathering behaved itself. There were more than we have space to name, but we must mention a couple of moustaches. George Briggs still sports that bristly red one. The words of Bill Slater best describe the other: "Seems to me that you ought to make mention of John Peppard's moustache in some manner befitting the damnable looking thing".

Ted Lavin was seen too far away to inquire his new address. His mail is being returned. Information, please.

Our usual twenty-five appeared at thei dinner before the Harvard mass meeting. Red Loudon graced the board and shared the honors for distance with Page Junkins from New York state. Page is seeing his first Eastern football in years, and is about the happiest looking cuss you can imagine. Don't know how he would look after a string of victories.

In the Stadium we were on the busy goal line. Last year in section one or two, whichever it was, all the action took place in front of us. This year at the other end of the field we saw it all. Aborn wore a special lid all last season, and we rather blamed our defeat at New Haven to its absence. He brought it to the Stadium, but it didn't work. He must have overworked it. That game will go down as the best in years, irrespective of the result. One of the Boston papers said that at $4 that was about five cents per thrill. Not in our day have we seen one to equal it.

With an unbeaten Brown team and two defeats to wipe out, we looked for a real game in Hanover and saw it too. There must have been a crowd there, but with no rallying place at noon it was hard to spot them unless you stayed over night. Metropolitan parking regulations prevented stopping to see John Piane, but A 1 Richmond, living in the suburbs, was easier to find. He has films of 65 snap shots taken at the 10th, and will get copies for $2 per set if enough are interested.

From the Alumni Fund literature just distributed, we see that 194 men of the class donated, and we raised 101 per cent of the quota. That is some record for Mart Remsen and his helpers to turn in. If that many would pay their $3 to Bill Slater he would feel a good deal happier than he does at the moment.

Jack Dellinger has gone to Tampico for the Compania Mexicana de Petrolio El Aguila. Try that one over.

Paul Brown has been prodded by Red Loudon until he writes that he is "an inexperienced young man. unmarried, of thirty-three summers, with lots of insurance and good health." If that information is of value to anyone, why go to it. Paul and Red are with the same firm in Minneapolis.

String Howe is changing location from Meriden to Syracuse, still with the same company, however.

Paul Wilson was at Hanover all the way from Bethel, Vt., almost thirty miles. He is deputy sheriff of his metropolis. His wife was along to keep an eye on him after reading all the publicity regarding the Vermont official who has figured so prominently in the New England papers recently.

Chuck Kingsley, one of the million or more legal lights of New York city, wrote recently that a copy of Dan Chase's new book, "Hardy Rye," would shortly land on my desk. It has just come, and on the front page reads, "to Charles Kingsley of Port Washington, Long Island: a better judge of rye than myself." If this good start carries through, the yarn will make a lot of friends. Dan still lives in Holliston, Mass., but the book is published by Bobbs-Merrill Company in Indianapolis. So few of the boys are writing books that this column will comment on all known publications free gratis for nothing. Dan writes a four-generation New England novel. Who is next ?

On our publicity drive last month mail to the following was returned. Information as to their present location would be appreciated: Chester Barrows, Leland (Doc) Bullis, Frank Donovan, Steve Fordham, Paul Hazelton, Harold Ingersoll, Ted Lavin, Ralph Kinney, and Luther Pattee.

Assistant Secretary, , Wellesley Hills, Mass.