Class of 1910

Morton Cushman joined the Worcester contingent last fall. He is with Brewer & Company, and is living at 160 Russell St.

Rollie Reynolds has been promoted to provost of Teachers College, Columbia University. This position is that of first assistant to the administrative head of the institution.

Wilkie sent your Secretary a fine bunch of reunion snapshots, which will come m very handy when we come to get out the next class report. If anyone else has any, please send the negatives or a print.

Ray Seymour has taken an apartment at 85 Barrows St., New York. This is a bachelor apartment in Greenwich Village. Tenners visiting New York and calling on Ray must make reservations at least six w eks in advance!

Chuck Crawford is now in Milwaukee, located with the firm of public accountants, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company, 68 Wisconsin St.

I quote at length from a letter from Fritz Rainey. He was married about three years ago to Miss Emily Eaton, Syracuse 1923, "who is also a crank on the same subject," and this explains the "we" of the letter.

"We spent about two months last summer in the cave section of southwest France and in the Roman colonies near Nimes. The cave district about Perigord and Les Ezies is a rich field for the archaeologist. The country is of the rim-rock type, with huge canyons produced by streams cutting through the limestone. Some of the valleys, even now, have their streams beneath the surface. As is the case in our own cave district, the walls of the canyons are honeycombed with caverns and rock shelters, which once housed man of the Cro-magnon era, and later man of the Moyen Age. The former period is, of course, the more interesting. Excavation under rock shelters has produced much in the way of silex, both in perfect condition and chipped flints, wonderfully carved bone implements and bones of prehistoric animals and of man. The caves themselves are storehouses, I might say art museums with walls for the canvas upon which the Cro-magnon depicted his ideas of bison, reindeer, cave bear, horse, and man. The early artist did his work from 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, but his colors are still easily seen. His knowledge of perspective and his skill in the suppression of details for purposes of suggestion are astonishing. We had no time for actual excavation work ourselves, but only made a survey of the district and laid our plans for a return trip. The procedure is simple. One leases a rock shelter for a year or so and goes to work. What he finds is his with a little red tape. There are enough sites for all, and the field is not crowded. Our work in the Roman colonies was, of course, but sight-seeing and studying in the libraries and museums of Nimes, Aries, Avignon, Orange, Vaison, Le Baux, etc. Summer before last, we had a horrible disappointment at Carnac. We expected to do excavation on a site we did not think anyone knew about, and found, on our landing there, that a member of Parliament had secured all rights for himself. However, we had quite an archaeological de studying the prehistoric druid and preBreton remains of the district. It will be fifteen years, we calculate, before we can return for another whirl, that time in the Dorgonne valley. The only news about myself is, that I have been elected recently to Phi Delta Kappa, the honorary graduate national education fraternity. I guess I have told you that I am an editorial writer for the Evening Bulletin. I shall probably give up teaching entirely and go in for news work of the type of which I enclose a sample. I won't have to decide that feature till July first."

Secretary, Florence Ave., Norwood, Mass.