CLASS OF 1894

In the list of books which the department of sociology of the College has sent out to the alumni, there occurs a notice about the "Principles of Sociology" by Frederick A. Bushee, in which the book is rated as"one of the soundest statements of the principles of sociology, and the only general treatise in which an adequate treatment of the biological problems of heredity, population, marriage, and eugenics is included."

The editor of the Springfield Union, M. S. Sherman, has taken the responsibility of editing the next class report, and in order to prepare himself for this interesting task will represent the class at the meeting of. class secretaries in May. It is understood that one of the leading features of the report will be a series of travel sketches by J. P. Gifford under the possible title, "Seeing America First." Gifford will doubtless describe at length certain reunions that he had with his classmates as he and Mrs. Gifford went westward. One of these was at Chicago, where they spent an evening with the Merrill family in Oak Park. The chief event, however, in this line seems to have been an affair arranged by Townsend in Berkeley, Cal. There were present Tenney, Punch Rollins, Hodgdon, Gifford, Townsend, and Mrs. Hodgdon, Mrs. Townsend, and Mrs. Gifford. Gifford's sketches will, it is understood, be copiously illustrated by snapshots which he took along the way.

Speaking of reunions of '94 men, Secretary Merrill suggests to the editor that, while it is late, perhaps it is not too late to refer to the entertainment which First Assistant Postmaster General Bartlett gave to his classmates who happened to be in Washington last October in attendance at the National Council of Congregational Churches. Ajax Rollins, Blakely, Wallis, and Secretary Merrill were entertained by the First Assistant Postmaster General at luncheon one day, and the next day were taken for a private audience with the President. During the course of the somewhat abbreviated conversation which the quartet had with His Excellency, Merrill remarked that he had been Congregational superintendent in Vermont for five years, whereupon the President remarked, with his characteristic brevity and pertinency: "Well, you must have seen a good deal of scenery."

When Ajax Rollins was in Chicago in January, he and Grover and Secretary Merrill had dinner one evening at the City Club. Grover is now tremendously interested in constructing a new church building in Western Springs. He believes he has found the best church architect in the country. Other '94 men similarly interested should write him.

Continuing the accounts of various reunions and also going back to somewhat ancient history, in connection with the Dartmouth-Chicago game last November a number of '94 men stretched their legs under a dinner table at the Drake Hotel. These were Marden, Townsend, George Mann, Grover, Burnap.

Secretary Merrill tells the editor that a notable addition to the '94 group in Chicago has been made in the person of Matt Jones' older son, Walter, who has joined the force of the Western Electric Company. "The young man reminds everyone so instantly of his father that it is almost like having the latter with us."

Editor, Claremont, N. H.