CLASS OF 1905
Harry Smith and his wife and three-year-old daughter spent the winter at Palm Beach, Fla., aboard his yacht. They plan to be there until the early summer, when they are to return to Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. McClary, of Malone, N. Y., announce the birth of their son, William Pickett McClary, on November 29, 1925. He is their third child and second son.
Bourne Wood has been in Florida getting into the real estate game.
Rufus Day, who is dean of the School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, was appointed last spring by the acting president as chairman of a committee, consisting of five members of the faculty, to study all phases of the athletic situation at Michigan. The report of the committee was published on January 30, 1926, as a supplement to the Michigan Alumnus. The appointment of the committee was a result of the discussion of a proposed new stadium. The committee in its report favors the construction of the stadium, but only if coupled with a general plan for the further development of physical education and intramural sports, and with a reorganization of athletic control so that athletic policy may be placed under the authority of those charged with the determination of general educational policy.
In the Boston Herald there was published' on February IS to 17 a series of three articles containing interviews with the new president and the deans of the University of Michigan, in which Harvard and Michigan are compared. The interview with Rufus Day appears in the last article, and, as summarized by the Herald, his belief is that the state universities are likely to specialize more particularly in the vocational and technical fields and the endowed colleges in the more purely cultural courses. Rufus and his family plan to spend the entire summer in Hanover, and will occupy the Guyer house on Park St.
Harry Fleming has recently been on a trip to Florida.
O. Henry's story of the man who tried in vain to go to jail, only to be sentenced when he did not wish it, was duplicated in judge Ralph W. Reeve's court in Lynn, recently, according to the Boston Transcript. A man named Home was several times arrested for drunkenness, and asked the court for a five-day sentence, but when he explained that he used veronal tablets instead of liquor the case was placed on file. A few days later he was brought into Court again on the charge of drunkenness and refusal to pay a taxi fare, and asked for a $5 fine with the condition that he be allowed to work out the fine by five days in jail. Judge Reeve imposed sentence of twenty days.
Edwin Newdick has recently been reappointed as neutral arbiter for a term of five years for the shoe industry at Haverhill, Mass.
The following are the children of members of the class who are now in college: Ruth Knight, sophomore at Radcliffe; Louise Campbell, freshman at Lake Erie College; Martha Chamberlin, freshman at Lake Erie College; Thelma Gates, freshman at Middlebury; Betty Harwood, freshman at Northwestern; George A. Hersam, Jr., freshman at Dartmouth. The girls seem to have the best of it so far.
Midge Reid is planning to organize a clambake for some week-end during the summer at his camp on Gould's Island, which is on the Ipswich River near the old town of Ipswich, Mass. The camp is only about an hour's run by train or automobile from Boston, and Midge hopes that at least 25 or 30 men of the class will be able to come. More about this later.
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