Class of 1894
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Jones were again hosts to the class of '94 at their hospitable home at Newton Center, Mass., on the evening of October 21. The following forty-one members of the class were able to respond to their invitation: Adams, F. C. Allen, J. E. Allen, Ames, R. W. Bartlett, Berry, Blakely, Boyd, Brown, Claggett, Clogston, Colby, Dutton, Ford, Gifford, Griffin, Hall, Hardy, Hurd, Jones, Knowlton, Lewis, Lyon, McGroty, Marden, Martyn, C. C. Merrill, Norris, Palmer, Parker, Phillips, Sawyer, Sherman, B. A. Smalley, F. L. Smalley, Spooner, A. W. Stone, E. M. Stone, Tenney, Thurston, Townsend. Also Robert Burroughs, eldest son of Sherman Burroughs.
Of the eighty-six men who graduated in the class of '94, fifty-nine have at different times attended these round-ups, and this year considerably more than half of the living members of the class were present. Increasingly they are becoming a factor in deepening the tie, already strong, which binds the members of this class together. The absolute informality of the gatherings, the simple chance to renew acquaintance, the securing each year of the attendance of one or more who have been kept away in previous years and whom the rest have not seen for a long time—these and other elements combine to make an occasion which lingers in memory from one year to the next, or where attendance is impossible the next year, for an indefinitely long period. The members of the class cannot thank Mr. and Mrs. Jones enough for the fact that such yearly roundups are held, and even more for the exquisite way in which they are conducted.
One of the interesting outcomes of this particular evening was a telegram which was sent Professor James F. Colby at Hanover, congratulating him upon his recent recovery from illness and expressing the hope that he would be with the class at their thirty-fifth year reunion in 1929. The following reply was received to this telegram : "I thank you most heartily, and through you, as secretary of your class, if I maydo so, all of the 41 names of '94 meeting at M. B. Jones' on the 21st inst., for your very kind message congratulating me upon my recovered health, and expressing the hope that I might be present at your reunion in 1929. Such remembrance, especially by your class, was deeply appreciated, and by what it implies forms one of the largest compensations that a teacher can hope to win and preserve. If Providence permits I shall rejoice to meet with you all in 1929."
Announcement has been received from Mrs. Hattie R. Hyland of Dallas, Texas, concerning the marriage of her daughter, Myrtle V., to Mr. William Hayden Ford, on Thursday, May 26, at Philadelphia, Pa. Those who had the good fortune to meet Billie at the Dartmouth Club in New York last winter will miss him next winter, but will rejoice in this greater happiness which enables him to be in his own home.
Secretary, 19 South La Salle St., Chicago
