CLASS OF 1900

The Secretary has just been advised that Harry Sampson has moved from 367 Harvard St. to 5 Fayerweather St., Cambridge, Mass. The notice came too late for the change to be made in the new directory.

The class of 1900 held its fall round-up at the Algonquin Club. The notification sent the members of the class is rather unusual and is as follows:

STRANGE INTERLEWD Expurgated Version Copyright 1900 (Censured by the Censorius)

CAST OF CHABACTEBS

Hon. Nathaniel Haven Barrows, of Waterville, Maine, and Rochester, N. H.

Hon. Robert Jackson, of Concord, N. H., and Paris.

Hon. A. E. Smith of New York city, and not of Washington, D. C.

Hon. Class of Nineteen Hundred, of Hanover, N. H., and elsewhere.

ACT I Place-North Station, Boston Time—October, 1928

Nat—Why, hello, Jack. (Jack's business must be slipping if he is traveling by train— I thought only airplanes were good enough for him.)

Jack—Hello, Nat. (Gee, but Nat looks prosperous. That is what Chelsea's standpat Republicans have done for him with their (deleted) protective tariff.) Nat—Where are you headed for? (I'll bet Jack is going to New York to put on another musical show.)

Jack—l'm on my way to Concord to pep up the Democratic campaign for A1 Smith.

(It is lucky that I don't live in Maine. If I did my chairmanship of the Democratic State Committee wouldn't cut much ice.)

Nat—For A1 Smith? You're wasting your time, Jack. Smith hasn't a Chinaman's chance. (It is strange that a man with Jack's business acumen should ally himself with the losing side.)

Jack—Perhaps Smith hasn't a chance in Maine, but he will surprise you. It's a sure thing that he is going to carry Massachusetts. (These State-of-Mainers are certainly hidebound Republicans. Nat will think better of Smith the foist time he hears him over the raddio.)

Nat-You're crazy, Jack. Smith won't carry Massachusetts. (It's passing strange how a man's political hopes will warp his judgment. Jack is more of a Democrat than Chelsea.)

Jack—I'll bet you any amount that Smith carries the Bay State. (Here is some easy money. This is better than Dominion Stores or Cast Iron Pipe.)

Nat—I'll tell you what I'll do with you. You know the class of 1900 always has a round-up the night before the Harvard Dartmouth game. If Smith carries Massachusetts, I'll set up the dinners for the class at the next round-up,—if Smith loses Massachusetts, you will do the same.

(That class of 1900 never does get a square meal unless someone gives it to them. Wife Jennings must be starving—at any rate he has lost fifty pounds or more.)

Jack—You're on, Nat. That's a bet. (How Nat does love to feed that bunch. He had 'em on his hahds for a week at Old Orchard a few years ago, and here he is back for more punishment.)

Nat—So long, Jack. I must get my train. (Jack will have to raise the price of groceries to the Canadians to get ready for the licking he is going to take.)

Jack—Good-bye, Nat. (It's too bad we can't have this round-up in the new 1900 House at Hanover. But anyway, we will all be in Hanover in 1930 and we can perhaps have our class dinner in our own house. That will be worth going to the reunion for.)

ACT II A 1 Smith carries Massachusetts.

MR. NATHANIEL HAVEN BARROWS requests the pleasure of your company on Friday Evening, October Twenty-fifth, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Nine, at Sixthirty o'clock. ALGONQUIN CLUB, Boston, Massachusetts. R.S.V.P.

ACT IV Place—Algonquin Club, 217 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Time—6:30 P.M. (Come early to have a visit with the winning and losing members and with the hungry mob.)

ACTS V-VI-VII-VIII Place—Harvard Stadium. Time—Saturday, Oct. 26, 1929. Harvard-Dartmouth Football Game.

Fred Jennings presided. The Secretary made his usual report, emphasizing the reunion in June. He was followed by Charles Proctor, who spoke about the football situation in Hanover, and by Fred Jennings, who talked about the coming Harvard game. Bob Jackson was asked to explain more about the dinner, but he devoted most of his talk to football, having just seen the Columbia game. Judge Prescott made several wise comments from the bench, and attempted to unravel the mystery accompanying the special bridge game that was played at the spring round-up at Rye, N. H. John Long, representing the New York alumni, spoke next.

The meeting was closed by a short talk by Walter Rankin, who, in turn, urged us to think of the reunion, of all that it has meant in the past and will mean to us in the future.

Thirty-four members of the class attended, the largest gathering that we have ever had at an indoor round-up. The dinner was splendid, and Nat Barrows was an ideal host. He certainly fulfilled his obligations in a wonderful way.

The members who came from some distance to the reunion were: Edson Barker from Plymouth, Charles Proctor and Perry Fairfield from Hanover, Johnny Long and Neilly Gibbons from New York, and Ben Prescott from one of the smaller towns in New Hampshire. Every one, with a few exceptions, was here from Boston. Judge Davis came up from Plymouth, Mass. This is not a long trip unless there is a heavy fog.

It certainly was a grand and glorious affair. Bradlee Rich has had quite a serious physical and nervous upset. He has been leading a very strenuous business life, and practically wore himself out. Since August he has been at the Butler Hospital in Providence under the care of Dr. Arthur Buggies, Dartmouth '02. This is Dr. Ruggles' own hospital, where he has had unusual success in cases of this nature. Bradlee is getting along very well, but is not yet able to see any one or correspond with any one.

Mrs. Guy A. Ham announces the marriage of her daughter, Geraldine, to Dr. Bussell Lowe on Saturday, August the tenth, 1929, at Laconia, N, H.

The Secretary has been advised of the following changes in address: Jasper M. Gibson, with Contract Waterproofing Company, 185 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. Home, 165 Elgin St., Newton Center, Mass.

C. T. Miller, Home, Bellerich Apts., 301 South 15th St., Philadelphia, Pa,

Secretary, 10 State St., Boston