CLASS OF 1891
C. F. Abbott, professor of government and law at Middlebury College, has been able to carry on his regular schedule of work since the opening of the college year in September, following his absence from the college for several months in the previous year on account of illness.
J. Francis Allison, who had served for a number of years as principal of the high school at Sherborn, Mass., became eligible for retirement under the pension system and retired from active service last June.
Mary Livermore Barrows, wife of M. D. Barrows of Melrose, Mass., is serving her first term as a member of the House of Representatives of the Massachusetts legislature.
On the 28th of October Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Cobb celebrated their twentyfifth wedding anniversary with the assistance of about seventy-five of their friends, who gathered to make the event of happy memory for the principals and their children, Caroline and Nathan.
Early in February R. L. O'Brien started on an automobile trip to California, expecting to be away from Boston till some time in April. He will represent Harvard University, of which he is an alumnus, at some of the Harvard alumni gatherings in the West.
Carson Abijah Smith, M.D., who represents his town in the House of Representatives of the Vermont legislature, is a member, and also the clerk, of the Committees on Public Health and on Suffrage and Elections.
Charles M. Smith, who is again serving Vermont as a state senator, has the following committee appointments for the session: Appropriations, Banking, General, Highways and Bridges, Municipal Corporations, and Rules.
It is reported that Mr. and Mrs. John Walker are spending the winter in Florida.
George M. Watson, M.D., is on a trip to South Africa, and will be away from the United States for several months.
At the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association the following '91 men were present: Bailey, Cobb, Little, O'Brien, and Rowe.
From the New York Times of January 28 are taken portions of the annual report of the board of visitors of Letchworth Village at Thiells, N. Y., a state school for the development and care of backward children. A warm tribute is paid to the services of Dr. Charles S. Little, who has been superintendent of the institution from the beginning. "Dr. Little has made Letchworth Village what it is today," the report states. "Education, scientific research, and the pursuits of a normal rural life create an atmosphere of cheerfulness and hope, with none of the depressing features which the unknowing and unthinking often associate with such a village community. The life of the child centers in the school and on the playground. Work and play occupy the day in classroom, recreation room, gymnasium, shop, laundry, garden, dairy, and elsewhere—in short, every occupation that will be found on a well-ordered farm at the appropriate season. From small beginnings Letchworth Village has grown to its present size. It has blazed new trails and set new standards. Many of the ideas which were in advance of public opinion twenty years ago are now accepted generally."
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