CLASS OF 1898

"If the velocity of a railroad train, an automobile, or an airplane fills you with a fear of traveling, be reassured. Dr. W. S. Adams, of the Mount Wilson Observatory in California has seen through a new telescope the fastest speed at which any object was ever known to move. He saw a nebula hurtling through space away from the world at the rate of 2500 miles a second. Between two ticks of a clock, this planet dust covered a distance about equal to that between New York and California. Within 10 seconds, it traversed the distance around the world. Beside that speed, airplanes seem motionless and express trains may almost be said to move backward in comparison.

"The inability of the human mind to visualize such velocity was illustrated admirably when Dr. Adams' statement was made. The learned men of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science decided that it was physically impossible for matter to move at that rate in a straight line indefinitely, and that consequently space must have limits. This conclusion required a readjustment of scientific beliefs of long standing, but it was the best explanation that could be offered. Science itself is not fast enough to catch up with Nature's forces!"

I saw John Albert Anderson for the first time since graduation at the Dartmouth round-up in New York on January 29. He looked serene and happy, and has a wife and three children.

Fred V. Bennis has been spending the winter in West Sullivan, Me., with his good mother, who is approaching ninety years of age. Joe Carney and wife are spending a month in the South.

Ich Crane and wife are expecting to spend the month of March in California.

Charles Reuel Carter is often consulted in musical matters in the church that he attends in Winchester, Mass.

In a recent letter that Harry Clark wrote Doc Nolan I saw an account of a fishing expedition, and the fish caught would make any story by Baron Munchausen look like a novice. I wish I were near enough to go with Harry on some of his fishing trips such as he wrote Doc Nolan about.

Captain John Alfred Gihnan is working for Uncle Sam in Washington in the capacity of constructing quartermaster. He wrote the Secretary a good note the other day, enclosing his check for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Laurence I. Hewes, 114 Edgewood Ave., San Francisco, Cal., is busy constructing the fine roads of those wonderful Pacific Coast states. His wife is becoming a well known author.

Indian Macandrew is about once more, and is working all day. He is feeling better than he has felt for years.

Dick Marcy writes from Nogales, Arizona, enthusiastically of the country and of his experiences there.

William Howard Middleton has for many years been in Rochester, N. Y. He wrote recently and is happy and well and is subscribing for the ALTJMNI MAGAZINE.

Seth E. Moody is the successful proprietor of the Sylvan Fox Ranch in Lamont, Idaho. We all wish we could see him often.

William H. Mitchell has for many years been connected with the Nichols School in Buffalo, N. Y., and likes his job.

Allan B. Patterson writes from Napa, Cal., subscribing for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and reports that he is in good health but wishes that his prune orchard would have a better crop this year.

Robert E. Peck is rejoicing in the fact that his good wife has come through a serious operation successfully and that her health is much better than it has been for many years.

Frederick W. Robbert is considered one of the leading men in the great field of banking in New York city.

Walter Taylor Sumner writes that there are not enough hours in the day to attend to all the details in his busy life, but he is never too busy to give '9B and old Dartmouth a little thought.

The Secretary called yesterday (February 6) on Oscar P. Tabor in Worcester, and found him looking trim and well and happy. I learned through some of the citizens of Worcester that Mrs. Tabor is very well known as one of the most successful organizers of pageants in that city, and she was the one asked to arrange the pageant at the time when the founding of Worcester was commemorated a few years ago.

Recently I was a visitor (not a patient) in the office of Dr. E. O. Tabor of Lowell, Mass. We all remember Ed Tabor as our skillful organist and as one of the most graceful and effective college pitchers of his day. It is always gratifying to a friend to see another friend who was skillful in one line in youth become skillful in a great and noble profession such as is the profession of medicine. I could readily see that Dr. Tabor, by his full office, had won his way by his sympathy and skill into the hearts and lives of the citizens of Lowell.

The Secretary was present at the Boston banquet on January 26. This year was rather a trying time, for President Hopkins was under the weather and our own local president, Andrew Marshall, was also confined to his bed, so the affair went off rather quietly. A few loyal '98 men were present, but not nearly as many as we ought to have at the annual dinner in Boston. "Hoppy" fills such a place in the affections of Dartmouth men of Boston that when it was rumored he might not be present I think the numbers were affected.

One of the most pleasing honors that comes to a Dartmouth man in Boston is to be elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston. This honor came to our worthy president, Dr. Harry Goodall. He will be president of the association for the coming year. '98 has been singularly honored m this respect, for we have had two former presidents, namely Joe Bartlett and Buck Chandler. I very much hope the fellows will keep this in mind, and next year may we have two tables for '98 and every seat taken.

On Tuesday, January 29, it was my very great pleasure to be in attendance at the meeting of the Dartmouth Association in New York at the Hotel Biltmore. The party went off very successfully indeed, and it seemed unusually pleasant for me to be in attendance, as it was my first experience with this association in New York. There was one '98 man at our table whom I had not seen since graduation, namely John A. Anderson. There were also present Seelman, Nolan, Robbert, Leggett, Crane, and Crowley. '98 was well represented in the moving pictures that were thrown on at the close of the evening, for when the Alumni Council marched along in jovial procession there were Buck Chandler and Ted Leggett as natural as life. The third member, Walter Taylor Sumner, of course was on the Coast. Then later a single picture of the leader of the Alumni Fund, Ted Leggett, was shown, with all his expansive smile and money-getting look.

The Secretary was in Providence, February 4, and ran across the trail of our good classmate Cortes M. Russell. Anyone who wants to know further about Russell I shall be very happy to have write me; for it may be that the good class of '98 can be helpful there.

The fellows are sending in little notices of interest concerning themselves and family that I can put into the Class Report, and this is exceedingly helpful. May the good custom continue.

An engagement just announced is that of Miss Eleanor Duncan, Radcliffe '29, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Duncan, to Walter Priest Brockway of Portland, Me., son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Brockway of that city. Mr. Brockway, who is a senior at Harvard, prepared for college at Phillips Exeter.

Millard H. Aubey, son of our classmate Israel Aubey, became a full-fledged college man on January 24, when he entered Northeastern University of Boston. After taking a course in Northeastern for a year or so he may transfer to Dartmouth or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Miss Harriet Patey is completing her second year in the Cambridge School of Domestic Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and recently in a contest where several similar institutions were represented her work was selected with three others for special comment and exhibition.

R. J. Mitchell of Randolph, Vt., has a son in the freshman class at Dartmouth.

The '98 round-up at the University Club in Boston on Saturday evening, February 9, was a most enjoyable affair. There were thirty-six present: Dr. and Mrs. Harry Goodall and son Mr Pierce, Dr. and Mrs. E. C. Batchelder and daughter Edna, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Jones and Mrs. Jones' sister Mrs. Pullen, Mr. and Mrs. David C. Macandrew, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Nolan, Mr. Robert E. Peck, Mr. Bradley C. Rodgers and his fiancee Miss Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Chester F. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Marden and daughter Dorothy, Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Tabor, Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Littlefield, Mr. and Mrs. H. Philip Patey and daughter Harriet.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Bartlett started Saturday, February 9, on a trip to Florida.

Robert Marden and his wife and daughter returned from Florida on February 6 after spending three pleasant months there.

Secretary,57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass. Note the following clipping from a recent paper: