CLASS OF 1905

Mr. and Mrs. George Proctor sailed February 26 on the S.S. Columbus of the North German Lloyd line for a cruise in the West Indies, and were due back on March 25.

J. Winslow Peirce and his daughter Priscilla were at the Hanover Inn several days over the 22d of February. Fat says that his boy, who is seventeen years old, is in his fourth year at St. Paul's School; he has another year there, and then plans to specialize in music.

While in Hanover, Fat Peirce called on C. C. Hills in Norwich, and reports that C. C. is the big mogul of the town and is responsible for their new water works. C. C. has just bought an old farmhouse and about thirty-six acres of land a mile or two to the west of the village, and has fixed up the house for his own occupancy. From the place the Hills have a fine view of the College and the Connecticut Valley.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hollister Frost, Eliott's widow, was pictured in the Boston Traveler of February 5 and quoted to the effect that we need more information concerning happy marriages and less news of the unhappy and disastrous ones. "The tendency to stress the unhappiness discourages young men and women, and causes them to hesitate lest they too end in heart shipwreck. We have so many of these stories. They are depressing and serve no useful purpose." Mrs. Frost wants this offset, and has done her part with her love stories with they-lived-happy-everafter ending and with her poetry on happy love.

Here's an item from California. The barbecued pig picnic of the Pacific Coast Alumni Association at Stillman Batchellor's El Venado Ranch in Sonoma county, recently reported in these columns, brought together about thirty members and their families.

At the New York alumni banquet at the Biltmore Cascades on January 29, there were four members of the class present, Bill Knibbs, Walter Emery, Ross Wilmot, and George Agry.

One day in December, Jake Smith, Stanley Besse, and George Agry had a little '05 dinner of their own at the Dartmouth Club of New York, and a good time was had by all.

If you boys in the Middle West and other parts of the country think that the news items which the Secretary produces have too strong a Boston flavor, the answer is that he is almost entirely dependent upon helpful friends within and without the class for the grist which goes into his mill. The Secretary lives in Boston and naturally hears more of the goings-on hereabouts. He is thirsty for news of the members of the class and their families living in other parts of the country, and any items which you can send in about yourself and others will be joyfully and gratefully received and passed along to the entire class membership through the columns of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and occasional reprints in the form of class bulletins. So take your pen in hand now and then, and tell us about yourself and the classmates whom you see.

Secretary, 511 Sears Building, Boston, Mass.