CLASS OF 1899
The best Christmas news for '99 was in the 141 pages of the Twenty-Fifth Class Report, distributed through the mails the week before the holiday. Other items of news for the present are naturally scarce.
George Huckins's oldest boy, Joseph G. Huckins, has been elected captain of the cross-country team. The injury which kept him out of some of the competitions in the fall is not likely, it is thought, to trouble him in the future.
It may not be generally known that Maurice Dickey is the class baby of the class of '74. His father, Myron P. Dickey of that class, is no longer living, but twelve of the twentyfour surviving members were back in Hanover last June. It was the only class Maurice had any compunctions seeing '99 beat out for the Commencement Reunion Cup.
We note in the American Mercury for January a page review of the new Encyclopedia Britannica. The reviewer finds a deal of satisfaction in the new American emphasis in this work, both in topics treated and in authorities treating them. Kaymond Pearl is one of four such American authorities singled out for special mention.
Tony Willard is rapidly becoming a commuter to New Hampshire and to Massachusetts from his headquarters at the University of Maine. He promises soon to offer stern competition to some of '99's other notable long-distance hikers. He may be getting in trim for that long-awaited reunion in Seattle to be sponsored some time by Bones Woodward. Tony's trip this time was to attend the meetings of the American Astronomical Association at Harvard, December 30—January I—January1—January 2.
Charlie Donahue and Tony had some good get-togethers during Tony's stay in Boston. That Wentworth Hall Association will not admit that it plays second fiddle even to the A. A. A.
The Dartmouth Club of Georgia is looking for a live year under the presidency of Harry Wason, just elected.
Horace Sears is dividing his attention impartially between Florida and Texas, when he's not in New York. He is office attorney for the newly reorganized investment bond firm of Brandon and Company. He writes that his son, Alfred Dana, is at present a steel inspector, also inspecting concrete floor slab constructions. In stormy weather the boy is on the job drafting at the office, 10 East 47th St., but when the clouds break he climbs twenty or thirty flights of stairs, and ladders for a few more, to help the little old city of skyscrapers keep its head up out of the dingy harbor fog. Occasionally Horace sees former Professor Stoughton at his Wall St. office, or "about 11 a.m. sees Alson M. Abbott scurrying through the corridor of 120 Broadway to his office to cut off his coupons."
Secretary, 41 West Kirke St., Chevy Chase, Md.
