CLASS OF 1879

Died in the Grafton (Mass.) State Hospital for the Insane, May 27, 1929, Frederick Ganoe Daly. Probably in the undergraduate body of today there is no one at all resembling Daly, and under the Selective Process, in these days of psychiatric tests, it is not at all likely that he will ever have a successor. It is a satisfaction now to recall that, despite his peculiarity, he generally received kind treatment, and the world of delusion in which he lived seemed one of happiness. We simply laughed at his harmless eccentricities, not realizing that they indicated insanity. It is reported that he continued much the same through a long life. In recent years while in the asylum, at Christmas he has sometimes received a small present of fruit, etc., in the name of the class of '79.

Died at his home in Newport, R. I., January 9,1930, Frederick Prime Garrettson. At page 146 of the "Annals of the Class of Eighteen Seventy-nine" is a characteristic sketch of "Fritz" as we knew him, bright, cheerful, snappy, and though he was with us less than a year, second to no one in his loyalty to the class and his interest in the College. He attended the Forty-fifth Reunion and generally appeared as young as ever, but to a few he confided the preliminary symptoms of the progressive paralysis from which he ever after suffered and which finally resulted in complete physical helplessness though never stopping his activity. There were not many who saw him after that time, but he was in frequent correspondence with the Secretary, even after he was unable to sign his letters. Every year, unasked, came a hundred dollars for the Alumni Fund, and there were five hundred dollars for "Hough's Room," which he could never hope to see. By his will he provided that, on the death of his wife, the College should receive seventy-five thousand dollars.

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