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Alumni Notes

NECROLOGY

CLASS OF 1859

ROGER SHERMAN GREENE, secretary and last survivor of the class, died at the home of his daughter in Seattle, Wash., February 17, 1930. He had been there since August last.

The son of Rev. David and Mary (Evarts) Greene, he was born in what is now the Roxbury district of Boston December 14, 1840. He was a member of Psi Upsilon.

After graduation he began the study of law in the office of Ex-Governor Carlos Coolidge of Windsor, Vt., and then taught for some months at New London, Pa. Resuming his law studies in the office of Evarts, Southmayd, and Choate of New York city, he was admitted to the New York bar in May, 1862.

In September, 1862, he enlisted for military service, and was commissioned second lieutenant of Company I, Third Missouri Volunteers, being promoted to first lieutenant in March, 1863. He served with that regiment in the operations on the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers and around Vicksburg, being seriously wounded in an assault on Vicksburg. In August, 1863, he was commissioned captain of Company C, 51st United States Colored Volunteers, and remained in service until his discharge, November 24, 1865. During 1865 he was detailed as judge advocate.

In January, 1866, he began the practice of his profession in Chicago. In 1870 he was appointed by President Grant associate justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory, and in 1879 promoted to be chief justice, serving until 1887. He then practiced his profession in Seattle until 1917, when he retired from active work. Of late years he had resided in Oakland, Cal.

He was actively interested in all public movements and philanthropic work in Seattle. From 1895 to 1912 he was chairman of the committee on river and harbor improvement of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in the building of the Lake Washington canal. In 1888 he was the candidate of the Prohibition party for congressman, and in 1890 for governor. His devotion to law observance and his opposition to mob rule was shown by an incident in 1882, when he endeavored to cut down two men who were being lynched in Seattle, and was prevented from doing so only after he was forcibly seized and overpowered. He was the first president of the Washington Children's Home Society, first chairman of the Theodora Home, first president of the Seamen's Bethel, and first president of the Seattle General Hospital.

The honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the University of Washington in 1887.

August 15, 1866, he was married to Grace E., daughter of Jesse Wooster of Naugatuck, Conn., who died in 1917. In 1918 he was married to Mrs. May Collins Jones of Oakland, who died in January, 1929. His daughter, with whom he finally lived, is Mrs. Cyrus A. Whipple of Seattle.

CLASS OF 1871

JUDGE JONATHAN SMITH died February 28, 1930, at his home in Clinton, Mass., after a short illness, having been stricken February 23.

The son of John and Susan (Stearns) Smith, he was born October 21, 1842. His birthplace was the house built by his greatgrandfather, William Smith, on the old Smith homestead in Peterboro, N. H. William Smith was one of the pioneers of Peterboro, a member of the first provincial congress of New Hampshire, that met at Exeter, in 1775, and one of those who pledged their private property to sustain the Colonial cause against Great Britain.

Jonathan Smith, son of William Smith and grandfather of Judge Jonathan Smith, remained on the old place and spent his active life in cultivating the farm. He served in the capacities of deacon of the "Unitarian church and selectman of the town for many years. In politics he was a Federalist and then a Whig, and he represented his town in the legislature for 11 years. He was 80 years of age at the time of his death. His son, John, like his ancestors, followed the occupation of farmer. John Smith died when 78 years of age, having been selectman of the town, a representative to General Court, and for 40 years a deacon of the Unitarian church. His wife, Susan, born in Waltham, Mass., was a daughter of John Stearns, and died at the age of 60.

Having lived in Peterboro until he was 18 years old, Jonathan Smith went to Keene, N. H., to learn the printer's trade. He enlisted November 1, 1861, in Company E, Sixth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, and was discharged December 20, 1862, at Baltimore, Md., by reason of disability, after serving through Burnside's campaign in North Carolina and in Pope's campaign and a portion of McClellan's campaign in Maryland in the summer and early fall of the same year. He re-enlisted August 16, 1864, in Company E, First New Hampshire Cavalry, with the rank of sergeant, and was discharged at Concord, N. H., with the regiment July 15, 1865, at the close of the war. He never fully recovered from the hardships and exposures incurred in the service.

He prepared for college at New Hampton Institution, New Hampton, N. H., and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1867.

After graduation he edited the Coos Republican at Lancaster, N. H., 1871-3; then studying law at Manchester, N. H., he was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1875, and for three years served Manchester as city solicitor. In 1878 he moved to Clinton, Mass., took over the law office and practice of his classmate, W. B. Orcutt, and there made his home for more than fifty years. From the first he was actively interested in the legal, political, educational, religious, and philanthropic life of the town. For several years he was town solicitor of Clinton, and for forty-two years was connected with the Second District Court of Eastern Worcester, first as special justice and later as presiding judge. In 1886 he represented Clinton in the Massachusetts legislature. He was president of the Weeks Institute of Clinton; chairman of the board of health; president of the Clinton Home for Aged People; for thirteen years president of the Worcester Conference of Unitarian Churches. He sought and found relaxation from the strain of professional work not in travel or sport, but in a wide course of historical reading, study, and research. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the Peterboro Historical Society. He founded and for more than twenty years was president of the Clinton Historical Society.

He wrote and published the following books: History of Old Trinity Lodge; The Home of the Smith Family; The Smith Family Reunion; and these pamphlets The Married Women's Statutes; The Law of Strikes and Lockouts; Some Phases of Shays' Rebellion. He also wrote many magazine articles on historical subjects, besides preparing numerous sketches and addresses for special occasions.

December 13, 1876, he married Tirzah A. R. Dow of Canterbury, N. H., who died August 30, 1881, leaving a daughter, Susan Dow. February 23, 1886, he married Miss Elizabeth C. Stearns of Clinton, who died several years ago. He is survived by a daughter, Miss Susan D. Smith, and a sister, Miss Caroline Smith, both of Clinton, and a brother, Jeremiah Smith of Red Hook, N. J.

This is an imperfect record of a busy, useful, and honorable career. WM. S. DANA.

CLASS OF 1872

JAMES TRASK WOODBUKY died at his home in Francestown, N. H., March 3, 1930, of pneumonia, after a week's illness.

He was born in the house in which he died, July 81, 1847, his parents being Jesse and Hannah (Duncklee) Woodbury, and prepared for college at Francestown Academy.

The first two years after graduation he spent in the Thayer School, from which he graduated in 1874, the only member of the second class sent out by that school. Not entering upon the practice of engineering, he taught for two years, being principal of the high school at Goffstown, N. H., for one year, and for one year at Wilton, N. H. Being needed on the home farm, he then returned there. His father dying in 1889, he came into possession of the farm, which he carried on for the rest of his life. He served for many years as town clerk, on the school board, and as library trustee, was many times moderator of town meeting, represented the town in the legislature of 1893, and for over forty years was clerk of the Unitarian society.

July 27, 1875, Mr. Woodbury was married to Mary M. Lufkin of Goffstown, who died May 28, 1928. They had three children: Almon Lufkin died in infancy; Mary Ella is now the wife of Arthur J. Miller of Francestown; James Lufkin died in the "flu" epidemic of 1918. There are five grandchildren living.

The following tribute is from the local paper:—"By the death of Mr. Woodbury the town loses a valued citizen. He was a kind friend, and his death means the passing of one more of the generation of old New England stock. He faced difficulties and overcame them sturdily, meeting loss and grief with courage and faith, regarding labor of some sort as obligatory, and he was one of those splendid characters that are the bedrock of our American communities."

CLASS OF 1874

HOMER PIERCE LEWIS was born in Claremont, N. H., July 28, 1849. He was descended from Mayflower stock and from a family which had always made New England its home. He was the son of George Gilbert and Adeline (Labaree) Lewis. His early education was secured in Claremont, and his college preparatory work was done at Kimball Union Academy. He graduated from Dartmouth in the class of 1874, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The devotion of his life to the cause of education was expressed even prior to his graduation from college, for he, like so many other students of his day, taught school during the winter months. His first appointment after graduation was as principal of Pinkerton Academy at Derry, N. H., where he remained until 1876. He was then advised to go West to improve his health, and accepted a position in Davenport, lowa, where he remained until 1883, as principal of grammar and high schools. In that year he went to Omaha, Neb., where for thirteen years he was principal of the high school. He then returned to his native New England, and from 1896 to 1918 held executive positions in the public schools of Worcester, first as principal of the English High School, then as principal of the South High School, and, during the last fifteen years of his service, as superintendent of schools. In August, 1918, he retired from active educational work and devoted his life to study and travel. While his physical strength allowed, he spent the winters in California and Florida and summers in Danville, Vt., where he had established a home. These years of com- parative leisure gave him the opportunity for the expression of those scholarly instincts which were so characteristic of him. During Mr. Lewis' active years, he associated him self with the American Institute of Instruction, the National Education Association, and many other clubs of educational and cultural aims. During his early residence in Worcester, he was instrumental in founding the Economic Club, which today is one of the most representative organizations of that city. During its early years, when its membership was small, it was a discussion or open forum club, but during recent years, with a membership of several hundred, it has invited to speak before it the leaders of economic and political thought throughout the nation. Mr. Lewis was proud to have been associated with the founding of the Club, and was deeply gratified when, two years ago, he was made its honorary president. He was the joint author of the Lippincott School Readers, and assistant editor of Larned's History of England, also the editor of an edition of "The Courtship of Miles Standish.'"

A simple enumeration of the positions held by Homer P. Lewis and the literary work done by him in no way does justice to his great interest in the quest for knowledge and the application of learning to everyday life. At no period of his career did he lack interest in some particular field of scholarship. He was thoroughly trained in the classics, and yet the most modern of problems was a direct challenge to him.

During his long service in the Worcester public schools he was responsible, more than anyone else, for the establishment and development of preparatory schools within the public school system. These in a very real way were the forerunners of the junior high school movement. He also introduced midyear promotions, which still are a part of the Worcester school system. To him, as superintendent, fell the task of changing the English High School, of which he was once principal, into the High School of Commerce to meet the demands of a modern city for business trained high school graduates. How well this task was performed is in a measure indicated by the fact that today this school is the largest educational institution in Worcester, enrolling nearly 3000 pupils.

To a very wide circle of friends and acquaintances, the death of Homer P. Lewis, which occurred February 18, in Danville, Vt., was a severing of ties which bound a close relationship. To have worked with him on educational problems was to become acquainted with a man who was endowed with great capacity for sympathy with his associates and at the same time actuated by the highest standards of professional achievement. He was always courteous, kind, and thoughtful of associates. His generosity was of that quiet type whose depths were known only to himself. The number of children in the schools who were helped through times of stress in their homes was not known even to the benefactor. He felt a kinship equally with the humbly placed and with the most fortunate. No better evidence could be found of the place which he occupied in the hearts of his associates than the following quotations which have reached his family since his death. A teacher who served with him in one of the high schools of Worcester has written:—"I have always thought of Mr. Lewis as a dear friend and a fine gentleman. My years with him were very happy." And from another:—"His quiet kindliness and sprightly wit were always a keen joy to his friends." And from still another:—"We are thinking of a lifetime of work well done as we remember Mr. Lewis." A more extensive appreciation came from Alonzo N. Henshaw, Ph.D., who was assistant principal of the Omaha High School when Mr. Lewis was its principal. Dr. Henshaw has written: "He was one of the most remarkable men I ever knew, possessing a combination of qualities I never have seen united in one man. He had great powers of application, a keen, logical mind, getting at the heart of every question he took up, and was never content with superficial knowledge, but aimed at and attained a mastery of his subjects such as few teachers would even dream of trying to secure. As principal and superintendent of a city system he has left his mark on education. I am thankful to have had the advantage of teaching under him; it has been of untold benefit to me. What I have written is only a small part of what I could say in appreciation of one whose memory I shall always revere and love."

Nature endowed Homer P. Lewis with the qualities of the gentleman. He was patient to a fault. Among the trials of administrative work in a city system of schools he was never known to be hasty or partial in judgment. The right decision was sure to be established, in his opinion, through the very nature of the right. To a man of such qualities the opportunities of life were the means through which a higher social order might be established for betterment of his fellow men.

Mr. Lewis was twice married—to Kate Rogers of Boston in 1878, who died in 1880, and to Elizabeth Goodson of Omaha in 1891. Mrs. Lewis was her husband's companion and co-worker during the entire later period of his life. She survives at the home in Danville, Vt. Funeral services were held in Danville on February 21, with interment in Boston. WALTER S. YOUNG 'Ol.

CLASS OF 1878

REV. GEORGE HOLLEY GILBERT, Ph.D. (Leipsic), D.D., died suddenly February 11, at the home of his son and namesake at Wellesley Hills, Mass. Interment was at Dorset, Vt.

Dr. Gilbert was born at Cavendish, Vt., November 3, 1855, son of Oliver C. and Harriet Elizabeth (Holley) Gilbert. The family moved to Dorset in 1856, and this was ever afterward the family home.

He prepared for college partly at Burr and Burton Seminary but finally at Kimball Union Academy, and came to college with the full determination to lead his class. He carried out that purpose to the letter. He has led the class in scholarship to this day. The task required very studious habits in college. He roomed alone and took little part in either sports or less formal frolics. For this reason his delightful social qualities were not recognized except by a few intimates until quite late. He did, however, take his full part in his fraternity (KKK), in all serious class activities, and in the customary religious observances. It soon came to be known that he could be depended upon to speak his mind in support of his convictions, and would stand up for his own dignity or that of the class in whatever presence. When in freshman year a conscientious tutor assigned one more exercise in Greek composition on the eve of a vacation than the class had reckoned upon, he headed a committee to prepare that exercise for all the class to hand in in print, and it is safe to say that a class never handed in a better prepared lesson. He was known more than once to voice to the faculty protests that the rest of the class expressed only among themselves. One of his protests called forth a characteristic response from Prof. J. K. Lord. What it was all about is long since forgotten, but when Gilbert declared that his conscience would not permit him to conform, the Professor replied, "Gilbert, you remind me of the man who, being asked what he meant by conscience, said it was that something within him that said 'I won't.' " Whatever may have been the justice in that particular instance, Gilbert's conscience proved to be predominately of the "I will" variety, and highly effectual at that.

After graduation he went to Germany for two years, studying at Leipsic, and in his spare time traveling on foot over the nearer , portions of Europe, meeting Vittum in Switzerland on one such trip. This walking habit marked the one athletic sport in which he engaged, and in recent years he has more than once issued a challenge to Parkhurst, who was champion of the three mile walk in college days, to renew a contest in which he hoped to wipe out the humiliation of defeat suffered at Parkhurst's hands. At last accounts the pair were looking forward to doing the Dorset Trail together. This jocose profession of humiliation at defeat in any contest was a phase of humor in which he frequently indulged. In 1913, answering a class questionnaire which asked among other details whether one had suffered disaster of any kind, he answered, "Yes, Gregg won first prize in Latin poetry."

After his two years in Germany he entered Union Theological Seminary, graduating in 1881, and, being awarded a fellowship for foreign study, again went to Germany for two years, devoting himself mainly to the Semitic languages, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and even studying the Cuneiform for the sake, he said, of the light it throws upon the Old Testament. Again he availed himself of vacation periods for travel in Belgium, Holland, England, and Scotland.

He obtained his Ph.D. at Leipsic in 1885, a degree which he valued even more highly than the D.D. bestowed very appropriately by Dartmouth in 1894. His thesis for the Leipsic degree was upon "The Poetry of Job," and included a rhythmical translation which was pronounced by Prof. Delitzsch "a masterpiece." The thesis was published by McClure in 1889.

On his return to this country he spent a year in Vermont, preaching occasionally and writing. In 1886 he was called to the professorship of New Testament literature and interpretation in Chicago Theological Seminary, a chair once occupied by former President Bartlett. Here he continued for fourteen years, doing much literary work in expansion of the main theme of his professorship. Indeed, New Testament literature and interpretation comes near defining the field of his principal labors throughout life. In 1917 he stated the task he was especially interested in as "Christianizing the Bible." His latest book, just issued by Macmillan, bears a title tallying with this interest, "The Christian Content of the Bible, or the Bible reduced to the Standard in Jesus." The same may be said of the article entitled "Juggling with the Bible" which appeared, supported by a full-page portrait of the author, in the Homiletic Review for October, 1922.

He resigned from the Seminary in 1900 and returned to Dorset, the home of his boyhood, where, with the exception of a few years at Northampton, Mass., while his children were in school, he continued to reside until the end. During all these thirty years he led the life of the scholar and author, preaching now and then, but reaching his larger audience with his pen. The list of his books is a long one, and that of the periodicals in which his articles appeared is widely inclusive. Through them all his influence must have extended far. His style is simple and lucid, and while he held high rank among Biblical scholars, his aim seemed to be to put the results of his high scholarship into the hands of the ordinary man. When he was not engaged upon some literary project he was reading Latin or French or Hebrew, German or Greek, chiefly the latter two, which were his favorites.

He worked also with his hands in garden or about the home. All nature interested him. He was fond of the birds and knew all the species found in Vermont. He knew the flowers, and was studying the ferns and mosses. Modest and seemingly reserved, he was nevertheless ready to take his part in the life and circle, narrow or wide, in which he moved. His son says, "Above Nature, came his love of his fellow man. While he did hold himself back, he was vitally interested in all our Dorset people and in all the members of '78. Many is the time he has commented some item which related to his class." This habit of commenting was illustrated by his letter to Classmate Caverly on receiving from him a photo of the group in attendance at the reunion in 1913. The letter was printed in the report of that reunion.

It was one of the few reunions at which he was not present, and he characterized with gentle humor the pose of the group and of each member of it.

His humor was always gentle, but always genuine. Few men so well deserve the title "a gentleman and a scholar" which students of the seventies were accustomed to apply (with varying adverbs and conjunctions) to several members of the faculty. For though he led the life of a student, he was no recluse His social side, his artistic side, his neighborly side, were fully developed. The following response to the class secretary on a recent occasion will serve to indicate both his public spirit and his initiative, for he was the moving spirit of both the enterprises referred to, founder and president of the first, initiator and promoter of the second:

"When we pass the 60th and 70th milestones, we are likely to be more interested in our avocations than in any professional work we may do, and so in reply to your card asking for personalia I will mention two of my avocations.

"First is the Dorset Society of Natural Science, now in its eleventh year. It has a membership of about seventy-five, holds six or eight meetings a year, and has had among its speakers members of the faculties of Middlebury, University of Vermont, Dartmouth, Smith, Columbia, Beyrut and the Rockefeller Foundation, as also members of the Federal Bureaus of Agriculture and the Coast Survey. The man from Dartmouth is Professor Poor, who has given us several excellent addresses.

"My second avocation is the Dorset Trail, this especially during the last four or five years. It is a skyline wilderness path connecting seven summits of the Taconic Mountains. A good walker would go over the trail from end to end in ten or twelve hours. The highest elevation is 3800 feet, and the total ascent of the trail is about 6500. At one end of the trail is Jackson Peak, so named in honor of a Dartmouth man, William Jackson, who graduated in 1790. The views from several points are comparable with any scenery in New England. It would give me pleasure to tonduct any member of '7B over the Dorset Trail."

He worked himself, and enlisted boys to work with him, in clearing and blazing the Trail, had secured markers for it similar to those in use around Lake Placid, was planning for a steel tower on the highest peak, and had issued in attractive form, with his literary touch, an illustrated sketch of "The Dorset Trail." This activity, physical and mental, he kept up to the last. His latest book was just off the press.

In his early days he tried his wings at poetry, and his family treasures a collection of his poems. Portions of two of them were read at the final service in Dorset. He prepared one to read at the fifty-year reunion which so impressed the listeners that they begged him to allow the secretary to print it as a part of the proceedings, and he seemed to consent, but modesty got the better of him, and in response to the secretary's final plea he said it had been "consigned to oblivion."

Dr. Gilbert's domestic life was ideal. He was married in 1886 to Miss Flora Louisa Gates of Barton Landing, Vt., whose death in 1926 shook him to his foundations. A classmate to whom he had expressed his feeling of desolation, wrote him that in view of the consolation he had administered to others, and of the certainties we all must face, he must have been in some measure prepared for separation, to which he replied: "In thinking of the contingency which has now become a fact, I never even began to realize what loneliness it would bring." This sufficiently characterizes the nature of the fortyyears companionship between the pair.

Six children were born to them, five of whom survive, as follows: Harriet E. (Smith '09), now Mrs. George S. Davis of Nashua; George Holley (Dart. '14), late principal of Wellesley, Mass., High School, and since January in a similar position at Ardmore, Pa.; Wilfred C. (also Dart. '14), a graduate of Harvard Law School, now engaged upon legal reference work in the Congressional Library; Arthur W. (Dart. '21) instructor in Teachers College, Kansas City; and Dorothy L., now teaching in Maiden, Mass., High School; Bertha Gates, the second child, died in 1912 while a student in Vermont University

So Dr. Gilbert was something of a patriarch. And he had the satisfaction of seeing his fine family all liberally educated and well established in the work of the world, with eight grandchildren following on to keep up the traditions,and maintain the lofty ideals he had set before them. His was a serene and productive life, well rounded, and happy in closing at a climax, undiminished by any decline.

Of the twenty-four present at reunion in 1928, he is the fifth to pass on. And each of the five had attained high success in dealing with those intangible values at which as President Hopkins defines it, a liberal education is aimed.

CLASS OF 1882

CHARLES SHEDD CLARK died very suddenly at his home in Somerville, Mass., January 30, 1930, just after observing his seventysecond birthday. He had been about his usual avocations up to the day before his death, and without anything to warn him of his approaching end. Neuralgic pains were followed by apparent heart attacks the afternoon and evening of his death, which became frequent and more severe until shortly after midnight, when he died sitting in his usual easy-chair.

So closed a notable career and passed away a commanding personality from many important circles.

He was born in Lowell, Mass., January 19, 1858, the son of William Leslie and Josephine (Shedd) Clark. Of Mayflower stock, tracing his ancestry to Captain Myles Standish, he possessed the rugged frame and sturdy vigor of these distinguished forefathers. Tall, erect, and broad-shouldered, he was an impressive figure in any company.

He fitted for college in the public schools of Somerville, and in 1878 he entered Dartmouth College. His musical ability at once brought him into prominence and made him much in demand. Throughout his course in College he was a leading tenor upon the college church choir, and as such was always reliable and faithful. Graduating in 1882, he received his degree of A.8., and later in due course that of A.M. Immediately after graduation he became a teacher in the public schools of Washington, D. C., where he served successively as principal of a large grammar school and supervising principal of a very important district. Still active in music, lie served several prominent churches as leading tenor, choir-master, and precentor. Besides these duties he took a course in the evening law school of Columbian University, where he graduated in 1886 with the degree of LL.B.

While in Washington, in addition to these duties he was interested and active in many circles of church and society. He was president of the Washington Congregational Club, president of the Washington Dartmouth Club, and a member of many other committees, clubs, and councils of a professional, musical, and philanthropic nature. In 1908 he resigned from his position in Washington, and became superintendent of schools in Somerville, continuing in this work until June, 1928, when he resigned on reaching the age limit of seventy, as provided by the laws of Massachusetts. Although compelled to permit his retirement, the school committee created and elected him to the honorary office of superintendent emeritus, in which position his skill and experience could still be of service to the city. As superintendent of schools his career was successful to a marked degree. Untiring in his efforts, and earnestly seeking the best possible training for the youth of the city, he brought the schools to a high state of efficiency. He felt a personal interest in every pupil and teacher, and was able to inspire them with his own earnestness and zeal in the cause of education. Not content with following beaten paths, he sought in every way to make the years of schooling produce the highest results. The system of junior high schools, whereby the pupil secures an additional year of training in high school work, was of his devising, and has largely been adopted in the progressive cities and towns of the land.

In Somerville and throughout Massachusetts he was identified with practically every movement for the betterment of the community, in church, education, philanthropy, and general welfare. A member of the Playground and Recreation Commission, of the directors of the Y. M. C. A., of the Boy Scouts, of the Red Cross, of the Somerville Hospital, of the Masonic fraternity, of the Rotary Club, and of sundry musical groups, as well as of the National Education Association and the New England Schoolmasters' Club, he was an active participant and leader in them all. The esteem in which he was held in the city was well attested by the fact that on his death all flags were placed at half-mast, that the mayor and an exmayor were among the bearers at the funeral, and that the services were largely attended by men, women, and children from every walk in life.

Mr. Clark was married December 30, 1884, to Carrie M. Spring of Lebanon, N. H., daughter of John L. Spring, a prominent attorney there, and sister of Arthur L. Spring and Clarence W. Spring, each of Dartmouth 'BO, and of John R. Spring '9B. But one child graced their union, Marion Spring Clark, a teacher of lip-reading in the public schools of Cambridge, Mass.

The funeral was held Saturday, February 1, in the Prospect Hill Congregational church, of which Mr. Clark had long been a deacon, and on the following day the remains were taken to Lebanon, N. H., and laid to rest in the Spring family lot, where his wife had preceded him in August, 1925.

FRANK S. PEASE.

CLASS OF 1888

The sudden death in Boston February 18, of Dr. HARRIS RALPH WATKINS of Burlington, Vt„ came as a shock to all who knew him. It had been realized for some time that he was not in robust health; he had gone with his wife near Christmas time to spend the winter in Florida, but no one realized that he was in any critical condition. In Tampa, however, late in January, symptoms most serious developed, and he was rushed to Boston, where he died following a major operation.

Funeral services were held in Burlington, in his late home there, conducted by Dr. I. C. Smart, pastor of the College Street Congrega- tional church, of which Dr. Watkins had long been a member. Six Burlington physicians served as pall bearers. Temporary interment was in a receiving vault at Burlington, later interment to be at Newbury village, Vt.

Dr. Watkins was a native of Newbury, born there March 8, 1866, the son of Dr. Eustace Virgil Watkins, Dartmouth Medical School 1850, who had spent his entire professional life in the little town. The maternal grandfather of Dr. Watkins, Ira Tenney, also was a doctor for many years settled at Hartford, Vt.

Educated in the public schools of Newbury and at St. Johnsbury, Vt., Watkins entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1884, graduating in 1888. His professional education he received at the Long Island Medical College in Brooklyn, N. Y„ and at the Medical College of the University of Vermont, where he received his degree in 1892, standing as one of the ten honor men of his class.

He settled in Burlington, where his ability was early recognized, resulting in a large practice and a well-deserved standing in his profession. He served as city physician, and was appointed demonstrator of anatomy and adjunct professor of anatomy in the Medical Department of the University of Vermont, holding the latter position for fourteen years, until 1910, when he resigned. He also served on the staff and as attending physician of the Mary Fletcher Hospital of Burlington, and later, upon his resignation, he had the honor of being appointed as a consulting physician of that hospital. He also served as attending physician and surgeon at the Fanny Allen hospital of Winooski. While he retired from active practice some twenty years ago, he always maintained a warm interest in the work and success of these institutions, with which he had been so actively connected. He held membership in various medical organizations, including the American Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association, the Vermont State Medical Society, and the Burlington and Chittenden County Clinical Association, once having served as president of the latter organization.

He was married to Nellie Elizabeth Chapman on September 26, 1894; of this union there were two children, Eustace Virgil Watkins, born February 28, 1901, who died a tragic and heroic death at Monterey, Cal., September 14, 1924, and Walter, born December 28, 1902, who died July 10, 1903.

He is survived by his wife, one sister, Mrs. Lucia Watkins Bayley, wife of Edwin A. Bayley of Boston, Dartmouth 1885, and two nieces, Mrs. Emily Tenney Morgan, wife of Owen Morgan of Hartford, Conn., and Mrs. Marian Bayley Buchanan, wife of Dr. Edwin P. Buchanan of Pittsburgh, Pa.

A distinctive personality, jovial, hearty, loyal to his class, "Wattie" will be sorely missed by his classmates. Peculiarly had he grown also into the life of his adopted city of Burlington, where he had long been held as one of the leading citizens. In 1819 he was defeated by a narrow margin in a contest for the mayoralty of the city, but it dampened not at all his interest in city affairs. The Burlington Free Press in an appreciative editorial, February 19, could say:

"Dr. Watkins was an enthusiastic lover of Burlington, thoroughly interested in every project to promote its welfare, improvement, and adornment. His last exemplification of this intense loyalty was in connection with the radical changes made during the past season in the interior of the College Street Congregational church, to the new decoration and other improvement of which he gave incessant attention as well as financial support.

"Dr. Watkins kept up a thoroughly live interest in all public questions. He was a Republican of the old school and held very pronounced convictions relative to the party's fundamentalprinciplesand its policies.

"A host of friends admired Dr. Watkins for his whole-souled geniality, for his fine spirit of cameraderie, for his spontaneous neighborliness, and his readiness to do his part. He was a generous giver to every worthy cause."

FHED L. PATTEE.

CLASS OF 1895

It has long been a tradition among the Haverhill Pages that each man's duty is to conserve his inheritance, live fully in his community, and leave children and associates to carry forward for their generation. No Page amasses unneeded wealth, no Page delights in newspaper headlines, and no Page has ever written an autobiography.

To this compelling tradition, NORMAN J. PAGE was faithful.

He was born near East Haverhill, N. H., in the stone house which his grandfather had built on the farm which his great-grandfather had cleared, and his parents, frugal, orderly, laborious, were also well read and independent. They were solitary Democrats in a marsh of Republicanism. So were their children and so are their grandchildren.

Norman Page's college course was interspersed with teaching winters and laborious summers. For six years, in academy and college, he paid nothing to restaurant or eating club, for in economic independence he cooked his own meals in his own room and lived well. He had neither time nor opportunity for the Hanover society of the gay '90's, and his record still stands as the only undergraduate who never spoke to Hanover woman or girl in four student years.

He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, a fraternity that then, and now I hope, regarded highly literary and scholastic qualifications. I know, because I was considered but not chosen.

This man was a scholar by nature and inclination; he stood high in a brilliant college class, and after his graduation he did postgraduate work in Dartmouth, he studied at Paris and Grenoble, and he took his master's degree at Boston University.

For thirty-five years he served his state as teacher, high school principal, and superintendent of schools, appreciated, loved, and respected. For the last seventeen years he was superintendent of schools in his own town and of other nearby towns, and he taught and guided as pupils and teachers the children of his own schoolmates.

He readily became the most influential citizen of a half county, and was a dependable leader in its commercial, religious, fraternal, and service organizations. In town meeting, in community council, and in social conclave, his voice was heard and heeded as had been the voices of his father and grandfather. Page was an educational leader. He never published over his own name, but in twenty years few New Hampshire subject programs have been written except by committees of which he was an active member. He seldom held elective office, but he was a permanent member of all nominating committees and of all executive councils.

When Page graduated in the class of 1895, he was nearly twenty-nine, but he owed no debt and he had Phi Beta Kappa rank. When he married he was thirty-seven, but he was recognized in his profession, and he could establish a home without installment furniture.

Mrs. Page was Helen R. White of Paw- tucket, R. 1., an educated woman whose social and domestic grace made the Page home a memorable one. Mrs. Page died in January, 1929, and Mr. Page on February 10 of this year. The disease was pneumonia and the illness brief. The children are Frederick, a graduate of Dartmouth; Barbara, a graduate of Jackson; Lincoln, a junior at Dartmouth; Miriam and James in the Woodsville schools.

On the snow-white February day when neighbors, associates, children, stood by his grave, only a short morning walk from his ancestral home, we were not overmournful, for with the Haverhill hills we well knew that our friend's work was done, but the Page tradition will go on. E. W. BUTTERFIELD '97.

(To the foregoing tribute the following outline of Mr. Page's life record may be added.

Born in Benton, N. H., November 13, 1866, son of James and Olive Ann (Hunkins) Page. Fitted at Haverhill Academy. Principal of high school, Bethlehem, N. H., 1896-7. Studied at Boston University, 1897- 9, receiving degree of A.M. in 1899. Principal at Bethlehem, Salem Depot, and Henniker, N. H., 1899-1901, and at Pittsfield, N. H., 1901-5. Supervising principal at Woodsville, N. H., 1905-7, and at Lisbon, N. H., 1907-11. Superintendent of schools for Woodsville, Haverhill, and Bath from 1911 to his death, Monroe being added to his district in 1916 and Benton in 1919. Spent four summer vacations in Europe, and on one of these attended the summer session of the University of Grenoble.)

CLASS OF 1900

FRANKLIN CROCKER LEWIS passed away on February 13, 1930, after a long illness of nearly a year. He had given up active work at the School of Ethical Culture, and was endeavoring to regain his health, which had been shattered by long years of intense application. He waged a valiant battle with a disease which he did not know to be hopeless. This long period of suffering he bore with calm determination. Those who watched him during this struggle felt that he had indeed been released.

Franklin Lewis was born in Centerville, Cape Cod ,Mass.( on February 12, 1877. His father was Joseph F. Lewis, a sea captain. Franklin prepared for college at the Barnstable High School. He entered Dartmouth with little or no money, and only by incessant effort and great self-sacrifice was he able to complete his course. He roomed in Wentworth Hall during most of the four years.

F. C. Lewis's scholastic career was one of great distinction. He was a Rufus Choate scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He had honorable mention in Latin during his first year and was graduated cum laude.

In all subjects' he achieved distinction, while at the same time he was prominent in college life. He was a member of Palaeopitus during his senior year. He was universally liked. He was not popular in the usual sense of the word. Life was too serious a matter for him. His education meant everything to him, and he had little time for trivial amusements or for useless diversions. He was always cordial, kind, and interested in his fellow men. College life did not mean play to him, but serious preparation for a useful life. He was broad in his sympathies and very much interested in athletics, although he had little time to spend in his own athletic development.

After college he attended the graduate school at Harvard, receiving an A. M. degree. For a time he was instructor in pedagogy at Dartmouth, but soon became connected with the Ethical Culture schools of New York city, later becoming superintendent.

In 1903 he married Ellen Anderson, the marriage taking place in Denver, Colo. Two children survive, Beatrice, born in June, 1904, and Madeleine, born in July, 1905. Two boys blessed this home for only a short time.

For a time he lived in Leonia, N. J., where he had a place of considerable extent, interesting himself in gardening. During the last few years of his life he lived in the Bronx. The funeral was conducted by Dr. Felix Adler, the founder and head of the Ethical Culture schools. An outstanding tribute was paid to him for his long life of usefulness and devotion to the school. He was a great educator, a sympathetic counselor, and a fine executive. In the long list of Dartmouth men who have devoted themselves to education, Franklin Lewis will rank among the leaders.

There is something rather typically American about his whole career. He came of seafaring ancestry, and his boyhood days were spent in a quaint little town on Cape Cod. While no doubt the ports of the world were known to his father, his early horizon was confined to a small area, far removed from the bustle of modern life. Then he went to college, to a graduate school in a large city, and finally settled in New York, the largest and most cosmopolitan city in the entire country. And he made his mark in his new environment. He no doubt felt the strain and the stress of this life very keenly. Perhaps many a time he longed for the quiet old days on the Cape where he knew all the old families and had a wealth of friends who knew the Lewises and talked about what Joseph's boy was doing.

Another successful 1900 man has passed along, but we are proud of his accomplishment, which with that of others makes up the total contribution of the class of 1900 to the world.

N. W. EMERSON.

CLASS OF 1906

It was a great shock to the many college friends of GEORGE LOFF to learn of his death last spring, and the class secretary has received numerous inquiries regarding him, but only recently has he been able to learn sufficient details to write this still quite inadequate biographical sketch.

George was bora in Worcester, Mass., September 30, 1884, and prepared for Dartmouth at the Worcester South High School. In college he was exceedingly popular, making friends readily and permanently. He won his class numerals at baseball, playing on both his freshman and sophomore teams. He was a member of Theta Delta Chi, Turtle, and Casque and Gauntlet.

Soon after graduation he entered the engineering department of the Union Pacific Railroad in the tie and timber branch, with headquarters at Omaha, Neb. He soon rose to the position of assistant engineer, inspecting ties, piling, and bridge timber, and his duties took him over a wide territory from Texas to Oregon. Much of his time was spent in the southern states, and there he met his wife, Emma Prestridge, to whom he was married in Texarkana, Texas, July 12, 1915.

In 1914 he became associated with Mr. N. B. Updike of Omaha, Woods Brothers of Lincoln, Neb., and Mr. D. M. Wilt of Wichita, Kans., under the firm name of Standard Timber Company, Inc. His new undertaking as general manager of the company took him to Wyoming, with headquarters and home at Evanston, where he resided continuously until his death April 25, 1929. Since he had previously been in excellent physical condition, his death, from an acute heart attack following influenza, was sudden and unexpected. His body was taken for burial to Wichita, Kans., the home of Mrs. Loff's family.

He is survived by his wife, one son, George, and a sister, Mrs. Albert Norseen of Worcester, Mass. Mrs. Loff plans to remain in Evanston until George, Jr., completes his high school work. It is her intention then to place the boy in Dartmouth, and to move her home to some point in the East that she may be near him.

One of his close business associates in Evanston writes of him thus: "Loff was an outstanding character in the Intermountain region. During the comparatively short time he lived here he made many staunch friends. Highly successful in his business, he was recognized as one of the most progressive men in the West. He loved his adopted state, Wyoming, and took a keen interest in its development. He served the town of Evanston as a member of the Council during 1927-28. He was loved by all who knew him, and was one whom his college may proudly claim."

CLASS OF 1910

ROBERT VAN NESS JOHNSON died January 1, 1930, at Billings Memorial Hospital in Chicago, 111., of peritonitis, following an operation.

He was born December 6,1887, in Denver, Colo., and attended for a time Colorado State College. In our junior year he joined us, and remained that year and part of the next. Owing to the comparatively short time he was with us and to the fact that he then dropped out of sight, not much of his later life was known to his classmates. Last fall one of the Chicago contingent saw him at a football game, and learned that he was practising dentistry in Chicago.

Medical School

CLASS OF 1882

DR. EDWARD FRANKLIN HOUGHTON died June 11, 1929, at his home in Tilton, N. H., after a long illness, having been confined to his bed for 19 months.

He was born in Walpole, N. H., January 21, 1849, the son of Lyman and Phoebe (Hooper) Houghton. He graduated from the high school of his native town in 1865, and was engaged in business for some time before taking up the study of medicine.

After graduation he practised successively in Claremont (1882-95) and Rochester, N. H. (1895-7), before removing to Tilton in 1897. He held a high rank among the physicians of that region. His zealous and arduous labors during the "flu" epidemic in 1918 left him in an impaired physical condition from which he never fully recovered.

At Claremont he was for twelve years a member of the board of health, ten years a member of the board of education, and five years treasurer of the town school district. He was actively connected with the Methodist church of Tilton, and was a member of the Masonic lodge at Tilton and past eminent commander of the commandery of Knights Templar at Claremont. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the New Hampshire Medical Society, and the Belknap County Medical Society.

March 5, 1870, he was married to Clara N. Larrabee of Northfield, Vt., who died in 1878. A second marriage, November 11, 1880, was to Carol C. Larrabee of Claremont, N. H., who died in 1909, and a third, January 11, 1910, to Merilla E. Patrick of Tilton, who survives him. A daughter of the first marriage also survives him, Suzette J. (Mrs. Richard E. Allen) of Groveland, Mass. A son died in early manhood.

CLASS OF 1889

DR. ALBERT JAMES MEARA died of endocarditis at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 29, 1930.

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 12, 1853.

His medical education was obtained at the College of Physicians of New York, the Long Island College Hospital, and at Dartmouth. Shortly after graduation he began practice in the city of Brooklyn, and continued there through a long and successful career. He was a member of the American Medical

Association and of the Kings County Medical Society, an active member of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and for many years a member of Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal church.

In 1909 Dr. Meara was married to Edith Munroe, who survives him, with one daughter, Miss Edith Meara.

Honorary

In the last number of the MAGAZINE was recorded the death of one of the distinguished educators upon whom honorary degrees were conferred at the time of the inauguration of President Nichols in 1909. The passing of another is now to be recorded. Ex-President ARTHUR TWINING HADLSY died of pneumonia March 6, 1930, in the harbor of Kobe, Japan, on board the steamship Empress of Australia, on which he was taking a journey around the world.

Following is a brief outline of his career. The son of Prof. James H. and Anne (Twining) Hadley, he was born in New Haven, Conn., April 23, 1856. After one of graduate work at Yale and two at the University of Berlin, he held in succession the following positions in his Alma Mater: tutor, 1879-83; lecturer on railroad administration, 1883-6; professor of political science, 1886-91; professor of political economy, 1891-9; president, 1899-1921. He was married June 30, 1891, to Helen Harrison, daughter of Governor Luzon B. Morris of New Haven, who survives him. They have had three children.