CLASS OP 1906
Walter Powers is first vice-president of the Boston City Club for the current year.
Shorty Davis and Harry Heneage '07 are touring England for a few weeks, investigating the status of rowing in the English universities, and incidentally playing golf on some of the famous British courses.
Dr. Arthur Holmes attended the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society at Atlanta, Ga., from April 7 to 11. In collaboration with two other distinguished chemical research scholars, he presented a paper before the Division of Biological Chemistry, and two papers before the Division of Medicinal Chemistry. He is secretary of the latter division. Two weeks later he attended the nineteenth annual meeting of the American Drug Manufacturers Association at Pinehurst, N. C., and read a paper to the Scientific Section of that society. All of these papers dealt with recent researches he has made regarding the properties of cod liver oil. Another of his monographs has recently come to the notice of your class Secretary: "Does Cod Liver Oil of High Acid Content Have Toxic Properties?" in which he collaborated with three other chemists of the E. L. Patch Co. Research Laboratories, and which is reprinted from Poultry Science, Vol. IX, No. 3.
Rev. Howard Chidley has been engaged for many years in aiding the cause of education for Negroes in North Carolina, and for seventeen years has served as chairman of the board of trustees of the National Training School. Recently, largely through Chid's efforts, the trustees have been successful in getting the state of North Carolina to take over the school and make it a state university for Negroes. .
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
