CLASS OF 1893
A special edition of the Milford, Mass., News contains an interesting article by Superintendent of Schools A. 0. Caswell on the educational system of the city, showing its development in the 19 years he has held his office.
President Guy W. Cox was among those mentioned in connection with the appointment of a new police commissioner of the city of Boston, made necessary by one Oliver B. Garrett.
Johnny Baker, Rufus's big boy, won a lot of points for Concord high school in the weight events this spring.
A. L. Calef went to Toronto with the Shriners.
S. P. Hunt did justice to the annual shore dinner of M. I. T. men in New Hampshire. Because of the interest which his paper, the Newport Argus-Ckampion, takes in the Lake Sunapee region, Harry B. Metcalf has been elected a director of the Sunapee board of trade.
Mrs. Arthur J. Lougee managed a food sale for the Congregational church at Fryeburg the other day, and according to the local paper the entire stock in trade was sold out in just ten minutes. Big business take notice!
The 19S0 annual of the University of New Hampshire, corresponding to our Aegis, has fine portraits of Harry S. McLaren and Marion Wright.
When the news of the big fire in Nashua came last spring, we naturally looked for the name of George W. Boutelle and promptly found it; not among the casualties, we are glad to say, but among the first contributors to the relief fund.
Another fire in Nashua, prior to the big one, burned the Merchants' Exchange, owned in part by the estate of our classmate, F. D. Runnells. It has been rebuilt in modern and improved form under the direction of Fred's widow and his nephew, Donald Bryant '10. Dartmouth was well represented in the convention to propose amendments to the constitution of the state of New Hampshire, which was in session at the state capitol from June 4 to June 13, inclusive. Frank N. Parsons '74, former chief justice of the Supreme Court, was elected unanimously as the president of the convention, and at its close was given a vote of thanks.
Perley R. Bugbee '90, of Hanover, was made chairman of the committee on rules; Conrad E. Snow '12, of Rochester, of the committee on judicial department; Harold K. Davison '15, of Woodsville, of the committee on method of amending the constitution; and Herbert W. Rainie '06, of the committee on time and mode of submitting the amendments to the people. Prof. James P. Richardson '99, of Hanover, was welcomed back to New Hampshire public life after his period of physical disability, and was prominent in the deliberations of the convention.
Two of the five amendments adopted for submission to the people were introduced by Delegate John W. Pearson '11, of Concord. Other Dartmouth men in the convention were: Edwin B. Weston '93, Derry; Dr. Walter R. Sanders, D.M.C. '82, Derry; Dr. Newell W. Bean, D.M.C. '83, East Kingston; Dr. George H. Towle '97, Newmarket; Dwight Hall '94, Dover; Charles H. Pettee '74, Durham; Dr. George W. Nutter, D.M.C. '84, Rollinsford; Theo S. Jewett '13, Laconia; Arthur P. Gale '04, Jackson; Clarence E. Carr '75, Andover; Willoughby A. Colby '18, Bow; James M. Langley '18, Concord; Harry K. Rogers '08, Pembroke; Dr. Frank H. Sargent, D.M.C. '90, Pittsfield; Dr. Henry O. Smith '86, Hudson; Winthrop Wadleigh '23, Milford; George M. French '11, Nashua; Arthur P. Smith '97, Peterborough; William H. Watson '03, Keene; Ira G. Colby '94, Claremont; Jesse M. Barton '92, Newport; Bowdoin Plummer '12, Bristol; James B. Wallace '87, Canaan; Dr. Charles B. Drake, D.M.C. '83, Lebanon; Kenneth W. Foley '24, Littleton; David S. Austin 2d '04, Waterville; Alfred R. Evans '72, Gorham.
Secretary, 104 North State St., Concord, N. H.
