CLASS OF 1894
Nunc Norris is spending the summer at his cottage in Camden, Me. By September he plans to be fully recovered from the illness which kept him from his office in the spring. This illness, by the way, was a blessing in disguise to the class of '94, since it loosened Nunc's persuasive powers to such a degree that the class, in the final year of his "agency," attained an unprecedented record in the Alumni Fund.
Classmates who visit Nunc at Camden will inquire if Matt Jones has come to his usual summer resort on an island not far away. They will want to congratulate Matt on the recent increase in his family. On Saturday, the twenty-eighth of June, he took to himself a daughter-in-law, through the marriage of Florence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Dull, of La Grange, Ill., to Walter Leland Jones.
Ninety-four men who are afield this summer should not make the mistake of supposing that they can still run over and see the associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court while the engine is taking water at the Keene, N. H., station. Judge Allen is still in the "Sentinel" building, but that building is now on a side street, and has taken on the odor of sanctity by snuggling up to an Episcopal church. Doubtless the real reason for the change is the Judge's desire to have a spick-and-span place in which to prepare the history which occupies all his spare moments now. If you haven't answered Jack's recent letter, your conscience will tell what this history is.
Don't pass up Lebanon, N. H., in your travels. George Brown will be glad to see you. Captain Grow would like to show you over his new or enlarged mansion. And not far away, of course, is "Stonecrest," where Arthur Stone is producing certified milk for the faculty and students of Dartmouth College.
Those who were disturbed some weeks ago by the report of Frank Hodgdon's serious illness will be glad to know that the latest word is distinctly favorable, though he will need a prolonged rest before he gets back to work. At last accounts he was still at Pilgrim Place, Claremont, Calif.
Ajax Rollins and his wife were among the happy party of five hundred Congregationalists who left New York, June 24, on the "Good-Will Pilgrimage" for England.
The Manchester Union of June 30 had a frontispiece picture of John Henry Bartlett and Mrs. Bartlett, apropos of their sailing for Europe on the steamship Bremen.
Dr. Frederick A. Bushee, professor of economies and sociology in the University of Colorado, has written a book entitled "The Social Organization," which is published by Henry Holt and Company. We quote from the announcement:
"Two important features distinguish this book from other available texts in elementary sociology: 1. It studies contemporary social life rather than social origins or social progress; 2. It is simple enough in both form and content to be adapted to the needs of beginning students. Most texts now being used in the introductory course are too advanced and abstract for beginners; as a consequence many students become discouraged and lose interest in any further pursuit of sociology. 'The Social Organization' was written to obviate this pedagogic obstacle. Its approach is at once natural and concrete, being the study of the society in which we live. It presents to the student, in a simple and attractive manner, an analysis and an evaluation of the organizations and institutions in his community."
Those who know Bushee feel that both as an investigator and a teacher he is fully qualified to write a book of just this kind.
William C. Dutton is secretary of the Kingston Council of United Commercial Travelers, with headquarters at 52 Linderman Ave., Kingston, N. Y.
Editor, Claremont, N. H.
