CLASS OF 1887

The Secretary is in Florida, with address as above.

Prof, and Mrs. Frank B. Sanborn are due in Ormond Beach, Fla., in late February.

Prof. George E. Johnson is taking a sabbatical half-year. He and Mrs. Johnson are on a trip to Pacific Coast states.

The commission appointed by the legislature of West Virginia in 1929 to study the state constitution and submit amendments thereto has submitted its report. Edward W. Knight served on the commission as vicechairman.

Paul C. Sanborn, son of the veteran athlete of the class, has completed his sixth year as a partner in Clark and Sanborn, general agents for the State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Mass., with office at 50 Congress St., Boston. They have had a very successful year.

The young swindler who has capitalized some knowledgeof Dartmouth men of our time to obtain easy money called on Sidney Arthur late in November last at Covington, Ky. Arthur writes as follows: "One morning a dapper young fellow with a very marked Vermont accent called on me and announced that he was the son of our classmate Blossom, and was on his way home from Tulane University, where he was studying medicine. He said he had had an automobile accident (reckless driving) in Berea, Ky., while driving on his way through that town, and that it had cost him all the money he had except a little; that he had wired to his father for money, which the latter would wire to my care the next day. In the meantime he needed $25 to put with what he had left to get home on, on which journey he must leave at once. The young fellow said his mother was in Europe. He gave me an order on the telegraph company for $25, which I gave him, to be deducted from the $lOO which he said his father would send him, and I was to wire the balance to him at some club in New York. Well, I gave the young rascal a check for $25, endorsed it, and called up the bank to let him have the money. While he was talking to Mrs. Arthur I tried to find my latest alumni book to see if he was really what he said he was, a member of the class of 1927, but the book had been misplaced. In the meantime the boy told me in extreme detail about most of our classmates in and around Boston, facts concerning Quint and others. As a consequence of all this I was convinced that I was doing gladly for a member of '87, but when after his departure I found the alumni book, his name was not in it. I immediately knew that I bad been scooped, hornswaggled, buncoed, and I wrote Blossom at Brookline, Mass., telling him of the above facts. In a few days I received a letter from Blossom telling me that he had no son and that his wife died a good while ago."

Secretary, Nokomis, Fla.