CLASS OF 1882
The class is deeply concerned about Little's long sickness. When the Secretary hears from any member there is always the question, "How is Luther getting on?" or "Do you hear anything of Luther?" In answer to inquiry Lines writes: "I called on Luther yesterday (January 4), and am awfully sorry to say that he is failing; not rapidly, but there is a distinct loss of strength since I saw him three weeks previously." This is a disappointing report. Luther has made so courageous and cheery an uphill fight, we all hoped he would get back to at least a moderately active life.
Lines was also good enough to furnish, as requested, some notes on the trip which he and Mrs. Lines made to Europe a year ago. As the class knows, Lines was for long years the medical director in Europe for the New York Life Insurance Company, with headquarters at Paris. Returning to this country a few years ago, he has become the chief medical director of the company at the home office in New York.
He writes: "I do not know that I can say anything of general interest about my trip to Europe a year ago. It was primarily and principally on account of health. I had naturally some matters to attend to in Paris, and then Mrs. Lines and I went on to Egypt, under advice, for a rest and cure if possible. We spent some time leisurely on the Nile and then settled down at Aswan. I got hold of a felucca and sailed about in the neighborhood on the river. I also did some donkey riding in the desert and incidentally studied all sorts of ancient inscriptions concerning the old-time practice of medicine, as related on the walls of those old temples. We were both quite interested in the art inscriptions, and were much surprised to find them so interesting and in many ways, it seemed to me, more lifelike and superior in drawing to much that we had previously seen in European art of four or five hundred years ago; although there is an interesting connection between that old work in Egypt and the schools following during many hundreds of years.
"The political and economic problems in those countries, and especially in Egypt, proved what we had already supposed to be true; that is, there is much to be done in the way of organization and education.
"There is a wonderfully fine American school at Assiut, which has been in operation some sixty years and has turned out a great many graduates of all classes of the native inhabitants, who are proving most helpful in the governmental and other offices throughout the country. On the whole our trip was instructive and health improving."
The Secretary is planning to spend the most of February and March in Florida, visiting at Winter Park. Among other enjoyments it will be a pleasure to see Rollins College, the institution into which George Ward poured so much of his life and ability in the two periods of service in which he was its president.
Secretary, 89 Lowell Ave., Newton ville, Mass.
