CLASS OF 1890

In the item in last month's magazine as to Dan Richardson of the class of 1891 being engaged to help out in the Dartmouth National Bank during the illness of our class- mate, Perley R. Bugbee, the bank's president, perhaps a wrong impression was given. Richardson writes that he hasn't lived in Concord for thirty-five years. He was living in Montclair, N. J., before he came to Hanover. He came to Hanover on retiring from the Western Electric Co., and took the position in the bank as a temporary occupation. He has now left the bank. He and Mrs. Richardson have been living in the old Moody house, which formerly stood on the north side of the campus and is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fairbanks. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson expect to continue to reside in Hanover for a time, at least.

Dr. William Gerry Morgan, recently president of the American Medical Association, was a witness before a United States Senate committee, in a hearing on the present liquor laws, in January. He declared that four per cent or even two per cent beer would turn people away from the "questionable" bootleg liquor of the hard variety. He said that while 60 per cent of the medical profession did not regard higher alcoholic beverages as a necessary medicant, he believed that a more potent beer would be helpful as a food tonic to the sick. If taken in moderate quantities, he declared, four per cent beer would not prove deleterious. Dr. Morgan is one of the great stomach specialists of the country.

Dr. Morgan was one of the speakers oyer the radio, under the auspices of the American Taxpayers' League, January 13, his subject being "Who Should Control the Expendi- tures of Tax Moneys."

Rev. George Sherman Mills, D.D., filled an ad interim pastorate of a few weeks at the South Congregational church in New Britain, Conn., which concluded the middle of January. This church is the third largest in the denomination, having a membership of 2,300. New Britain was an especially interesting city to George, inasmuch as his grandfather Sherman was pastor there for some years, after returning from Syria, where he was an American Board missionary. George is now holding a similar ad interim pastorate at the Plymouth church in Worcester, Mass., where he will remain until the first of April. He and Mrs. Mills will then visit in Belfast, Me., George's first pastorate, and in other places in New England.

In accordance with the recent custom of making it short and snappy, the drive for the Alumni Fund will begin about April first. There is going to be a greater need than ever this year of a large response, for obvious reasons. Our class has never in the past approached its quota. Let's make a special effort this year and raise the full amount. Every member should contribute something, even if only a little. The class agent, Charlie Hardy, will certainly have his heart gladdened, if the response is not only generous but speedy and voluntary. Don't make him write several times for it. Your Secretary knows all about it, for he once held Hardy's job himself.

Secretary, 45 Wakefield St., Rochester, N. H.