CLASS OF 1906
The annual meeting of the Secretaries Association has come and gone. Your Secretary was in attendance at all of the sessions, and had the pleasure of making a little speech of welcome to the association on the occasion of its first meeting in Sanborn House.
Much interest at this meeting centered about the report to date of the Alumni Fund, and thereat your Secretary felt like hiding his head in shame, for the class of 1906 stands almost at the bottom of the list. Every man in the class must share in that feeling of shame, and I trust that when you read this paragraph you will at once send Nat Leverone that contribution that he has been hounding you for. Nat is doing his part, but being a successful class agent is, like marriage, a two-party job. Of course, times are hard, but there are very few of us who can't spare something—a dollar, at least.
Arthur Holmes is still chasing after vitamins, but he seems to be finding out their hiding places in more substances than the liver of the cod. Witness this interesting item from the Boston Evening Transcript of April 9:
"It is now possible for Greater Boston babies suffering from rickets to obtain a cure in the milk that nourishes them, according to an announcement by H. P. Hood & Sons, who have just filed with the Medical Milk Commission of Boston the findings of a report made by Dr. Arthur D. Holmes, wellknown and recognized research authority, to the effect that certain selected Hood cows are producing milk rich in vitamin D, which is the anti-rachitic vitamin.
"The good old bossy cow, who has served man so faithfully for uncounted generations, has been converted into a medical laboratory by feeding her irradiated yeast as a part of her daily diet. This yeast has been bathed in ultra-violet rays, and when fed to the cow in proper proportions, it increases the vitamin D content of this milk about thirty times more than that found in ordinary milk. This milk is a cure for rickets. It prevents the disease in children who are not thus afflicted, and assists materially in building sound teeth and strong bones. The flavor of this milk is exactly the same as that of standard certified milk.
"Dr. Holmes's experiments were conducted along the lines of those made by Dr. Harry Steenbock, professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin and discoverer of the irradiated-food principle. In Dr. Holmes's tests of Hood's special vitamin milk, he found that it contained not less than 160 units of vitamin D per quart.
"The irradiated yeast feeding experiments were started several months ago with three groups of ten cows each at the Cherry Hill Certified Milk Farm. The milk from these cows was studied in tests on albino rats at Dr. Holmes's laboratory. These animals were maintained on a special food known as the Steenbock Rachitic Ration, which is a ration totally lacking in vitamin D and produces rickets in creatures to which it is fed. The animals thus fed showed enlarged joints, and the bones in the legs became so soft they could barely walk, indicating the presence of rickets to a marked degree. Then for a period of eight days they were fed on the special vitamin milk, and when these animals were finally killed, an examination of the leg-bones showed healing rickets, which indicated that the milk contains the desired quantity of this vitamin."
The sympathy of the class goes out to Con Chellis in the loss of his mother, who passed away at her home in Meriden, N. H., on April 22. Many a 1906 man remembers her with affection, for in our undergraduate days she offered unbounded hospitality at her spacious Meriden farmstead to all of her son's friends.
Our condolences are also extended to Harold Fish, whose mother died in Canton, Mass., on April 19. Harold came on from Chicago to attend her funeral at their old home in South Royalton, Vt.
Nathan C. Redlon of the class of 1906 died suddenly at his home in Portland, Maine, May 22.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H.
