Class of 1876

The following appears in a recent letter from Barton.

"Last summer we (daughter and I) spenttwo months at an outpost of Heaven (BayView, Mich.), and returning home, havegone to all the football games and had agood time, and now are thankful forChristmas and all it means to the world.

"Pretty good place I think, in spite of thesoap-box orators who tell us that we aregoing 'to the demnition bow-wows' unlesswe adopt their remedy, for the ills wehave.

"This has been my year. My salutationto all the boys. A mighty good bunch, myfriends, a mighty good bunch. It is one ofthe joys of my life to have fallen in withthem. Let us all keep on smiling. Ask FrankHill if this is not the proper thing to do."

Ely has a contribution in the December number of the Town Crier on "Our Foreign Debts."

The Crier announces that "beginningnext month, Prof. Richard T. Ely will conduct a regular department devoted to adiscussion of our critical economic and social problems. As evidence of his progressive attitude toward changing world conditions he will call his department 'TheNew Economics.'" *

Secretary, 411 High St., West Medford, Mass.