Class of 1894
Editor, HENRY N. HURD, Claremont, N. H.
Archie Matthews has not lost his interest in education since his retirement in 1928. He has given his residence in Potsdam, N. Y., to the Clarkson College of Technology. The Clarkson Integrator, published by the students, in the issue of April 26, 1933, says in part:
"One of the most munificent gifts received. by the college in the past severalyears has just been announced by Dr. JohnP. Brooks. This last contribution to thephysical properties of the school is thepalatial residence of Archibald J. Matthews, located on outer Pierrepont Ave.,and given to Clarkson as a home for thepresident of the college. The residence andgrounds are valued at over $50,000. Thenew president's home, perhaps the finestdwelling in the village at the present time,is located on a sightly prominence of landlying to the west of Pierrepont Ave. andabout three blocks from the college. It wasbuilt in 1926, with Mr. Matthews movingin early in the spring of 1927. Since thattime the owner has been landscaping anddeveloping the grounds so that it now isone of the beauty spots of the entire village."
Eddie Grover was up North during May on a speaking trip for Rollins College. His contacts included a considerable number of schools, and also he had a broadcast one evening. Reports from the broadcast indic ate that he made a very telling presentation of the unique work which his college is doing. He dropped in on Secretary Merrill and reported himself as standing up under a strenuous program, provided he took good care of himself. An editorial in the New York Evening Post of May 8 referred to his article in the recent Review ofReviews (incidentally he was spoken of as "Osgood Grover"), in which he was setting forth a new financial policy at Rollins College whereby all of the expenses of the college were to be paid out of tuition fees, and the funds contributed for endowment were to be used for scholarships. This policy, which the Evening Post was inclined to commend, would abolish the present system by which the sons of the well-to-do are given free a considerable part of their eduaction and would use the endowment funds for the purposes to which many of them, at least, were originally contributed. The upshot is that our classmate Eddie is right on the job and in the van of progressive ideas.
Secretary, 287 Fourth Ave., New York
