Class of 1878

Eight members of the class, Burleigh, Field, Gray, Kenaston, Maxson, Parkhurst, Parkinson, Stimson, have observed with more or less celebration their golden wedding anniversaries. Tarbell's is due in May of this year, Sawyer's in December, 1936, and Lane's in August, 1937.

In his preface to "Quaker Militant" the author says he profited by the kindness of Mr. Sawyer, president of the Lowell Hisstorical Society, in allowing him to copy from the only existing file of the MiddlesexStandard.

Vittum writes that he expects to be in Sandwich, N. H., his old home, this summer.

Parkinson was engaged last July by the Lowell (Mass.) Finance Commission to make a study of the Lowell High School to see whether and how expense might be reduced without loss of educational efficiency. After making a preliminary report in August, approaching a final one in September, and three months' intermission due to illness, he mustered force enough in early January to lick his material into presentable form and file a report.

Dana College is a new and ambitious institution in Newark, N. J., named for John Cotton Dana. A copy of the first number of the Dana College Chronicle has come to hand, and is creditably made up. Here's hoping the institution will prove worthy of its honored name!

Prof. (Emeritus) Frederick D. Lane, now in his 85th year, pursues the even tenor of his useful way. He has been for many years town treasurer of Ashburnham, Mass., and library trustee, attending, as he always has, punctiliously to his duties.

Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass