Class of 1893
The unanimous approval which has greeted the choice of the new footba coach recalls to members of our class a youth who came to Hanover from Ohio in the fall of 1889 and sounded so loudly the praises "of his native city, with reference to its Soldiers' Home, that Jl,ll Van Horn, who gave most of the class their nicknames, promptly labelled him "Dayton" Miller; and it stuck. So we of '93, for "Dayton's" sake, will cheer for Blaik.
Charles Gordon writes of his six weeks' trip to visit his daughter, Betty, in Lima, Peru, where his birthday was celebrated, much farther from home than such anniversaries usually find the settled and sober sons of '93. Charles says the sea trip did him a lot of good, and in this he is corroborated by the testimony as a medical expert of Dr. Frank T. Woodbury, who formed, with Charles, the entire '93 delegation at the annual Boston alumni dinner. The Doctor says: "Charley must have regained his health and some extra, as helooks fine, even better than usual."
The '93 delegation sensed the passing years when they found their seats not far from the head table and heard Dean Laycock say, "I know every man here except afew antediluvians down here in front"; And "POINTED AT US," reports Woodbury.
"MR. A. O." (Caswell) sends us Milford, Massachusetts, Mobilia, being his "annual agony" in which he meditates in Biblical manner upon this automobile age.
Harry Metcalf is a fellow member with President Hopkins of a special commission appointed by Governor Winant to study the problem of new liquor laws in New Hampshire. Aborn has been elected president of the Rhode Island Association of Arborists.
The Syracuse Daily Orange, news publication of Syracuse University undergraduates, contained in its issue of January 27 the following item:
"A rare volume containing all of thepoetry of Catullus and the medieval Latinpoem, 'The Vigil of Venus,' pronounced byclassical scholars as one of the most beautiful of its kind ever written, has been received by Prof. Perley O. Place, head of theclassical language department, as a giftfrom a friend, Guy Wilbur Cox of Boston.
"Mr. Cox, a former classmate of Dr. Placeat Dartmouth, and now vice-president andcounsel of the John Hancock Mutual LifeInsurance Company, is deeply interested inclassical studies. The copy of Catulluswhich he has sent to Dr. Place is No. 840 ofa limited issue of 1,000, intended for scholars and libraries throughout the world.
" 'It is a definitive edition, based on thework of Dr. S. G. Owen of Oxford, whostands in the front rank of Catullus scholars; Prof. Place remarked. 'lt is printed? inarge and generously spaced type, and carties as a special feature the illustrations ofC. Weguelin.' The volume will ultimately be placed in the library of the classical seminar room., Dr. Place said."
Just as we were about to start on a sensational story gleaned from the official records of Judge Chandler's court, we find at for the first time in history we have arrived 31 the end of our space allotment Wlt some news still to tell, so that we make our initial appearance as a serializer by writing here
(To be continued)
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