Class of 1894

The secretary's consent has not been obtained or sought but we venture to print the following from the Missionary Herald for April, apparently from the pen of John R. Scotford '11, associate editor of the Herald:

"Charles C. Merrill will be missed in NewYork. In a city of energetic people few mencould excel him in the art of dodgingthrough traffic or catching a train by theminimum number of seconds. On an islandwhere the dollar is all-powerful few mengave less thought as to how much coin ofthe realm they had in their pockets. It iseven alleged that upon occasion he haspersuaded railroad conductors to acceptchecks for passage. But the greatest commentary on the good-heartedness of CharlesC. Merrill is the number of humble folkwho will miss him—the shoe-shine manwith seven children, the curious characterswho gather up old newspapers in the subway, the classmate in the Home for Incurables, the immigrant from a missionland to America who has been overwhelmedby many problems in his new home. Thereare so many people in New York that onlythe unusual ones are missed. As Charles C.Merrill moves to Boston we have just onefear—that his new task will not afford himsufficient excitement or permit him to roamas freely about our country as has been hiswont. A man such as he ought not to stayput—even at 14 Beacon St.!"

Secretary, 14 Beacon St., Boston