Class of 1889

Mr. and Mrs. John Barrett, after driving from their winter home in Florida to Vermont in the late spring, went to Europe for the summer. Among the countries visited are England, Russia, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. An interesting letter from John, dated at London, Sept. 17, gave some of his conclusions about the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. In Italy he interviewed representatives of all classes, government officials, professional and business men, journalists, the average man on the street, and the so-called peasantry. He found them all earnestly and frankly believers in the program and policies of Mussolini. In Geneva he talked with many representative men, and especially with newspaper writers who had come from Europe, the two Americas, and Asia to attend the sessions of the Council and Assembly. He found that "there was,except among the Italians, a tremendouspreponderance of anti-Italian and antiMussolini sentiment in the issues at stake,but an equal preponderance of viewpointthat it would probably be impossible toStop Italy and Mussolini from carrying outtheir Ethiopian program." .... The real item of news about Ralph Bartlett is that he did not go to Russia last summer. He remained in Boston except for long weekends spent at his old home in Maine On one of the last days in September Flagg decided to make his long-planned trip to the Ravine Camp. With Mr. Wheeler he drove to Warren and walked the necessary mile and a half from the new road, arriving at full dusk to find "only the embers ofthe Camp—burned three nights before—andno one but a most friendly little cat aboutthe ruins." Chester had neglected to read his daily papers! With the aid of a flashlight they retraced their steps over the mile and a half of "rough path through the slash"— time two hours—and slept the night in Warren and rejoiced at this demonstration of their physical fitness, an unexpected byproduct of their excursion Sully has written that he and Mrs. Sullivan spent two weeks of October at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., chiefly for health reasons and partly for vacation. Results were encouraging from both angles. Their son spent his summer vacation in Alaska with a group of scientists from the National History Museum of New York in search of fossil remains from early geologic ages, with a short hunting trip to give variety. He is now back in the Groton School

Ralph Bartlett and the Secretary represented '89 at the annual after-the-game dinner of the "eighties group," at the Boston City Club, October 26. Harry Frost had gone to Chicago to see his new granddaughter. Noyes and Wellman saw the game but could not stay over for the dinner.

Secretary, 87 Milk St., Boston