Class of 1885

Our class president, John Brooks, and his wife are enjoying their annual sojourn in the South, making their headquarters this year at "The Carolina" at Summerville, S. C. Two of Mrs. Brooks' sisters are there also, making quite a family party. Unfortunately for the convenience and comfort of John and his wife, who made the trip by automobile, they started just in time to be caught in the severe blizzard of January, which held them up in Washington and Richmond—the roads were in such condition that they had to use chains almost all the way to North Carolina. The hardships of their trip, however, are probably forgotten in the pleasure they take in their opportunities for golfing, which they both very much enjoy.

"Life" Philbrick we know as a man of many ideas, and in his new home in Los Angeles he should find a surfeit of certainkinds, living in the home city of the muchtalked-of Dr. Townsend and his $200 per month pension scheme and .in a state which nominated for governor the erratic Upton Sinclair on his E. P. I. C. slogan of "Eradicating Poverty in California." After a dose of such nostrums, Phil ought to be about ready to take his family and return home to Boston.

Olin Sturgis, for many years a resident of Sacramento, Calif., and a life-long Democrat, although born in rock-ribbed Vermont, has written the Secretary, confessing that the California political vagaries were too unsettling for him and he should oppose Sinclair even to the extent of voting for the Republican candidate. The result of the election showed that Olin's good judgment placed him with a great majority of the California voters.

A marvelous thrill comes to us, of the collegiate vintage of 50 years ago, when we read that more than 1200 young ladies from 20 different colleges descended on Hanover early in February for a two days' attendance at the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, one of whom reigned over the festivities as "Queen of the Carnival" and another as the "Duchess." When we contrast this present with that past may we be excused if we exclaim "O tempora, O mores" and then "mutatis mutandis."

Secretary, Kimball Bldg., 18 Tremont St., Boston