Class of 1878

It is becoming increasingly evident that the Secretary's census of class children and grandchildren will never be quite complete, but the inquiry is still being hopefully pursued in a few difficult cases. It is plain, however, that further returns cannot rise the verge for the eighty-six graduates or for the hundred and seventeen total membership of the class enough to credit them with even approximately filling their own places in the world.

It would seem a question whether the criticism leveled at college women for failure in this particular may not apply equally to college men.

The inquiry has brought interesting letters from sons of two classmates long deceased but by no means forgotten. Hotaling's son, Stuart N., is secretary of the Community Club of Arlington, Mass. Templeton's son, Frederick H., is a patent lawyer of Washington, D. C. The latter encloses a check for class expenses in appreciation of the pleasure his mother derived from our fifty-year "Narrative."

The catalog of the library donated by Lewis Parkhurst to the Prison Colony at Norfolk, Mass., contains nearly eight hundred titles, selected by the head of the Massachusetts Library Commission.

Inspecting the class tree in front of Thornton, Parkhurst missed the stone marker, and as is his wont, ordered a. new one. But in placing the new the old one was found, and by slight regrading was brought into view as of old.

Questioned about oranges picked early and artificially colored for the eastern market, Hayt, fruit authority, says: "Mypersonal opinion is that oranges get hardand their juice dries up in a few months'storage. To keep from being stung, buyorange juice, grapefruit juice, pineapplejuice; it is the real goods. We pick our feworanges in late November, eat them or givethem away by February i, then like trueCalifornians, take to the cans."

Hayt also sends a photograph, taken last August, of a pair of so-called century plants (which name he discredits), growing on his ranch and about fifty years old, one in bloom, having shot up within about two months a stalk twenty feet high and six inches in diameter at the base, branching at the top like a hat tree, while its companion of the same age shows no sign of similar behavior. Their value would seem to be as curiosities rather than as ornaments.

Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.