Class of 1876

G. R. Clark writes from Davenport, lowa, date of March 6, as follows:

"Your card just received. Yes, I still havecharge of the club rooms at the MasonicTemple. I guess that is a life job. We expect to again make the long drive to Vermont the coming summer and may againmake you a short visit at Dublin. We havegot through the winter fairly well, andhope to keep well enough to drive backthere this summer. I trust this will find youin good health and that we may meetagain."

Mrs. James F. McElroy sends a colorful account of her winter with her daughter, Mrs. William H. Gardiner, Seattle, Wash. The Seattle winter has been the coldest in a number of years, but not so cold as the Albany winters.

L. Curran Clark, it appears, originally planned to enter Yale, but a visit to Hanover caused a change in his plans. A recent letter is but slightly informing as to present interests, and is mainly reminiscent of the Sanborn House in Hanover which James T. Fields, an occasional visitor there, was accustomed to call the House by the Elms.

The following clipping is from the New York Herald Tribune, March 1, 1937:

"The other day I dropped in to see old Dr. Richard T. Ely. Everybody ought to know Dr. Ely. He's the man who wrote Ely's 'Economics,' which everybody that used to go to college had to read well enough to pass an examination.

"Ely's 'Economics' first appeared in 1889. Its author was then professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins University. Its newest edition is about to appear, and will be 1,200 pages full of data, experience, and wisdom, and will be up to date. I suppose more copies of Ely's 'Economics' have been sold to the boys and girls in the colleges than of any other textbooks. And it was always sound doctrine.

"Old Dr. Ely will be eighty-three in April. He has an office in New York from which he manages some interesting enterprises. He commutes every working day, and is engaged in his spare time in raising a new family—his two youngest children being four and two.

"Richard T. Ely is a cousin of Robert E. Ely, who runs the Town Hall in New York. Compared with Richard T., Robert E. suffers from youth and immaturity. He is a meager seventy-six. And that probably explains why he tires out most of the lecturers on the Town Hall platform."

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