Class of 1893

The Secretary had a grand good call the other day from Doctor George E. Pender, who is still practicing the profession of medicine in his native city of Portsmouth with offices across the street from the internationally known Rockingham, the hotel with the lions. The Doctor did much better than the Secretary in recalling the follies of those days and nights in Reed Hall, when the Doctor roomed on the top floor, where also were located Silver Flint, Jim Van Horn, Quin Eaton, and probably others. Down below Doc Lougee put up with the idiosyncracies of the Secretary, and other pairs were Cox and Woodbury, Chandler and Greeley, and Gordon with Charles Gould '92.

A great bunch of '92 brains and brawn in one apartment included Gunnison, Lakeman, Salinger, and Stoughton, and Mel Shurtleff and Buck Lord were next door. There were a number of sophomores and a few freshmen in Reed, who afterwards became famous. The Doctor and I remembered Henry Morrison, "P. I." Folsom and "Phin" Wheeler.

We agreed that the chief impression made upon us by our rather infrequent visits to Hanover was that the College and its personnel, teachers and pupils, its plant and its surroundings had become very "smooth," using the word in its best sense.

We also agreed that the result of the recent fire in the business section would work to the same end, but we mourned the loss of the places where we used to borrow money of Jack Frost and Boston & Maine mileages of Henry Sanborn and persuade Lil Carter to put numerous orders of his famous fried oysters on the slate.

Secretary, 104 North State St., Concord, N. H.