Class of 1890

I presume Henry Pringle has led about as active a life as any '9O man. In 1887 he traveled in Europe. In the same year he accompanied Prof. Hitchcock of Dartmouth and Prof. Jenks of Brown in exploring the Everglades of Florida and collecting natural history specimens. In 1890 he presented his collection of 500 eggs and nests of New England birds to Dartmouth. His real hobby has been collecting 31,000 varieties of stamps. His summer home is at Southport, Me. Here he cares for an orchard of fruit trees, many dozen varieties of lilies, and several dozen rose bushes. He made a collection of colonial antiques to present to Thetford Academy. He is adding to his large collection of minerals and shells, and makes annual excursions to Vermont for clay concretions, which he is assembling for the National Museum of Washington, and special types for the Field Museum of Chicago. Pringle lives in Washington and is assistant superintendent of the International Reform Federation, in which he is very active. He has directed investigations in more than 150 cities and towns, and secured convictions of over 3000 promoters of liquors, drugs, gambling, and other vices. He has been assaulted three times, and his death was published once. But he seems to be very much alive! He has written a great variety of pamphlets and articles on commercialized vices and civic issues, and has compiled the laws on moral reforms in 36 states. Pringle has five children, but lost his wife a couple of years ago.

The Secretary's son, "Sykes" Hardy '27, and Bob McPhail are planning to run an excursion train to California in November, to take in the football game and see some of the Western country during a ten-day trip. It looks like a successful venture Hilton called me up from his club, the Union, where he puts up when in Boston. He and his family are all well. Looks to me as if Ginn and Cos. are going to disregard that retirement rule and keep him at the helm a while longer to steer the ship over the troubled waters until calmer weather settles over the business world The Arlington Advocate lately said: "At the recent annual meeting of the Massachusetts TaxCollectors and Treasurers Association,Arlington's town treasurer was electedpresident of the Association. Mr. Hardy,who has served Arlington in his officialcapacity for the past seventeen years, wasformerly vice president and auditor of theAssociation."

Secretary, 34 Gray St., Arlington, Mass.