Class of 1885

The news of the recent death in France, of Edward Tuck of the class of 1862, brings a feeling of sadness and loss to all who know the story of his very successful and benevolent life. He was not only the senior graduate of our College (95 years) but he was also its most generous financial benefactor, and every loyal alumnus will ever hold him in grateful remembrance.

Our classmate, Otis Hovey, has a very comprehensive write-up in the May issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE prepared by Milburn McCarty Jr. '35, under the title of "Five Decades of Engineering," accompanied by a fine cut in which Hovey's facial resemblance to Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes is strikingly portrayed. Hovey has earned and deserves all the honors which have come to him, and his friends will be much interested in Mr. McCarty's able article, which runs true to life.

The Secretary has had enjoyable calls this spring from several of the members of nearby classes returning from their winter sojourns in Florida. First of them, about a month ago, was Emerson Rice, the faithful secretary of the class of '87, on his way to his summer home in Maine. More recently Bert Gage of the same class called on his way to his summer home in New Hampshire. While they boost Florida for winter residence, they, nevertheless, seem to be very happy to get back to old New England.

The Secretary had a recent pleasant call also from Eleazar Cate, secretary of the class of '88, who was deep in the throes of marshaling every living member of his class at Hanover in June, to celebrate the golden anniversary of their graduation. Each of us secretaries who have undergone that ordeal have a fellow-feeling of mingled joy and sorrow.

Henry Austin and his wife have transferred from their Florida home to his New Hampshire farm, where he has established himself for the summer with his herd (?) of two cows. There is a rumor that on his way north he stopped over in Washington and had a conference with the Secretary of Agriculture in an effort to get some part of the farm subsidy which the New Deal is recklessly distributing, for political purposes, among both the gentleman and dirt farmers of the country —the probabilities, however, are that Henry's politics will bar him from any public pork-barrel distribution.

Secretary, Kimball Bldg., Tremont St., Boston