1890

Reynolds wrote from Paris in August as follows:

"If I do not turn up for our half-century reunion, it will be the fault of a bombing plane or a machine gun or some other plaything of Mars.

"War clouds permitting I am motoring for a month through the Frenchland and into the region of the Swiss. Considering that life on the edge of a volcano is not a very calm and pleasant existence, the people over here behave very well."

Later he wrote from Washington: "I dallied in France until the first call for reservists came after the indecent matrimonial alignment of Russia and Germany and then by a combination of luck and personal pull succeeded in getting out on the Nieuw Amsterdam, which brought me safely to New York shores on September i. I think that I was probably on the last boat where living conditions were at all normal and where passengers were not sleeping all over the lounge rooms and the corridors. While it lasted I had an excellent time motoring around France and for a week in Switzerland. And up to the time the crash came everything was very normal and very pleasant. But things came very fast at the last and I left behind me a very dark war atmosphere."

Mrs. Mathewson and Marion had a pleasant trip to California last summer

The Secretary was elected last June to membership on the Executive Committee of the General Association of Alumni

Secretary, 34 Gray St., Arlington, Mass.