1878*

A very readable biography of John Cotton Dana has appeared, written by Frank W. Kingdon and sponsored by the Newark Public Library and Museum. Well written and well printed, it presents Dana as the dynamic many-sided man that he was, discussing constructively art with the artists, literature with the scholars, education with the educators, science with the scientists, business with the merchants and manufacturers, city planning with the politicians, while all the time pursuing relentlessly his crusade to make over libraries and museums from storehouses into power stations. If you want a copy, send $3 to Miss Beatrice Winser, Librarian, Newark, N. J.

Harlow left Chatham early in September for Cleveland Heights, driven by his daughter Louise (Mrs. Allen Gordon) the 400 odd miles to Philadelphia in one day, and another 400 plus to Massillon, Ohio, on another day, which certifies him as a tough traveler. His daughter Mabel (Mrs. Greenwood) is now Librarian of one of the Cleveland high schools .... Hayt was proceeding happily with his plan of renting his ranch and taking life easier when his eyes kicked up trouble, and before he had taken steps to find out what ailed them, his gall bladder, hitherto friendly, suddenly fetched him a clip in the back with a bunch of stones it had been collecting on the sly. So now he is submitting tamely to the ignominy of a diet list, about which he has been in the habit of condoling rather condescendingly with those of us who are addicted to that kind of planned economy. But Hayt still is able to philosophise upon war and election Parkinson's second grandson, Samuel D., of White Plains, N. Y., (son of Herman 0., 'l3) was accepted for Dartmouth this Fall, but decided to attend M.I.T. As all the remaining grands are granddaughters the Parkinson name is not likely to clutter the Dartmouth catalog again for the pres- ent Mrs. Charles A. Tucker has given up her home at 104 Buckingham Street, and is now to be addressed at 702 Belmont Avenue, Springfield, Mass.

The sketch of Leland Griggs in the October MAGAZINE, with its very graphic series of photographs, is of lively interest to those older Secretaries who on one or two occasions after Secretaries' Meeting enjoyed the professor's ministrations, intellectual and gastronomic, at a cabin not too far away, and to no Secretary more than he of the Class that graduated the year that the little Griggs first appeared on the scene.

Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.

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