1890

Cleaves '87 wrote a very appreciative letter (eighty-third received so far) thanking us for a copy of our Class Report. He seems to be President of the North End Improvement Association of San Francisco Saw several Dartmouth men in the large gathering at Charlie Gordon's funeral. After the services the writer spent an hour at the pleasant home of Billy Newton '86, who has been a near neighbor of Gordon Dan Ruggles is back at work again after a long, restful vacation at Nantucket Reynolds went back to Hanover in August to revisit the scenes of his boyhood and of his Fiftieth Reunion

Billy Morgan wrote as follows June 24: "Glad to get the all too brief account of the '9O reunion. Hope I'll see "the MAGAZINE."

"'Twas a sore trial to have been cheated out of being present and especially of being with Victor Safford during his visit at Hideaway. However, it was vitally and unavoidably necessary for me to be in Washington at that time.

"Of course Jimmy made things hum. The inimitable Jimmy has changed not at all in spirit and enthusiasm, and, as a matter of fact, in any way greatly.

"I had always looked forward to the period of shadows as a time for gradual retirement from the stress and strain of my professional duties and which was to be the compensation for oncoming old age. But, goodness me, we here have never been more active and the work has never been more exacting than during the past two or three years. And one of the penalties of working when one is no longer young is the greater necessity for doing ever higher quality work every hour of each day. A bad piece of work at sixty is ten times as serious as it would have been at forty.

"The next time I'm in New England I'm going to run down to Boston and out to see you—that's a threat and a promise.

"Ah, me, what is in store for this hemisphere in the ensuing year or two—who can guess."

Mrs. Edwin J. Morrison has given a very substantial sum to the Thayer School as a memorial to our classmate. Ed was not only loyal to the College but to the Thayer School as well All's well with the Perry Boyntons. Perry is going strong. Young doctor Perry opens his new office October 12. Carroll, the young lawyer is in the Bureau of Indictment in the District Attorney's Office, where Charlie Perkins served such a long time

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