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The annual after-the-game dinner October 26th, at the Boston City Club brought together 20 men. The "Eighties dinners, begun many years ago by '87, now include men from contemporary classes. Present were Watson '83; Burnett, Gage, Junkins, Sanborn '87; Cate '88; Bartlett, Blakely, Frost '89; Hardy, McDonald, Ruggles, Safford '90; Abbott, Cobb, Lord, O'Brien, Rowe '91; Emerson, Strong '92. Three came for the first time, Ruggles, Lord, Strong. The majority of the men had attended the game at the stadium From this time forward will it not be more appropriate to change the name to Timers Dinners"?

About the time this MAGAZINE reaches you the Frosts will be on their way to their winter home in Florida. At our recent dinner Harry showed us a photograph of their attractive house which has just been completed in Gulfport, a suburban part of St. Petersburg Sully's son, Walter Jr., Yale '40, enlisted in the Naval Reserve and was to begin training November 35, on a cruise for one month followed by 3 months on a school ship in New York harbor. His EMPLOYER* the NEW YORK TIMES, gave him a four months' leave of absence.

At the ninth annual meeting of the National Reclamation Association in September, Warden was re-elected president for the sixth successive year. Eleven States organized the Association. Now 17 States are members. In a brief address, full of facts, Warden gave a condensed outline of the accomplishments of the Association and a clear statement of its aims for the future. The closing paragraphs were as follows: "We are making a new land of homes and crops and pleasant living. The snow in the mountains is a continuing promise of harvest in western America. There will be better homes along every river, from the ice of the glaciers to the ocean that now waits for the water we fail to use. We must not be content as long as a single farmer has to haul the water for his stock, or for his house Two hundred and seventy-five thousand comfortable homes is the gift of reclamation to the nation. Reclamation can give 275,000 more of these comfortable homes to the nation. Civilization in every country has taken its strength from the good earth, from the rainfall in its season, from the rivers that flow to the sea, from the resources that nature put in storehouses when the world began. God will always bless and keep America if we care for and use these resources as He intended."

Secretary, 87 Milk St., Boston, Mass.