1878*
Here, just returned without regrets, is an invitation from The Graduating Class requesting "the pleasure of your company at their Farewell Reception, Conant Hall, Thursday, 9 o'clock, P.M., June 27, 1878." Were you there? Tell us about it.
... .What are you reading? Tarbell says he is enjoying The Nazare?ie, which came to him at Christmas. Parkinson, who doesn't travel, finds Rollo Brown's I Travel ByTrain both interesting and edifying. Bouton, finishing Next To Valour, by John Jennings, a historical novel covering the period of the French and Indian War, says it is of especial interest to any who, like himself, spent their early life in those New Hampshire towns where the scene of the book is largely laid and to whom are familiar the families of many of the personages portrayed. Bouton is sure the author drew his facts largely from the ten volumes of Provincial Records prepared by his grandfather, Nathaniel Bouton, long a Trustee of Dartmouth Harlow's latest book was Roberts' Arundel. He reads periodicals galore: Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, SATURDAY EVENING POST, READERS DIGEST, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, and INDIANS- AT WORK Miss Bertha Vittum spent October in California, taking in the Fair along with other interests, and seeingmany wonderful things, but is again at home alone in the house occupied by her brother and herself during his declining years Interest in Murals has spread to Woodstock, where in the lobby of the Post Office are pictured characteristic activities and historic scenes and personages of the town. Among the latter, three in the foreground representing eminence in education, religion, and politics, appear John Cotton Dana, Hosea Ballou, and Jacob Collamer Speaking of murals, one of the class offers to such of the alumni as feel violently about those of Hanover the sympathetic admonition to center their hopes, not upon erasing the paintings offensive to them, but upon overshadowing them by others more representative of the great traditions, to face some concourse through which flow in abundant volume more vital currents of Dartmouth than trickle through the two basements where nobody would go to look for the coat of arms or the aegis of the institution, and where only those who enjoy their embellishments need view them Mrs. M. L. Stimson says she thinks with interest of the group she met at our 50th, and wonders how many of that company are still here. The answer to date is: six members of the class, two sons, eight or nine (one not recently reported) of the eleven matrons, and three daughters, all retaining happy memories of that memorable gathering.
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