1885*

Classmates, Commencement this year has been set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 14, 15 and 16, and as you know we shall then and there be due to celebrate the 55th anniversary of our graduation. It is expected that every living member will be in attendance or furnish a sound and adequate excuse, so let each of us make our plans accordingly—"a word to the wise is sufficient."

The Secretary recently received from our classmate, Dr. Warren S. Adams of 580 Park Ave., New York City, an interesting letter in which he states that the volumes (examples of his own handicraft in bookbinding) which were exhibited by him at the San Francisco Fair at the invitation of its management, are now being shown by "The Guild of Book Workers of New York," all of which is certainly highly complimentary to his handicraft "hobby.' He left in February for a trip to Arizona and probably points farther west and plans to return home by motor in the spring.

Through "Life" Philbrick of Hollywood, Calif:, the Secretary received the sad rumor of the death of our classmate, Samuel M. Wilcox of Galveston, Texas, which has since been confirmed by his fain ily to the effect that he died February 7th but the particulars have not yet been received. His death reduces the list of our living graduates to fifteen members; his obituary will appear in the May issue of the MAGAZINE.

As intimated in previous notes, the Secretary is now sending in to the Archives of the College, the original book of record of the meetings of the Kappa Sigma Epsilon Fraternity, which as the older graduates will recall was one of the freshmen literary societies that for many years flourished in our College. This record book covers the period from February 9, 1869 to October 26, 1882, when the society was disbanded and its furniture and effects were auctioned off to the highest bidder. This record book was bid off by our classmate, Sam Hudson, who has since preserved it until he recently turned it over to the Secretary, who with Sam's approval is now depositing it in the College Archives. These records contain the names of the great and near-great undergraduates of the College of those distant days; the Secretary believes that the following excerpt from those records may be worth recounting in these notes. It is taken from the records of the meetings of the society after our class took charge on October 12, 1881; George Whitcomb was president and Dick Hovey was secretary pro tem, "Life" Philbrick and Bert Foster were the editors and Frank Whipple was treasurer. During that meeting, as the weather was getting cool and as the College centralheating plant did not begin to operate until some twenty-five years later, upon motion the chair appointed a committee consisting of Brothers Bayley, O'Brien and Briggs "to secure a stove." At the next meeting, which was held the following week, the "committee on the stove" asked leave "to sit again," which was granted, but Brother G. C. Kimball interposed the following radical, directive motion—"That the committee be instructed to steal a stove if possible, failing in that, to borrow one and as a last resort to buy one," which was unanimously carried. It is comforting to know that this heating dilemma was adequately solved by the following entry appearing in the record at the next meeting "committee on the stove, reported the purchase of a stove for $7." Thus was one of the emergencies successfully and legally met, of those undergraduate days of fiftynine years ago.

Fund Contributors for 1939 Contributors: 8 (50% of graduates). Total gifts: $211.56 (131% of objective). OTIS E. HOVEY, Class Agent.

1885

Austin, Henry H. Bayley, Edwin A. Brooks John P. Chase, Charles F.

Floyd, Charles W. Hovey, Otis E. Hudson, Samuel H. Philbrick, Eliphalet F.

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