1878*

A neighbor of the Secretary, a warm admirer of the late Dr. Weymouth and one of the first infants delivered by him, presents this snapshot of a simple memorial set up on the common at Lyme last summer. The Secretary has failed by considerable correspondence to obtain details of the dedication, or learn just why the memorial took this particular form, but understands the stone has some traditional association with the good doctor's friendly ways. One report is that it was used as an annual lifting test by him and a few familiars. The inscription on the bronze tablet, as given at third hand from memory, is: ERECTED BY FRIENDS OF LYME AND THETFORD TO THE MEMORY OF OUR DOCTOR, GEO. W. WEYMOUTH-1856-1933.

Hayt has come to the conclusion that the West produces better football material than the East, and that eastern teams better stay East. He was deterred by an eleven-day rain from seeing the intersectional football game on Jan. 1, at Pasadena, from which the defeated team, in spite of the drenching ran, brought back east 1115,000 as its share of the gate receipts. Another deluge failed to prevent Hayt's attending, as is his habit, the Alumni Association dinner at San Francisco in February at which President Hopkins was the very informal guest of honor, "just one of us, sitting around the lounge of the University Club for an hour before dinner, and making a fine talk after."

Bouton has had a series of upsettals during this extraordinary winter, ranging from intestinal flu to bronchitis and resulting heart weakness, but was able in an interval between attacks to attend and enjoy the annual banquet of the Florida alumni. He is now recuperating, and while still unable to move his body as far as down town, is using his enforced leisure to wander into wide and distant fields through reading. He finds particularly thrilling Scouting on Two Continents, autobiography of Major Frederick Burnham, D.5.0., an extraordinary American, highly honored in England, of whom

Rider Haggard said, "In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance."

Bouton also recommends with enthusiasm, Green Islands of Glittering Seas, by an Australian naturalist, which he says opens his eyes to nature's beauties and marvels far beyond what he had previously learned.

Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.