1878*

Field's sudden departure, noted in the Necrology column, comes as a surprise because, although he was the oldest of us survivors, he seemed to be more alive than most of us. He had been attending regularly to business to the end, and his last letter to the secretary, written just a month before his death, concludes as follows: "I do not feel the advance of years but can only see myself in the picture as I think of my setting among others in the life of the city here.". .. .A clipping from the St. Petersburg TIMES, brought by a winter resident of Florida who says he has come home to Maine to get warm, presents Bouton in vigorous protest against a proposed ordinance legalizing the practice of Astrology within the limits of the City of Sunshine. It seems there are enough resident practitioners of that art to get up a petition for the City Fathers to act upon. The interesting question for us who hibernate in the cold north is whether the Astrologers find their clientage among the summer residents or the native whites and blacks The Class was credited in the April MAGAZINE with four "Dartmouth Regulars" now living. If we might count all of us who were alive when the Fund started we could claim credit for sixteen more: Andrews for 10 years, Ewing and Sanborn 11, Dana and Stickney 12, Blaisdell and Harvey 13, Montgomery 14, Carpenter and Gerould 16, Gerrish and Sawyer 17, Gray Lane, and Vittum 20, Brown 22 Harlow is regaining strength slowly but steadily, and expects to come to Cape Cod as usual for the summer Hayt's ranch, which according to its proprietor just then resembled what the good old fashioned minister used to describe as Paradise, with roses the finest ever and orange blossoms in bloom making the house smell like a wedding or a funeral, was once more the fitting stage for the annual flower show of that community, attracting from all over northern California a flock of some 300 women that sounded like a collection of magpies. And he, lone man, lived through it, with the aid of the High School Band, which, incidentally, had to be fed. Possibly the women had to be, too. Hayt also wants it known that the Association of Northern California is sending its long-time Secretary to the Secretaries Meeting this year, Basil Winslow '20, "a good fellow; has served 16 years without a kick. Be good to him."

Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.

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