1878*

With the aid of its five helpmeets and their memorial gifts, the class made a good showing in the Fund campaign, heading the list of classes in the competitive ranking the management has devised as a stimulus. But instead of swelling with pride we smile at the sight of ourselves with our small objective and few survivors parading in front of the large classes that make up the main column. Hats off to them!.... Parkhurst has transferred his Boston office to 14 Beacon Street. The Baptist building that has sheltered him for many years has been taken over by the Commonwealth in the process of its creeping expansion, and he piously took refuge in Congregational House. Other interesting news of his movements is likely to appear elsewhere in this issue of the MAGAZINE but priorities deny it to this column Miss Vittum dreams of attending the Congregational National Council which, consistently with Park- hurst's move, is to be held next summer at Hanover where her brother spent happy years The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, of which Basil O'Connor '13 is president, has recently published six lectures, delivered at Vanderbilt University last April, in which are repeated references to Dr. Caverly and his associates in his pioneering battle with that dread disease Harlow has spent the summer at Chatham, Mass. where he has enjoyed visits from three of his daughters. He will probably be back in Cleveland Heights before these notes are in print Bouton is jousting against the astrologers, who are active in his vicinity as they are said to be in Hitler's. He poses to them the Dionne Quints much as the Saducees did the woman of seven husbands as a resurrection conundrum, asking if identical horoscopes assure identical life and fortune Sully writes in high spirits, cordially condemning The New Deal and all its works, but approving all-out aid to Russia.

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