1897

The committee for the Class reunion next June is Christophe, Bolser and Gibson. The purpose of a college being to transmit the culture of the past to the age that is waiting, it is hoped that the committee will arrange with Bacon for a demonstration of the method employed by him in hoisting coal to his room in Wentworth Hall, the method being to spring from the third story window holding a rope running over a pulley with two hods of coal at the other end of it. Tuition should be charged for this show sufficient, after the expenses of insurance and medical attention, to defray the cost of the reunion.

Gilman reports change of address, both home and office, to London Terrace, 405 West 23rd Street, New York City, where he is a television dealer. It was during our junior year that Eddie Frost showed us the first X-ray photographs, and we could see the bones of our hands. Now Gilman will sell you for $300-1400 a radio-set which, in addition to giving you the spoken word from a distance, presents a moving picture of the football game or whatever else, such as your loved ones. If you want one of these instruments write Gilman and maybe he will give you a special discount.

"Happy," says Montesquieu, "is the nation whose annals are tiresome." Your secretary reports that all members of '97 are happy because he hasn't heard anything much about any of them except Gilman. He, accordingly, passes on to the next generation, where there is more doing—

Cappie Holt's son, Hermon Holt 3d, who is making a colored moving picture epic for the Boy Scouts of America, and who spends much of his time dangling on a rope from the top of a mast to secure photographs of what is going on below, recently took time off to get engaged to a girl having the following qualifications: Graduated at Winsor School and Vassar College, and the recipient of courses in a London College, the College of the City of New York, and Columbia. She is an expert on skis and the proprietress of Ski Pines in Franconia. Her name is Rosalind Smith and her mother is Mrs. Whipple Farnsworth Smith of Beach Bluff, Massachusetts.

Secretary, 50 State St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, 109 Bradford St., Needham, Mass.