1897

Keating has undergone an operation and been in the hospital for four months, but he is at home now and coming along well. I talked with him at his house on the telephone from Bill Ham's in Bridgeport when I was there for the Dartmouth-Yale game.

Frank Drew was operated on at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital about the middle of October. At the time this is written he is still in the hospital, but doing well.

Maurice Brown, who in the course of his life has put in many man-hours on the construction of steel bridges, thus indirectly tending to eliminate the picturesque covered bridges such as we crossed to an education, is now engaged in designing the steel work for a million dollars' worth of buildings at the Naval Depot in South Boston.

You remember Newton's observation about the attraction of two bodies varying according to the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. No exception to this has ever been found, except by me. I suspended a plumb line on my porch to see how much the sun pulled it to the East at sunrise and how much to the West at sunset. So far as I could find out it wasn't deflected either way, but hung straight up and down all the time. I should like to have my experiment verified or disproved by my classmates who are interested in things of the mind, if any. If it is practicable to have the sun haul you to the office in the morning and back at night, it would save a lot of gasoline for the arsenal of democracy.

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

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