1876*

Letters from classmates and members of the larger '76 group would seem to indicate that the past year has been for '76 on the whole a serene period with comparatively few items of importance to report. One classmate wrote that he was slowly recovering from he knew not what. Another suffered a distressful accident from which, however, he emerged as good as new, and a classmate and wife came upon difficult even painful duties in the extreme of summer heat; but there were no losses from the class roll, and no cases of alarming or painful sickness, or certainly none reported.

Two classmates made no report. Five of the thirteen survivors remain more or less active vocationally. Peabody has never given the impression that he was preparing to retire; Ely is lecturing on economics at Columbia Univ.; Hardison has kept up attendance on directors' meetings of the Boston Insurance Co.; McCutcheon, as the owner of rentable house property, has certainly been vocationally active; and Piper keeps on with lectures at the Tufts Dental School. One wishes there had been more reporting on the employment of time; the books read, interesting human contacts, College reminiscence.

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