1878*

One more of our number has left us. Telly Smith, who in College days was recorded as Dryden Martelle Smith, but appears in the Necrology column as Webster Dryden Martelle, passed peacefully away January 23, 1941. We remember with pleasure his presence at our 60th, his first and only reunion. He added much to the appearance of the group.

We are now only eight; not enough, as Parkhurst observes, to make a baseball team. All eight survivors were in good spirits when last heard from; but Stone has not been reported recently, and we are anxious to hear from him.

Two of us, comparing notes on our admission to College, find that both were conditioned in Greek, one by Professor Proctor, who was brought fresh to memory by the recent sketch of his son in these columns; the other by Tutor Bradley. The former condition was made up by a few weeks' tutoring at the hands of the '76 man. The latter was forgotten. It would be interesting to know how many more were conditioned in any subject and what luck they had in making up.

So tell us your experience; or are you sensitive about it still?

What absurdities admission conditions were. There was a time when the great University that proclaimed requirements for admission one awkward notch above others accepted a full third of its freshmen with conditions. That was saying to the poor fellow who was considered not prepared to do the required work that he might come ahead and carry all the work required of those fully prepared, plus a tidy stint in addition. And that plan was imitated all the way down through the school system.

By the way, does it seem to you quite credible that the Prof. Proctor we regarded with awe was so little older than we were?

Miss Bertha Vittum, helpmeet and home-maker for her brother Edmund during his long widowhood, spent July and August with a niece in the old home town of Sandwich where Vittum used to spend his vacations. But she makes her home in the house her brother left her in Grinnell, lowa. She feels a lively interest in the Class.

Hayt has made a discovery quite new to him, that climbing ladders and trees to pick fruit is not appropriate exercise for octogenarians.

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