1894*

President Allen has gone off the plantation again. This time to the Newton Hospital. He took with him as his companion the ailment known as bursitis. He disengaged himself from its embraces via the operation route. For his journey along this route he made careful preparation by driving his car over most of Rhode Island, a good bit of Massachusetts, and some of Metropolitan Boston. Strangely enough such a preparation did not entirely serve to alleviate the twinges of bursitis. Indeed the operating doctor declared it to be his capital case. But all is well that ends well and our own Ted seemed at last accounts to be on the way to where forty yoke of oxen would not keep him away—his office. All the same, we hope that he will not indulge in such a pastime too soon again. It is to wearing on the other members of the Boston gang.

The kind of thing that Matt B. Jones was doing when he was collecting Americana is shown by the fact that the Director of the Harvard Library says that Matt's collection which the Library has been able recently to purchase "forms the most important group of Americana acquired by the Harvard College Library since the Ebeling Library was received in 1818."

The publication of the report of the Alumni Fund in the last issue of the MAGAZINE reminds us that in addition to the job of successfully extricating contributions from his hardboiled classmates Woody Parker carries on the job of Town Clerk in Hudson, Massachusetts. It is a great relief to know that he has been re-elected to this office this year (for the nth time).

After her husband's death Mrs. Sammy Palmer was obliged to go to the Winchester Hospital for treatment that had been delayed. She is reported now to be much better and is spending a few weeks with friends at West Newbury, Massachusetts.

In a picture printed in the Boston Herald of March 19 we were glad to discover Mrs. Carl S. Hoskins, as Vice-President General of the New Hampshire Daughters of the Revolution. This was in connection with a banquet at the Copley Plaza Hotel.

Secretary, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 9 Felton Street, Hudson, Mass.,