1895

I have welcome news from Mrs. Rumery. She writes that, "for the first time in five months, Howard went downstairs today and out to look at his garden. It was an event, I can tell you. Most of those five months he has been confined to his room. Our doctor says now he is doing very well ... and thinks he is coming through. He has enjoyed your letters and the thought that came with them. Friends have meant so much in these long days and weeks of just doing nothing. Everyone has helped to make his days less lonely."

As at this writing the October issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, edited by Charles Widmayer, the new editor, has not been received. I cannot expect to receive a free (or literal) translation of "H. Dan" Watson's quotation from Caesar's BELLUM GALLICUM just now. Morrison, Rumery, Marden, Cleaveland, and others of '95 can translate the lines at sight, I presume. But how terrified the present Dartmouth student would be to find these lines and nothing else in a final examination paper upon which his hoped-for degree depended.

According to the Christian ScienceMonitor, published in Boston, classmate Will Rice was guest of honor at a Kiwanis Club luncheon recently. William F. Rice Jr. is a chemist at the Edison Storage Battery Co. in New Jersey. "Sliver's" second son, Winthrop A., is professor of modern languages at Syracuse University and is the happy father of four children.

Classmate Wilbur D. Spencer, in yielding to my appeal for a letter, writes: "There seems to be nothing to report in my case. I am now a widower, retired from business in an active sense. I am seventy-two years old and live practically alone here in Augusta, my home now for over twenty years."

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.