1880

With only three of us left the field for our class information is exceedingly limited, so in order to help keep our place in the sun, your scribe is of necessity obliged occasionally to contribute something about himself.

We have been out of the picture for sometime by reason of a very uncomfortable attack of the grippe and a persistent head cold which we have been unable to shake. It came upon us on the heels of a very enjoyable September vacation in the same old log cabin in the wilds of Maine on the shores of one of its most beautiful lakes which has been our vacation home for many years back.

Here our chief occupation, besides obtaining needful rest, has always been to enjoy the out-of-doors as nature intended, tramping over the well-known trails with an occasional whipping of the nearby lake and neighboring ponds fly fishing for trout and salmon.

Apart from this we have pursued the even tenor of our way at our routine occupation with our official family.

Always among the first to respond to our inquiries for information, we were glad to receive from George M. Davidson of Oak Park, Illinois, a nice letter which somehow got side-tracked in the mails and was received too late for publication in the last issue, informing us that owing to war conditions and gasoline and rubber restrictions, he has been obliged this last summer to forego his customary extended automobile trips around the country and has been at home most of the time confining his indulgence in his favorite pastime to taking short trips to nearby resorts and attending conventions and meetings in Chicago of Scientific and Technical Associations in which he is interested. As a retired Chemical Engineer he enjoys listening to the discussions of subjects in which he took an active part before his retirement from active business several years ago on a pension from the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company.

He seems to have recovered entirely from his former illness and is always interested in news of Dartmouth men and Dartmouth happenings which he obtains mainly through the Alumni Magazine.

Sexretary, 10 Post Office Sq., Boston, Mass.