1894

Letters received at the time of the Fall Round-Up revealed that two of our New York brothers had serious illnesses last winter, namely Archie Matthews and Kid Martyn. The fact that they recovered shows the sound constitution with which your '94 man is endowed. Martyn thinks that his recovery from pneumonia of the most dangerous kind was due to the "miraculous sulfa drug." Matthews says that his recovery was accompanied by the loss of thirty pounds of excess weight.

Herman Lovejoy has an interesting account of his activities:

"I busy myself in various ways about the premises and try to counteract the insidious effects of my septuagenarian years. I have registered here at Yale this year for a graduate course in Anthropology. I have also been brushing up what little German and Latin I acquired years ago and intermittently I peg away at a self-taught course in Spanish."

Henry Howland is another man who is not allowing himself to "rust out":

"I am not quite as well as usual—high blood pressure, etc.—but am still quite in the running. As I get older the people here wish more duties on me, having lately made me a trustee of the public library. With the Church, the Men's Club, Essex North Association, the Library, the Grange, where I am the janitor, overseer and on two standing committees, and with the Air Raid Report Center, I keep fairly busy."

The Boston gang met the other day with five present. The most important development of the meeting was P. Marden's admission that he had written another book. More of that later.

The sympathy of the Class goes to Don Colby in the loss of his wife suddenly on the early morning of December 6. She and Don had spent a happy evening together sitting by a fire in the fireplace in their living room. Mrs. Colby was a woman of rare charm who had made for herself a very large place in the life of Claremont. We shall indeed miss her at our reunions. A son and three daughters survive, the eldest of whom will keep the home open for Don.

Secretary, 14 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.