1900

Word has been received of the marriage on Dec. 20 of Harold Hastings' daughter, Mary, to Pierre Oppliger at Park Avenue Friend's Meeting House at Baltimore. Mr. Oppliger is teacher of French at the Windsor Mountain School, Manchester, Vt., and Mary will be thus returning to the region which was the original home of the Hastings family. Harold writes that his youngest son, Henry, Dartmouth '39, has enrolled as a cadet in the Army Air Corps, and is now awaiting orders.

Another marriage recently announced is that of Bob Jackson's daughter, Sarah Branch, widow of William Forbes Morgan, to Milton Dorland Doyle, Manhattan broker, vice-president of the Washington Redskins. The ceremony took place in Ellicot City, Md.

Lem Hodgkins has been ill for some weeks at his home in Worcester, Mass., but recent reports of his progress are encouraging.

The death of Lou Merry, recorded in another column, will be received with regret by all members of the class. Lou was one of our most reliable members, always present at class gatherings whenever circumstances would permit.

In the latest report for the class of '97 the secretary, Weld Rollins, advances the proposition, supported by impressive statistical evidence, that the longevity of members of Phi Beta Kappa averages to be greater that that of their classmates. That set Walter Rankin to figuring. He has arrived at the conclusion that, thus far, for 1900, the opposite is true—that a greater proportion of Phi Betes in the class are dead and that they died at an earlier age than is true of the class as a whole. Further research by the secretary brings to light the fact that the prize for longevity goes to nongraduate members of the class. The reader may derive his own conclusion, always bearing in mind that 1900 is an exceptional group.

Secretary, Hanover, N. H.