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Temple writes that he has a grandson born January 23, the father and mother being Richard S. (1930) and Suzanne Temple. Temp says that he is looking forward to renewing his youth.

The figures in our class report about Phi Beta Kappas living longer than their classmates have attracted the attention of some newspapers. In the Boston Herald for March 4 there was an editorial about them. A New York lawyer writes me that the principle involved is that the good die young. My predecessor, Solomon, didn't look at it in quite that way. His view of it was: Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared with her.

Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Will Rogers looked down from an airplane and saw some country which seemed to him never to have been discovered before. It turned out to be the Garden of Eden. When I find that Solomon's mind worked the way mine does, I can understand how Will must have felt.

Secretary, 53 State St., Boston, Mass. Class Agent, 1005 Center St., Newton Center, Mass.