1894

Members of the Class will recall George W. Robinson, who was with us during freshman year. His soubriquet was "Flash." He went to Harvard and has done more or less writing. For example, "The Value of History, by Daniel Heinsius, translated into English for the First Time with Notes and Appendices." The announcement of this book betrays all the attention to minute scholarship which characterized Mr. Robinson during his period at Dartmouth. For instance, when George D. Lord asked his class in Greek to explain all the passages in a certain book which contained the particle "an" and the class successfully rebelled against doing it, Mr. Robinson had it all done.

ADDRESSES

New addresses: Everett W. Boyd, 188 School Street, Roxbury, Mass.; John L. Phillips, 71 Winsor Place, Glen Ridge, N. J. It should also be said here that Victor Spooner has returned to his summer place at North Bridgton, Maine.

The chef d'oeuvre this month shall be Phil Marden's book, to read which this columnist has used a part of his first week of "retirement." A full-dress review of this book appeared in the February MAGAZINE, and for an authoritative estimate of its value as literature, you are referred to that review. In the intimacy of this column one likes to refer to the chapter entitled "A Domestic Tragedy," which deals with the antics of the animal whose principal distinction is its scent. In reading this chapter the average '94 man will doubtless recall the evening at Hanover when our late classm ate Allen Crocker was greatly agitated because he was led to suppose that one of these animals had gotten into his bed. One wonders why Phil didn't also refer to this incident.

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

The book has a good deal of autobiography. It discloses what Phil did when he went to church as a boy. He hadn't altogether gotten over these boyish habits when he went to College. Very likely the hymnbooks now used at chapel are different from the ones used in our day. If not, then a book could undoubtedly be found with the words "Pater Ducit" inscribed on the fly leaf. Thus did Phil describe Pa Leeds, who was the pastor in our time. This habit of Phil's was not confined to church. The Secretary and he were roommates in our sophomore year and the Secretary has one or two books in which Phil wrote more or less irrelevant stuff on the fly leaf.

From this book one learns with interest why Phil goes to a symphony concert. Apparently it is partly in order to get his afternoon nap. See chapter entitled, "Tympani Alley."

In reading this book one is reminded of an orange which looks as if it hadn't much juice. However, you begin to extract the juice and the further on you get the more juice you find until you have a glassful, more or less. Well, Phil gets hold of something like the "Dominical Letter" which doesn't look at all promising. Before you are through, however, he has devoted an entire chapter to it and with surprising interest.

Perhaps it ought to be said for those who haven't the February MAGAZINE immediately at hand that most, if not all, of this book originally appeared in the Saturday evening issues of the Lowell Courier-Citizen in the course of thirty years or less, under the title "Chat." Well, if you want to have some very good companionship with an unusually well-stored and versatile mind which knows how to express itself in felicitous and sinewy English, buy a copy of In Times Like These. It is published by the Courier Citizen Company, Lowell, Massachusetts.

MAJOR WILLIAM H. BALCH '97

Secretary 83 Oak Avenue, Belmont Mass. Class Agent, 9 Felton Street, Hudson, Mass.