1878

Bouton withstood the hurricane, and at last accounts was busy clearing up after it. Thinks he won't vote tor president, voting in a oneparty state being of no significance Hayt proposes to make one more visit to Hanover after the war is over. One or two others of the class will join him there if they are still portable Recent inquiry at Parkhurst's home as to whether he would be found in his office in case the inquirer should call brought word that he had gone to Hanover for a few days' rest; which seems to say that he is able to be about Parkinson, having voted early for Dewey by absentee ballot, has begun his vagrant wanderings. Back at headquarters after a month with son Herman ('13) at White Plains and a weekend in Washington at Dana's ('08) to see his new granddaughter-in-law and great-grandson while they were there, and so netting a happy memory to take with him for the rest of his journey, he is again off to Washington for a longer stay; thence to join Taintor ('09) in Baton Rouge; back with the same stops in the Spring, if he is still on foot.

That figure of $2,267,729.77 expended for athletics for the past college year, and a bal- ance of income at that, is staggering to us old fellows who grudged the cost of a rubber foot- ball for a freshman-sophomore game on the Campus Other things, too, take on a new perspective to our aging eyes. As onlookers at the war we take no comfort in the daily count of thousands of enemy humans "liquidated" at the cost of however few of our own. We hope to see, before we leave it, the world organized, not merely for the prevention of war, international and civil, but for cooperation for the common good. Real peace is a by-product of cooperation, isn't it?

Secretary and Treasurer 1 Chapin Court, Southbridge, Mass.