1878

At the annual meeting of The AAVSO it was announced that "Rev. T. C. H. Bouton has the longest continuous record of years spent in observing variable stars of any amateur observer." But Bouton says his eyes have begun to fail and he cannot hope to continue much longer. Nevertheless the stars still occ upy his evenings, while by day he still serves as armed guard of goslings, sitting two or three hours a day, gun in lap, watching for hawks which have replaced the defeated skunks as marauders. At last accounts he had not had a shot at one, while the hawks had captured three of his protege's A while ago Harlow raked up his college account book, showing that his total expenses for the four years (ineluding tuition by scholarship) amounted to $1993.45. How does that look to you moderns? He had earned a little of this sum beforehand by raising chickens, driving cows to pasture, and delivering daily papers Parkhurst has been circulating a slogan which Hayt says should be wrought in bright colored yarn and hung oh all our walls like the "God Bless Our Home" molto that adorned all households 75 years ago. The slogan has only just reached the Class Secretary by circuitous route, but here it is; '"DON'T HURRY! DON'T WORRY! REPLACE DRONES WITH DOERS, POLITICIANS WITH PATRIOTS!"

Hayt adds that the boys overseas have been thinking constructively, that when they come home they will carry out the injunctions of the motto and will insist on filling public posts with men qualified for their tasks The decision to hold the annual meetings of Trustees, Alumni Council, and the several Associations of Class Officers in Hanover next June is welcomed by us old fellows who had abandoned hope of ever seeing the old town again. Now we can at least hope.

Secretary and Treasurer 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass.