1878

How life lengthens! When we graduated a person who reached the age of 90 thereby became famous far and wide. Nowadays it is a narrow circle of acquaintance that does not include at least a half dozen persons all the way from 90 to 100, and we read every day of 103 rd and 105 th birthdays being celebrated in our immediate neighborhood. Mrs., Lewis Parkhurst, who has belonged to the Class from its beginning, will observe her 90th on the eighteenth of this month. And Dr. Tarbell, who doesn't consider himself at all venerable at 90, took in both the Milwaukee and Chicago Alumni dinners. At the latter he fell in with Park Stickney '08, son of one of our six D.D.s Hayt had a date at hospital March 8 for major surgery, and we anticipate a racy account of his experience with physicians, nurses and fellow patients, in his beautiful script, as soon as he recovers sufficient grip on pen or pencil.

In the dearth of Class news, it seems legitimate to stray over into '77 and pay a tribute to W. W. Prescott whose striking obituary appeared in the March MAGAZINE. Those who remember him from college days recall a personality of fine character, fine mind, and correspondingly fine physical presence, of allaround fitness for his noble career. It seems a curious fact that it was his eminence as a Seventh Day Adventist that led to his becoming the greatest globe-trotter the College- perhaps the Nation—has yet produced. One wonders how such a man could repeatedly cross the international date line without having his faith shaken a bit in the precise reckoning of weeks and days, even of hours and minutes, of the calendar that plays so fundamental a part in the Seventh Day doctrine. But none of us is altogether consistent in his faith, and these are days when we do well to honor all men who have faith, and hold to it.

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