1878

Class news is so scanty that the question arises whether we ought to claim space in this column, but the old boys like to see the '78 banner kept flying, and so it will be, for the present. .... Hayt begins to doubt whether he is getting his money's worth out of the lavish expense for his rehabilitation, but says that in making the investment, with the chance that he might make the crossing instead of the come-back, he preferred to travel first class Parkhurst is hoping to resume his usual winter recreation of sawing wood before the season is over, but we think it is time to go cautiously Parkinson didn't fly South. His reservation on the plane was canceled on the morning of flight, so he had to travel by rail on day coaches, as of old, and had a rough passage. But here he is, in Baton Rouge (538 Cornell Ave.), until further notice, having wandered from son to son; Southbridge, White Plains, Washington. A popular song that he hasn't heard but is glad to hear of, expresses in its first words his present occupation: "X wonder as I wander."

The first message over the Atlantic Cable, which occurred when we antediluvians were younger than any of you, inspired John G. Whittier to write his Cable Hymn. It is worth your reading today. The sudden contraction of time and space led him to foresee Wendell Willkie's One World We are all discussing compulsory military training. But why wholly military? Why not selective service? The war has demanded technicians as well as soldiers. Why not training for public service, each man for the service he is best fitted for? Then rejections would not be so many. Why should all the war services have their training academies and only the Civil Service have none?

Secretary and Treasurer

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