1898

Three letters from '98 classmates on the Pacific Coast have come in recently.

Fred Bennis and his sister are planning to spend next summer at their ancestral home in Maine. Bob Peck states that he prefers a heavy rain in California to a New England blizzard. John C. Moulton, in sending in his ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscription writes of the very interesting work he is doing in defense work in the radio field.

"Saltonstall Joins Brilliant Group" is the headline of an interesting article by W. E. Mullins in the Boston Herald of January 8. Mr. Mullins writes of the distinguished men who have represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate. He closes his article with a brief paragraph about a Dartmouth man of the class of 1801, which reads as follows: "To the average school boy, of course, Webster was our most famous senator. No living man heard his immortal Reply; but we have the testimony of many who did, to justify his eminence as one of the greatest orators of all time. The scholarly Everett said of it: 'I have never heard anything which so completely realized my conception of what Demosthenes was when he delivered the oration on the Crown.' "

The class of 1898 graduated seventy. Fortyone are now living; eleven have passed the seventieth mile-stone. There have been forty- two non-graduates; twenty-six are now living; ten are over seventy. All the other living members are runners-up and rapidly approaching their seventieth. Remember Cato learned Greek at eighty.

Secretary and Treasurer, 43 Beals St., Brookline, Mass.