1895

By the time these notes are printed in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE my honorable classmates will probably have received the January and February issue of the Reunionist. And in one of these issues it is likely that my plea of Confession and Avoidance will be noted. Vermont is snug and warm under a blanket of snow two or three feet thick. But above this thick white blanket, Vermont is not snug and warm. Winter has been tough and unrelenting.

Fred -Cleveland, Jessie Marden and "Sliver" Rice (and perhaps other 'gsers) are smiling with comfort, I suppose, as they bask in the warmth and the shine of the sub-tropical sun, in California and Florida. Fred and his good wife left for St. Petersburg January 27 and plan to stay till April. "Sliver" and Mrs. Rice arrived in St. Petersburg the second week in January. They too will return home in April. "We call it cool here, but it is nothing to what you are getting. Some sun every day and several days have been really warm," he writes. Dr. and Mrs. Jesse K. are wintering in Claremont, Calif. I suppose. I know from experience how comfortable one can be in that attractive college community in the winter. We may all well be glad that these useful persons are not in Greece any more. The president of our class writes: "Little Willie has to get out his little snow shovel about every third day and use it vigorously for from half an hour to two hours. But that doesn't bother a young fellow like me, and then, too, it is good for the figure, keeps a bay window from developing."

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.