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Here is a clipping from Enterprise andTimes, a Brockton, Mass., paper:—

A proposal that President Roosevelt be asked to formulate a constitution for a "federation of the world" was on file in the New Hampshire legislature today, and debate on the measure was expected to begin later this month. The bill, filed by Rep. Charles A. Holden, Republican, Hanover, a retired Dartmouth College professor, would place the New Hampshire legislature on record as declaring that "all peoples of the earth should now be united in a commonwealth of nations to be known as the Federation of the World."

Our engineering classmate has a job on his hands. I don't know what has happened to his bill. If the "Federation of the World" should become a happy and indissoluble union, and if our legislating classmate should be the acknowledged father pf his new and ponderous country, his humble classmates would, I predict, either shrink into dusty puff balls or swell into immortal giants and become the first all-conquering world cabinet. Discussion of Professor Holden's bill will be on the agenda for Reunion, close by.

Classmates have already been notified of Morrison's sudden death. Our class has sustained a grievous loss at a time when we were counting on seeing him and Mrs. Morrison soon. His obituary appears in this issue.

Monday, March 26, was the seventieth birthday of Robert Frost, now the leading poet in the United States, and George Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities at Dartmouth. Many special events were held in honor of the occasion. In New York City Henry Holt and Cos., American publishers of Mr. Frost's books, gave a luncheon in his honor which was attended by many close friends. In the evening the P.E.N. Club had Mr. Frost as guest of honor at a special dinner at the Netherlands Club. At Amherst the Jones Library opened an exhibition of Mr. Frost's books, manuscripts and photographs. Ap- proximately 130 items were on view in the library, many of which were loaned by the Baker Library at , Dartmouth College.

Ike Cox, now professor of history at Louisiana State University, gives as his new address—1106 Chimes St., Baton Rouge, La.

THE FORTY-FIFTH '99 ROUNDUP, held in Boston on March 3, was attended by 26 members of the class and one guest. All twenty-six 99ers appear above as follows: front row (I to r): Skinner, Sleeper, H. B. Chase, Donahue, Watson, Hopkins, Wiggin; middle row: Corey, Hutchinson, Silver, H. H. Dearborn, Irving, Beal, Parker, Rogers, Clark, C. E. Adams, Gannon, Surrey, Barney, Winchester; back row: Huckins, Hawkes, Hoban, Kendall, Brown. March 3 has always been the traditional unbroken date for the Class Reunion.

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