1878

At the meeting of class agents in New York in April, Hadlock '87 said he felt grieved that Parkinson '78 had deprived him of the honor due the earliest graduate present, as he otherwise would have been, and by a long shot. However, they both received an embarrassing volume of applause. Funny, isn't it how everybody rubs it into us that we are getting old! Your secretary hesitates to expose himself, else he would make the Council meeting an excuse to see Hanover once more.

You may have noted in reading "Hanover Browsing" in the May MAGAZINE that Parkhurst is adding a lot o£ books to his already well-stocked library for Norfolk Prison, and as is his wont, employs expert advice in making the selection. You might safely draw on his list for your own reading. The same MAGAZINE related that Harlow's son, William H. 'l2, was among the engineers present at the launching of S.S. Dartmouth Victory February 15 at Portland, Oregon.

No deaths in our class since Sully's in August 194 a. Five occurred within an equal period prior to that date. We six are holding on pretty well, and only Harlow disabled as yet.

We are all hoping to see the San Francisco Conference achieve its main purpose 'ere we step off. The gravest menace to its success in the eyes of all the United Nations is not the Russian delegation, which is behaving quite as well as our own would be doing were the Conference sitting in Leningrad, but the U. S. Senate.

It begins to look as if Reconversion at Dartmouth would come in our day, too. Perhaps returning servicemen may fill the gap while the draft still holds the youngsters.

Secretary and Treasurer 1 Chapin Court, Southbridge, Mass.