1878

Harlow has left us, just four years after Sully, our seventh survivor. We are now five. Big friendly Pilgrim Yankee, strict with himself but charitable toward those less so, Harlow had not an antisocial bone in his body.

Bouton complains of weakness in knees; fears his star-gazing days are nearly over Hayt wants a Reunion at Hanover in 1948. Says his doctors give him a clean bill of health and a correspondingly big bill to pay, but he is still troubled with neuritis

Parkhurst, returning from Hanover by airplane (and liking it) has now joined Tarbell in the nineties, while the other three o£ us are well started on our 90th year Parkinson at Hanover Inn for a week in July, seeking breakfast one hot morning, was halted at dining room door and sent back up two flights for a coat; which may remind you of Web Sanborn, commenting at Alumni Dinner on unique personages of Hanover, saying with reference to the late lamented Hod Frary, coatless Inn-keeper, "We may not inquire his present whereabouts, but so far as reported he has not sent back for his c0at.".... Tarbell went to South Dakota for the summer, as usual, but is back in Wisconsin in good health, physical and mental Miss Bertha Vittum, Edmund's sister and household companion during his widowhood, has sold their house in Grinnell, lowa, and returned to their native New Hampshire, and now lives in Meredith winters and North Sandwich summers.

Might not the Colleges of Liberal Arts propose to our military authorities that they recruit their youths in mid-summer between their 18th and 19th birthdays instead of breaking into their educational courses? It would seem as if military training could be as well done when begun in annual classes, as day by day the year around.

Secretary, 103 Otis St., Newtonville, Mass.