1894

The Matt Jones Fall Round-up will return this year to its traditional date, namely—the eve of the Harvard-Dartmouth game. This year that will be Friday, October 24. Hour and place to be announced later. A good attendance is promised, from advance corres- pondence.

'94 men who have been domiciled at the Hanover Inn this summer are Bob Burnap and Phil Marden (with his wife). Length of domicile not given.

Birthdays: Oct. 10, Welton; Oct. 12, E. M.Stone; Oct. 16, Gibbon; Oct. 20, Cassin (who will then become a dignified octogenarian); Oct. 29, B. A. Smalley.

The onh birthday to announce for November is that of Fred Smalley, on November 1. Good reports come from the celebration of past birthdays. Our premier octogenarian, Herman Love joy, received around 25 letters and words of greeting from members of the class on May 31. Fred Allen, for 43 years class president, had his room in the Newton-Wellesley Hospital very much cheered by flowers and callers and letters from about the same number that wrote to Lovejoy. His event came August 6.

Billy Wallis spent part of the summer in New England and on his way back to Washington checked up with his doctor at Framingham as to the results of his operation some time ago. The check-up was good and a happy fall and winter is expected.

"As will be noted in the obituary columns, four of our number died in the three weeks between June 24 and July 14. Flowers in behalf of the class were sent in every case and Mrs. Townsend, Mrs. Sherman, Mrs. Hoskins and Mrs. Griffin have asked the secretary to express their appreciation for these tokens of regard. It is certainly a tribute to the class that each of these men, in his own way, was so much attached to it. Their going leaves 35 graduate members or over 40%. Perhaps it is a time to fall back once more on the familiar ending of Tennyson's Ulysses:

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

The secretary spent two weeks of his vacation at Newbury, Vermont, and while there, was able, with his wife, to make excursions to Arthur Stone's summer cottage at Lake Morey, to Ben Welton's farm at Bethel, and PaulJenks' camp at Whitefield. Phil Marden drove up from Hanover with his wife for a call one afternoon. All in all, it was an exceedingly happy foretaste of our 55th.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. Treasurer, 89 Prospect St., Somersworth, N. H.