1889

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Frost have returned to their home in Swampscott, Mass. During the summer they were at their camp on Crystal Lake, at Gilmanton, N. H. An unfortunate acident happened there in June. Harry's daughter Doris (Mrs. Walter S. Gay of Oak Park, Ill.) came East with her daughter Janice to spend the summer at the camp. Soon after arrival there, she fell and broke her leg. It necessitated her confinement for several weeks in a hospital in Wolfboro.

"Hal" Knight's oldest son, William H. Knight of South Hills, W. Va., a suburb of Charleston, has a family of four children, now that a third daughter was born last Fourth of JulyRev.

Arthur Chase spent the summer at Branford, Conn. He has had a cottage there for many years. This coming winter he will be in New Haven, Conn., where he has taken an apartment at 324 Willow Street.

Miss Martha Flagg Emerson was at Marblehead, Mass., during the past summer and until mid-October, occupying the home of her uncle, the late James Chester Flagg. For the winter her address will be c/o Mrs. F. C. Copeland, Fort Hoosac Place, Williamstown, Mass.

"E. B." Davis passed the summer months in Hanover, N. H., where he devoted much time to study in the College Library. For the coming winter he will be at his home in New Brunswick, N. J.

Communication with Alec Nelson has finally been restored after a lapse of more than a' year since any word had come from him. During the past few months several letters were written to him, some of them sent as airmail. When no reply came, an appeal was made to the Postmaster of Santa Ana, Calif., to ascertain whether illness, death or nothing else but procrastination was causing the silence. Alec came to life and beat out by two days the reply of the Postmaster, who reported "Mr. Nelson still resides at 808 North Parton Street and informs me that he has just written you." In his letter Alec admitted that he had again been troubled with procrastination, due this time to unusually hot weather. Considering the eighty years each has lived, he writes that he and his wife are in the best of health that could reasonably be expected. He sends kindest regards and best wishes to all living members.

About a half-century ago Melvin O. Adams and Charles Theodore Gallagher, prominent Dartmouth men of that time, spent a part of one summer in England together. While there they visited Sulgrave Manor and the quaint little seaport town of Dartmouth, at the mouth of the River Dart. Their quest was to find out all they could about the English lord from whom Dartmouth College received its name. When they returned, they brought home beautiful colored lithographic copies of the Arms of the Second Earl of Dartmouth, its prominent features being its stag's head and the five-pointed mullet. Your secretary was the recipient from them of one of these copies, which is now framed and a treasured possession. When the eminent genealogist Mr. Waters, in 1889, found, folded in the will of one Andrew Knowling of about 1649, a piece of paper three inches long and about two inches wide, written over with Latin, it proved to be the very link that made the chain complete between the Washingtons of Amercia and the Washingtons of England. This important discovery had for its results not only the definite settlement of the line of our own great Washington's ancestry, but the establishing of direct connection between his family and that of the Second Earl of Dartmouth, from whom our College was named, they each being descendants of a common ancestor, Lawrence Washington of Sulgrave Manor.

In the flag of the United States, it is interesting to note that the five-pointed mullet, which appears in the Washington Arms and also in the Arms of the Second Earl of Dartmouth, was employed by George Washington, instead of the heraldic star of six points, when he originated the first Stars and Stripes in 1777 as the emblem of independence. The flag of the District of Columbia, approved in 1938, is also based on the shield of the Washington coat-of-arms, heraldically read as "Argent, two bars and in chief three mullets-gules." This flag likewise has the five-pointed mullet of the Washington Arms, which are three in number above two red horizontal bars on a white background.

Secretary and Treasurer, 108 Mt. Vernon St., Boston 8, Mass.