1897

Three of our classmates represent the three fundamentals of the old college theory that graduates were preparing for teaching, law, and ministry. These three classmates were chums in college. An old picture shows them in their boyhood and the picture taken at the 50th reunion marks progress.

Tracy, who was sometimes called Svengali in his school days, still wears most of his hair, a restricted moustache and carries his years lightly. After leaving college he started out as high school principal, then a superintendent of schools and for a long time as headmaster and great leader of Kimball Union Academy, which school he was able to enlarge and improve and for which school he has erected a memorial infirmary building in memory of his son, Charles Allen Tracy Jr. He is now retired but still active in the Legislature on the educational committee.

Noyes, a lawyer of longtime practice in the city of Boston, is a man who has reformed. He doesn't part his hair in the middle as he did in his college days. Noyes has numerous avocations, among these outstanding are his leadership in the Old South Club where he was thrown in contact in a very intimate way in this work with the leaders of Boston and Harvard—President Eliot, Richard Olney, John D. Young and Professor Palmer, also one of the great preachers of that era, George A. Gordon. Noyes was for a number of years president of The Twentieth Century Association, where he was thrown in contact with many active and efficient citizens of our own country and groups from abroad. A later president of the Association once said of Noyes that the more he looked into what he has done the more he was convinced that he was the Saviour of the Club. It is extraordinary how much work he had put in and what fine results he had accomplished.

Watson is still wearing his own hair which looks like the powdered periwigs worn by Washington and Jefferson. Watson through his career has- stayed in the orthodox world, living where the orthodox church, often referred to by "Clothespins" in his lectures, has still maintained the respect for the person in the pulpit, possibly less from his theory of orthodoxy than from the character of the man who preaches. I know his classmates think of "A.P." as a man of outstanding character. He preached at the Presbyterian Church in Bedford, N. H., where Dr. William J. Tucker formerly preached, then he was pastor of Daniel Webster's old church in Franklin, N. H., then to Massachusetts, then to Maine and then back to New Hampshire at the fine old town of Charlestown where he still has his pastorate.

These three cronies of college days, the teacher, the lawyer, the preacher, stand out in our class as fine exemplars of their chosen professions.

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