1903

The terrific experience of being in the midst of a raging forest fire fell to the lot of Harold Bullard in Alfred, Me. The loss of his home and all save the clothes on his back and a few articles of furniture was the result. A card from "Bull" states that he is all right even if somewhat tired, for he has been fighting fire and on patrol duty for most of six days and nights trying to catch the culprit who set the fires. He has the offer of an apartment in town for the winter. You have the sympathy of us all, "Bull."

Mort French and his wife also passed several anxious hours when the fires were raging at Kennebunkport, Me., their home being within three miles of the flames. But the fires were stopped and Mort is leaving for Florida for his winter's rest on November 10. His address will be 20 Salina St., Apt. 4, Delray Beach, Florida.

Correspondence with William W. Grant of Denver always brings home to me some food for thought, and I am passing on to you a paragraph from a recent letter. "I have just gotten back from a tour of the American Church Union. That as you may know—and as C. T. Hall certainly knows—is an organization of the Episcopal Church devoted to holding the Church together on the basis of its Book of Common Prayer, and is naturally opposed to all the so-called unity schemes for a synthetic church so much in vogue in these days. After all, when everything is said and done, the most harm this age has done to America and to the world, is the suggestion that only size and numbers count. I think it was the motive to disprove this thesis that animated the late Justice Brandeis in his last book, written to show that bigness in and of itself amounted to very little. Yet in every human activity—except the love of God which is not considered of sufficient importance to deserve any particular attention in and of itself—we are met with the demand for larger size, greater numbers, etc., ad nauseam. However there is no need for me to go off on a tangent about it. I think we see some evidence of the reaction against it in the efforts of various people in the educational line to start small and very simple schools. They want to get the emphasis off of bigness and the complications that go with it. I think the article in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE explaining the "Great Issues" course was quite right in the statement that the basic considerations for the problems of the times are moral rather than social or economic."

Fred Baker of Lancaster, N. H., writes of a visit with Ned Kenerson in October, a call from Harry Hess in August, and a recent one from Howard Harris 'O2, all most pleasurable. Fred is enjoying good health and is working hard in his law practice. The Snow Shoveling Club, of which Fred was co-founder, has voted to admit Harold Ropes to membership with the hope of revamping his technique.

A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass. Treasurer, 85 John St., New York 7, N. Y.