1890

These notes come from a very recent graduate of a Washington hospital. It was the first time in the course of a partially misspent life that your secretary had entered hospital portals for treatment, but he made up for lost time by spending some seven weeks there with a bad case of pneumonia, with additions and complications. At one time the betting was against his recovery, but he finally won out in the tenth inning. While there he had the attendance of Dr. Billy Morgan. But as that distinguished physician is only interested in troubles pertaining to the digestive regions, and as my troubles were in different parts of the anatomy, all that he was able to do was to sit on the sidelines and cheer me, on. He is in very fine condition and the picture of health, with no trace of the long illness that befell him last year. He says that in spite of his advanced age he still has people coming to him as patients and willing to pay for his services.

From Orono, Maine, comes an announcement that an anonymous gift of $22,500 to the University of Maine Foundation was made by a member of our class. As it would be difficult for you to guess the name of the donor, it was our Thomas Allen Perkins, who, after his Hanover career, went to California to practice law. The fact that it was an anonymous gift shows that there must have been some change in our "Si," as during college days there certainly was no lack of publicity about his doings. As he passed away in 1922 and the announcement has just been made by the Treasurer of the College in 1947, it certainly was a well-kept secret.

Nutt, who has developed into a peripatetic during the last year, has changed his address again. He is now located at 715 Magnolia Ave., Sanford, Florida.

Hardy has recovered splendidly from his bursitis, and Gerould writes me that he saw him very recently and that he appeared to be in very good condition. That being the case, I have offered to lift from my convalescent shoulders his former job of class secretary and to give it back to him, but I have not received as yet any acceptance of my generous offer. He entertained his famous football son (Sykes) and family over Thanksgiving and his ailing arm was probably in condition to attend properly to the dinner bird of that day.

The Hilton estate seems to have become a kind of Dartmouth Wayside Tavern. I constantly hear of gatherings there of members of the class, who are given food and lodging, and of a very satisfactory nature according to their reports. I regret that Washington is too far away for me to take advantage of this boon.

Secretary and Treasurer, 2456 Tracy Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.