1894

This month's column shall be entirely devoted to "inspirations" that come from reading the writings of other columnists in March,

First, while bouquets are being passed out to class agents, let a word be said about the steady painstaking and successful work which Woody Parker does year after year for the class of '94. Not so spectacular as some, maybe, but he arrives. It was a happy event when President Allen and Secretary Merrill rode over to Hudson some few years ago and induced Woody to take on this job.

Next, (borrowed from Brother Richardson 'oo) how many of us are now living in the houses in which we were born? This writer thinks at once of Dwight Hall and he has suspicions of Don Colby and Phil Marden. At all events he is pretty sure that Dwight and Don are practising Law in the same offices their fathers did. How about it—has anyone been missed?

Third, (borrowed from Brother Gannon '99) what birthdays in May? Well, outstandingly and supremely, is that of Lovejoy, our oldest graduate who will be eighty years old Saturday, May 31. Hats off and congratulations, Herman. But John Phillips was also born in May—the fifth day. John came three years later than Herman and has prevailed over much buffeting by sickness—as indeed has Herman.

This birthday business begins too late for the secretary to announce his own this year- March 3. But it prompted him to recall this highly appropriate word (appropriate for all these birthdays, indeed) from Emerson's Terminus, which that gentleman wrote when he was sixty-four: As the bird trims her to the gale, So I trim myself to the storm of time. I man the rudder, reef the sail, Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime: "Lowly faithful, banish fear, "Right onward drive unharmed; "The port, well worth the cruise, is near, "And every wave is charmed."

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