1890

A letter from Mrs. William P. Earle, Miami, Fla., dated July 18, announced the death of her husband, reducing our ranks to 13. In response to my letter for information about herself and their married life in Miami, she wrote that she, a widow of several years, was a friend of the first Mrs. Earle and a next-door neighbor in Miami; that two years after the death of Mrs. Earle she and Will were married; and that they enjoyed 9 years of almost perfect happiness and companionship. Mrs. Earle wrote that she was of French Huguenot ancestry, a native of Tenn. of the deep South with grandparents at one time large slave owners, while Will's ancestors go back to the time of the Mayflower. There is a Miami Dartmouth alumni club and a Phi Delta Theta club which they attended. At the 50th anniversary of his membership as a Phi, Will was presented by the brothers with a certificate to that effect. On the receipt of his photograph from Mrs. Earle his In Memoriam will appear in the November issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

George S. Mills Jr. announced the death of his mother April 14 at the Fairview Nursery Home, Bennington, Vt. She fell out of bed fracturing her hip on the preceding Monday and died of an embolism on Wednesday morning, April 14. Mrs. Mills maiden name was Katherine Vose of Calais, Me. I am writing to George Mills who is a teacher in the Cleveland High School for information of his mother's early life.

Mrs. Elmer D. Sherburne died recently at her home in Melrose, Mass. On receipt of information from her daughter I will give an account of her life in the November issue.

We are all indebted to Ralph S. Bartlett for his interesting account of life and conditions in Hanover in the Gay Nineties. It needed to be written and he has done a good job. While there has been a complete transformation in the plant of the college under the administrations of Presidents Tucker and Hopkins, there is one thing that has not changed, the Dartmouth Spirit. It has translated itself into the fine dormitories, halls, library and gymnasium. No longer can it be said that Dartmouth has the largest gym and the smallest library of all the colleges. What a transformation there has been in the village of Hanoverl When it has run its full course Hanover will be the most beautiful college village in the land.

Secretary and Treasurer, 3 Dartmouth Place, Boston, Mass.