1902

I have received a letter from our greatest peripatetic, classmate Roy Hatch, who seems to have exhausted the U. S. A. and is looking over the British Isles. This note comes from Dumfries, Scotland, where the Dumfries Burns Club presented him with a facsimile copy of the Kilmarnock Edition of Burns' first poems. Roy says his next move is to "Edinburg and Scott" and then to "London and Dickens." I had thought Roy was building a winter home in Florida to settle down but oh! no!

Also I supposed we had Julius Arthur Brown home from Beirut and settled at Colgate, only to learn he has jumped to Jacksonville, Fla., where he is teaching at Jacksonville Junior College on Riverside Ave. Arba Irvin asked about getting out a new class address list. Before the ink would be dry, most everyone would have moved. My present list is all crossouts and add-ins.

Arthur Ruggles is chairmanning so many psychiatric associations that he seems to be busier than when running the Butler Hospital. It seems I was a bit premature when I mentioned retirement in my October notes. I remember a surprised look Joe Holmes gave me when I spoke to him on the subject. We all should know the span of life is increasing and perhaps we will have to re-edit the Bible where it says "the days of our life span shall be three score years and ten." Perchance we should labor up to four score. Seventy seems to be the rim of life to many of 1902.

I must correct an error (which surely could not have been mine). My October notes stated that our youngest classmates Hugh Sanborn and Kenneth Morse were born in 1903. That was the year they were reborn, after 4 years with us in Dartmouth. They actually (to use a stock but physiologically erroneous phrase) "first saw the light of day" in 1883.

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