1890

'90 will have its 60th reunion June 9-10-11 of next year. When the secretary has received full particulars from Mr. Cameron as to rooms at the Inn he will write each member and the widows of members so that it can be known how many may be expected to attend. It will be the last roundup. Subsequent reunions will be the mere attendance of survivors 5-10-15 years thereafter. The secretary has made it a rule to return to his alma mater at intervals of 25 years. To be consistent he plans to attend the 75th reunion, thereby taking in the 200th celebration of the founding of Dartmouth College. I am rapping on wood as I write this.

The following appeared in a Washington, D. C. paper: "Dartmouth Benefits By Reynolds Will. James Burton Reynolds, Dartmouth '90, left two-thirds of his $500,000 estate to his alma mater, it was disclosed by his lawyer, J. Spaulding Flannery. Flannery, named executor of the estate, said the remaining onethird was bequeathed to his step-granddaughter. Reynolds, a former Boston newspaperman who became assistant secretary of the treasury and served as Calvin Coolidge's campaign manager, died last year at the age of 78. The bequest to Dartmouth is for the education of students for the diplomatic service."

Of the 12 survivors of '90, 5 reside in greater Boston. Walter Rowe, Bacon, in Boston, Charles in Acton, Lester Smith in Winchester and John Canty in Melrose. When I call on Walter, at frequent intervals, he takes me up to his sanctum sanctorum on the top floor of 47 Hanover St. where famous bands of yore held forth, seats himself at the piano and is off. First it is Dartmouth music, such as"As The Backs Go Tearing By" and lactually see them going and hear the rah, rah, rahs of the college yell, and before I can recover he is playing "Chinatown" and we are in Chinatown celebrating the victory over Harvard. I am all in, but he is off again with"La Paloma" and I am back in the Tropics, listening to that, to me, the most beautiful song, sung as only Spanish speaking singers can sing it! Walter is unconscious of my presence. Thoreau's words best express what I am trying to describe, "When I hear music I fear no danger, I am invulnerable, I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest."

FACES FROM THE CHICAGO POW WOW OF 1925: The numbered gentlemen are: (1) Geiger '92, (2) Holmes '90, (3) Fassett '90, (4) Nutt '90, (5) Curtis '89, (6) Grover '90.

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