1887

Morris Morse. Another letter has come from Morse. It is in reply to a letter from Gage about a proposed memorial to William Jewett Tucker. Gage's letter and Morse's reply recall an event of 27 years ago. Gage and I (Sanborn) were sitting in the waiting room of the South (R.R.) Station in Boston. We were watching the rush of crowds in and out. Gage suddenly had a "vision' . He jumped up and accosted a stranger, "Did you ever hear of Dartmouth College?" The mildmannered stranger (Morse) said, Yes, but who are you?" 35 years had passed since our graduation, and there we were, ready to revive memories of student days.

Morse was going to visit his sister in Plaistow, N. H., near Gage's home and now, after 27 years, he thanks Gage again for being so kind" to provide transportation.

Before entering Dartmouth, Morse taught school two years in his home town of Chester, N. H. (near Plaistow). He says that the second year he had "the village school." There were "60 children scattered all the wav from A-B-Cs to natural sciences". He was teaching and earning while he was preparing for college. "It it any wonder," he says, "that I was very poorly prepared to enter Dartmouth?"

Early this year ('49) Morse had a fall that broke his hip. After surgery, months of convalescence, and nursing by his daughter who lives with him, he can walk a little with canes.

With characteristic frankness he says about his college days, "I now regret that I did not give more time to my classmates My best wishes go for the good, boys I knew there.

Yes, memories of college days and classmates help all of us when we are 84.

Herbert Gage. As soon as hoary frosts came to Plaistow (N. H.) in October, he packed up, closed his summer home, and went to the sunny clime of Florida, opened his winter apartment, establishing himself with "friends" until May 1950. He is at St. Petersburg, Fla., 130 Fourth Avenue North.

F. B. S.

Secretary, Bath, N. H.

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