1887

A recurring privilege at College Commencements is for old grads to meet the boys that were in their class or in nearby classes. Four members of 'By had that privilege last JuneGage, Hadlock, Howland and Sanborn. We met and fraternized with Matthews '84, Austin, Brooks, Briggs 'B5, and Bartlett, Bard, Chase, Davis, Ferguson, Frost, Warden '89. We talked together, we ate together and confessed together. It's a refreshing experience.

The business duty for '87 at this Commencement was the election of a President 10 succeed Judge Bingham who died in '49; and to elect a Secretary-Treasurer to succeed Stanley Johnson, who has resigned after eight years of faithful service. The 11 living members of '87 were given a chance to express their choices. Answers were received from all except Brackett, who may have been away or ill. The big question was who should receive the honor of being President. Morse offered a selfmade suggestion; he wrote to me, "put the names of possible candidates in a hat; then you close your eyes tight, look the other way; pull out the name of the one who shall receive the honor of being president." (Some different from the hot contests we had at elections in '83-'87.) Luckily, we "pulled out" the name of Dan Hadlock to be our President. It was agreed that if Morse had been present he might have been "pulled out."

For Secretary-Treasurer the only willing candidate was Sanborn; and that is why he is writing these class notes.

The Alumni luncheon and reunion speeches that followed were fully equal to our usual commencements, and it seemed to me that the graduation exercises at the Bema were distinctively good. I especially valued the forthright valedictory address of Robert D. Kilmarx. He gave a candid report of the events of his class during its four years-mostly cheerful days, a few of regret. He told some of the opportunities that lie ahead as ways to show how Dartmouth has guided the class.

I would frankly say that this year's valedictory came* near the high rating of the two '87 valedictorians, Gage of the Scientific Department and Hadlock of the Academic. They sat together in the impressive Bema audience. I am sure that they must have been thinking of the high marks that they won as boys.

Secretary and Treasurer, 37 Arlington Street, Cambridge 40, Mass.

Class Agent and President, 115 Broadway, New York 6, N. Y.