1898

Jack Spring called on Ev and Ruth Snow last April and reported that he found them in better physical shape than he had seen them for several years.

Jack Gilman reports that he is feeling fine. He took a quail-hunting trip down in southern Georgia last January and hunted every day for a week. He says he hopes we do not have another war for he would feel badly if he could not get in the army again.

On April 8 Pete Adams and Adeline left Pasadena by auto for a trip East to attend the wedding of their older son Edmund at New Canaan, Conn. Pete expected to visit Hanover and his old home town of Derry and to attend a couple of scientific meetings on his trip. He also was planning on making a call on Jack Spring in Nashua.

Berthe Leggett sailed for Europe on February 21 to visit friends and relatives. She first went to Holland, then spent six weeks in Nice, France, with her cousin. From there she was to go to Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium, which is her birthplace. She is to remain in Holland until August 5 when she will sail for home.

Our Class Poet has been at it again and with his check for the Alumni Fund he sent along the following:

Dear Jack: I got your letter relating to the fund With mention of some classmates gone before; I expected something different, was for the moment stunned, Where is that poetic talent used of Yore? The last time that you wrote a verse, a rare and able line And sent it out to members of the Class, The College took high note of it, considered it quite fine And preserved it for the future under glass. You shouldn't hide your talents. If you can rhyme, just rhyme And clothe your thoughts with grandeur and with beauty Your classmates all expect from you a message great, sublime And Dartmouth looks to you to do your duty. The years can take no toll of you, you lucky, lucky man; Just tune your happy lyre and sweetly sing, 'Gainst summer's heat and winter's chill, for you there is a ban, For you forever will be Spring. Well, Jack, I'll follow your advice, be glad that I am here, Though year by year I get it in the neck. Perhaps you need encouragement, a Word of kindly cheer, So here it is my name signed on the check. Charles W. Littlefield. P.S. I hope the Class will bear in mind the task you have to do And spare you all unnecessary toil. A second letter, when and if it is prepared by you, Would require an awful waste of midnight oil.

Harrison Nichols wrote your secretary that on March 16 he had a slight shock and his right arm and hand were paralyzed. His friend Dwight Edson '18 succeeded in getting him in the Adair Nurses Home. During the two months he has been there he has had his arm and hand in hot water and with day and night massages he has succeeded in getting the circulation back in his hand and he can move the fingers a little. On April 24, his 76th birthday, seven members of the Dartmouth Club of Houston called on him at the Home and among other gifts presented him with a Dartmouth house robe with the Dartmouth seal on the pocket. He said that he loved it. "Our club in Houston has 62 members and every one is a real Dartmouth man. I know of no greater praise I could bestow on them." We all hope that Harry will soon be restored to full use of his arm and hand.

Secretary and Treasurer, 14 Sayward St., Dorchester 25, Mass. Class Agent, 86 Main St., Nashua, N. H.