1888

Austin '85 provided transportation for Judge Matthews '84, Gage '87, Lougee '88 and wife to the Lakewood Country Club in St. Petersburg on Washington's Birthday, where they attended a dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Club. Forty-seven members and guests were present and the classes from '84 to '89 were represented in sequence. L. W. Leavitt '16, Director of the International College of Beirut, Lebanon, gave an interesting talk on "The Near East."

Mrs. Burton Williams has been a visitor at St. Petersburg this winter, gaining strength after hospital experience at her home in Ayer, Mass. It is with regret that we learn she has returned North and we missed seeing her.

Your Secretary has enjoyed his visits to Fred and Jennie Dunlap during his stay in Florida. Although confined to his bed for the past two years, Fred has not lost interest in his old classmates and keeps posted through the ALUMNI MACAZINE.

Wendell and Sylvia Williams decided not to have any formal observance of their Golden Wedding Anniversary, January 30, but through relatives the news seeped out and they were well remembered with flowers and messages from their many friends. A family gathering made the day a memorable one. Belated congratulations are now extended from the Class of 'BB.

The article about Richard Hovey's student days in the February number doubtless awakened memories of those days. Hovey expressed his dislike for Quimby's Collegiate Algebra, popularly known as "Quibe," in emphatic \language, but the writer took a more practical and violent method by jumping on the book with both feet, following his successful examination. It took the covers off a very good book and destroyed its asset value for selling to the next freshman. Destruction of assets was a calamity in 1885.

Prof. Quimby, as the writer recalls him, was a large man with a full beard, who lived in a yellow brick house, now the Parkhurst Hall location. He was succeeded by Prof. Arthur Shurburne Hardy, with whom we also collided over Analytical Geometry. The Professor sentenced him to study the subject and then to come to his office and show some signs that the elipse and parabola had penetrated his brain. Strange to say, those hours at Prof. Hardy's home, now the Faculty Club, turned out to be among his choicest recollections. Before the study fireplace, the Professor, enjoying his cigarette discussed the subject matter and with his crisp and lucid explanations came the dawn of a liking for mathematics and even success in the following examination. Prof. Hardy was the only faculty member who dared to smoke in public. Perhaps his West Point training accounted for it. He would canter up to the Post Office on his horse, get his mail, then light his cigarette before mounting his horse again. The students knew there was clandestine smoking by some of their favorite professors because of suspicious odors.

Secretary, 135 Summer St., Maiden, Mass. Treasurer and Class Agent, 32 Claffin St., Milford Mass.