1894

Class Agent, 9 Felton St., Hudson, Mass.

Other gardeners will be interested in what Paul Jenks wrote about his backyard:

"Our back yard is either a disgrace or a pleasure, according to the point of view. Until I retired, it was kept very reasonably clear, planted in straight 50-foot rows, decently weeded (by boys, in the summer). Now it looks like anybody's back yard, with parts of it reasonably open, where Elizabeth putters with a few heads of lettuce, a few tomato plants, three hills of squash, at al., a lot of kinds of flowers, the small remains of a strawberry bed, etc., etc. We have a small fig tree, a young oak, one fence over-run with roses; and in particular a profusion of raspberry bushes, the first berry just turning, estimated yield a hundred boxes; and one space, about 30' x 50', all 'dug up' and partly planted to corn (of which my family eats more than I supposed two women could), carefully calculated to produce continuously from September 1 to November 1, if the frost doesn't kill it about October 15.

"Of the original plot that I bought, the rear 20' x 60' is all shaded by three apple trees, one Japanese maple and a 60' silver bell tree, under which we have a big laurel bush, columbines, roses, iris, etc. In front of the house we have just an open lawn, 40' x 60', with barberries banked up against the house—All a great mess, but very pleasant to inhabit—One Pietro Promutico and sons care for the lawn, a good Italian family! Get the picture?"

Other teachers will be interested to note what one of Billy Wallis' pupils said about him in a letter to Paul Jenks (Bob Lyon, '07):

"As you have gathered, I met him as a student (Eastern High School, Washington, where he taught me Algebra and Trig). As I recall now, he was the one and only teacher in my whole school life with whom I very friendly. I used to look upon my teachers with awe, but he managed to break down the reserve and we became real good friends even then, and that friendship lasted throughout all the years. He got me to go to Dartmouth and that, of course, strengthened the tie. We corresponded regularly through my course (I entered as a sophomore). I was always a poor mixer, though I tried hard to be otherwise. I have thought he maybe suffered a little from that same weakness in his early years and that he sympathized with me in that respect. In thinking of Wallis, I am reminded of the poem which goes:

'In a changing world it's good to find That you are one of the changeless kind.' "At 80, he seemed to me the same as he was at 30; his heart was always young. I thought he would live to be very old indeed, as he was always strong and active. He told me not so long ago that he didn't have the slightest fear of death, but he dreaded the suffering that might be connected with it. I don't believe there was too much suffering. Well—we both knew his fine qualities and the fine friend he was."

Let us now turn to the distaff side of our family:

Mrs. Arthur Adams:

"Three of my grandchildren are in college. Elizabeth Adams Ross' son George is a sophomore at Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blackburg Va.; her daughter Mary Elizabeth, more often called Betsy Ross, is a sophomore at William & Mary College at Williamsburg, Va. My other daughter, Eleanor Adams Palmer's son Richard is a freshman at St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. Her daughter Betty is at a private school here in Springfield called MacDuffie's School. Because of these students, I keep interested in the education of young people."

Mrs. Carl S. Hoskins:

"Another year has passed and memories come to me of the many years Carl so looked forward and enjoyed the Matt Jones Round-Up. It certainly was a marvelous idea that Matt had and it is good to know that '94 is still keeping up the tradition. Your quotation from Dr. Tucker impressed me very much for while, of course, many fine classes have graduated from Dartmouth, it has always seemed to me that the '94 men were outstanding in loyalty to Dartmouth and in class spirit."

The main job of this columnist is, of course, to prepare this column. However, he has lately taken on one or two other pieces of knitting work, vix., as Chairman of the Commission on Interchurch Relations and Christian Unity of the Congregational Christian Churches, and Secretary of the Committee on Free Church Polity and Unity of the same body. Lest the satanic majesty might profit from his idle hands, he is also currently serving as South-worth Lecturer at Andover Newton Theological School, which involves two hours a week of class work and an hour's address, probably in April, before as many of the Congregational people of the metropolitan area as can be waylaid to come.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass. Treasurer, 60 Maple St., Somersworth, N. H.