1890

June arrived in Hanover 63 years ago, as usual, and preparations for graduating exercises went on. Sherburne and Perkins had written and committed to memory their Latin salutatory and valedictory. The Class Historian, Odist, Old Pine Orator had been chosen and were working on their masterpieces. The White Church had been newly painted and decorated inside, and we supposed that, as had been the custom for years, we would receive our diplomas there.

Then we were informed that the trustees of the Church had voted not to allow the Class of 1890 to graduate in the Church because they were afraid that we would do some harm to the renovated interior. What we could do by simply walking into the Church and out again we never learned, but the Class took immediate mediate action, and voted not to hold any Commencement exercises. There would be no oration at the Old Pine, no Wet Down, no history.

I do not know what caused the trustees to change their minds, nor where the College officials had intended to hold the exercises, but we were informed that the exercises would be held as usual in the Church. But it was too late for the other events to be prepared, so we marched into the Church, received our diplomas in the presence of very few parents and friends, and packed our trunks and quietly left town. The feeling was rather bitter for some time and the result was that for the years to come, until the classes became too large, the exercises were held as they had been for years in the old White Church.

In the March issue I wrote of Dr. Boynton who had retired and was living in Whittier, Calif. This of course referred to William Pingry Boynton and not to Dr. Perry SanbornBoynton, our Class President, who has not retired and is still practicing at 530 East 86th St., New York City. Dr. Boynton has a distinguished record in the medical field. After graduating from Dartmouth he received his M.A. in 1893 and his M.D. from the N.Y.U. Medical College in 1895. He was Demonstrator in Anatomy, N.Y.U. Medical Department, 1897-1913; Instructor, Diseases of Women, Post Graduate Hospital, 1899-1915; Assistant Visiting Surgeon, Harlem Hospital, 1907-15, Visiting Surgeon, 1915-29 (resigned), Consulting Surgeon since 1930; Consulting Surgeon, Jersey City Medical Center since 1932. He is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons, and a member of A.M.A., New York Academy of Medicine, New York State Medical Society, New York County Medical Society, MedicoSurgical Society, Medical Jurisprudence Society, and Phi Beta Kappa.

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