1890

The new year finds the five living graduates of the class of '90 looking forward hopefully, but dimly, to the future and waiting for some miracle of medical science that will bring forth a tonic that will restore strength to tottering limbs, bring new sight to failing eyesight and a general rejuvenation to the body, but while waiting we can enjoy the happy reflection of our years at Dartmouth and have visions of the Dartmouth of the future.

A Christmas card from each of the classmates assures your Secretary that they are well. Grover added a note saying that he is working in the Herbarium, chiefly on the Flora of Ohio, and meeting the requests of monographists for loans of herbarium specimens. More than a thousand such loans have just been returned - one from Paris, France. He says it is surprising how active the taxonomists are. Boynton is suffering from bad eyesight; Jerould is still active in research; Rowe is able to do some walking; and your Secretary is hibernating, and enjoying (?) the winter landscape and wishing it would rain hot water and remove the ice and snow.

Secretary and Treasurer South Acton, Mass.