1894

Class Reunion - The 65th Hanover, June 12, 13, 14

The most important Sixty-fifth Reunion note is a letter from Phil Marden:

I have had a longish letter from Kent, who seems to be looking forward to our 65th and planning to come by way of Boston-Lowell with Cathlene, stopping over at my house for a night and motoring up with me next day. He will probably go back directly to New York. I suppose Clare junior will go, too, but am not certain.

As was indicated in our March column the most successful Reunion '94 ever had in point of attendance was its Twentieth when Bsmalley presented the '94 Cup to the Class of Sixty-four. A principal feature of that Reunion came off at the Class Dinner when a successful joke was perpetrated on nearly the entire Class. Bsmalley wrote it up under the heading "It Was Some Dinner." A part at least of what he wrote will be read at the Class Dinner next June.

Eddie Grover has been kind enough to share with me a letter which the beloved President of the College during our Senior year wrote to him in 1923. Here is the letter:

Dear Grover:

When your very kind letter came to me in April it found me too ill to acknowledge it in any personal way even by dictation. The winter had laid me quite low with intestinal grippe. For several months, though at home, I was altogether in the hands of two trained nurses. But I am now steadily gaining in strength and able to resume in part my limited correspondence.

Let me thank you at once for your letter. It brought your good cheer into my sick room and was very inspiriting. I assure you, as I have told in different times the men of '94, that their wholehearted support was one of the chief factors of successful transition through which the College was then passing. Living as I now do in the atmosphere of the College I can see how the sentiment of the strong Classes counts in the power of the present administration. Mr. Hopkins is a man of clear thinking and of great executive grasp, and he has the devotion of the entire College body.

I thank you again for your letter recalling so happily your undergraduate days.

Most sincerely, W. J. Tucker

This letter, apparently in Dr. Tucker's own hand, was sent to Dr. Hopkins and elicited the following comment:

No remembrance is more precious to me than to think that at times I may have been helpful to President Tucker and have contributed something to his great administration.

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 38, Mass.

Class Agent, 18 Center St., Nutley, N. J.