1908

Royal P. "Nick" Carter wrote a long letter in May to Arthur Lewis on conditions in the Philippines and other countries in the Far East. Nick's reactions and remarks on current happenings in Vietnam and about the conference in Paris make interesting reading and we intend to print sections from it in a future newsletter.

In a later letter addressed to Arthur's son Nick wrote about himself: "I am shocked and grieved by the condition of your father, he was so strong, husky and well back in '04 to '08. Last June, I became 82 but until now I have never used glasses - if I could not read any more there would be no pleasure in living, so I sincerely sympathize with your father. I am physically O.K. except lame, outdoors carry a cane as I am apt to stumble sometimes on a stone."

From Keene, N. H., Leon Woodward whose wife died on July 17 wrote the following letter: "Yes it is hard to adjust to the loss of my wife. We had been married over 61 years. Of course due to her condition it is perhaps a blessing for her but bad for me; hard to get used to the change.

"Thanks for the information about the Treadways and Larry Symmes. I am sorry that both Larry Treadway and his wife are laid up."

The Secretary received a letter from JohnHirnnan reading as follows:

"Thanks for your note and congratulations on our wedding anniversary.

"We just returned from Causapscal and found your last bulletin. It was a great shock to me to learn of Park Stickney's death. The last time I saw Park was Monday morning after the Reunion when he walked down with me from the Inn to get my car which was parked in front of Hopkins Center.

"Park was a loyal 08er and Dartmouth College alumnus and his passing is a great loss. Park and Art were two of my dearest friends."

In the last year of W.W. , this editor was stationed on a small island away out in the Pacific and picked up the following from "This Week" magazine. He clipped it out, had it framed and has carried it over his own desk ever since. As every one in our class is well over 80, he feels that it is fitting to recall it at this time.

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

Over General Mac Arthur's desk hung a message. It brings you courage and faith. Famed war correspondent Col. Frederick Palmer called on Douglas Mac Arthur at his Manila Headquarters. His most vivid memory: three frames over the General's desk. One, a portrait of Washington; one a portrait of Lincoln; one the framed message you will read in part below. The General had had it in sight ever since it had been given to him some years before by John W. Lewis. It is based on a poem written by the late Samuel Ullman of Birmingham, Ala.

Youth is not a time of life — it is a state of mind, it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the ap- petite for adventure over love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and starlight, things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing child-like appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur, and power from the earth, from man and from the Infinite, so long you are young.

When the wires are all down and all the central place of your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then you are grown old indeed and may God have mercy on your soul.

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