1906

A Boston newspaper recently carried a story under the title of — A Nickel Goes a Long Way—as toll across the generation gap. It is the story of a small boy on a tiny raft being blown toward the middle of the Charles river. An elderly man in a kayak saw him and paddled out and helped him back to the boat dock. The boy thanked the man and as he walked away the little boy gave the 85-year-old man a nickel. The man was Walter Powers, a distinguished attorney of Boston. As he looked at the nickel he wondered if it was the value the boy placed on his life or on his services. It was a case of a nickel spanning gloriously the generation gap between an 85-year-old man and a twelve-year-old boy.

Looked for a classmate at the Harvard and Yale games but did not see one.

On December 15 Francis Childs will be celebrating his birthday.

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