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LOUIS POLLENS, JR. 
 
SECOND REPORT 
 
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 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 
 
 JUNE • IS93 
 
Sentinel Printing Co. 
 Fitchburg, Mass. 
 
PREFACE 
 
 It is the misfortune of the Second Report to be shaded by the loss 
 of Louis Pollens. Few young men of his age could leave a life's history 
 which was so free from blemishes, and replete with manly positive virtues. 
 
 The college has profited the past year in many ways and we are glad 
 to know that so many improvements are now possible. A new President, 
 a greater revenue, a more extensive curriculum, the union of the academic 
 department and Chandler School, and a larger number of professors should 
 increase the power of the college. 
 
 Next year is our first re-union. Let us all bear the fact in mind. 
 Begin at once to plan to be present. Your secretary will notify you in 
 the spring as early as it is convenient, of the arrangements as far as dates 
 are concerned. 
 
 '* Dartmouth Day" at the World's Fair is August 16. Edson and 
 Burbank should be the ones to furnish fresh information. Wm. Gardiner, 
 227 So. Clinton Street, Chicago, may be able to give a few points about 
 Dartmouth re-unions on Dartmouth Day. 
 
 Thus far this year I have been unable to obtain replies from several 
 in the class. To all graduates whose reports are missing I have sent at 
 least two summons. 
 
REPORT. 
 
 West Gardner, Mass., May 4. 
 
 Fm glad to see that, with your increasing cares (family and other), 
 the prying impertinence you exhibited last year has sensibly diminished. 
 
 My address is as above. My business is still pedagogical. Pros- 
 pects are mighty poor except in the matrimonial line; if the latter were 
 not so good, the others might seem brighter. 
 
 I will try to be present at the class reunion if I'm in the United 
 States. I'm thinking some of going to the Sandwich Islands before then. 
 The most I could tell about any of my classmates would be a "pack" of 
 lies, so I guess I won't run against Burbank, who is an expert at that 
 business. Yours for the class, 
 
 C. F. ABBOTT. 
 
 [Abbott sent a pair of opera glasses to the Dakotas for Christmas : 
 first, however, he tried their powers on the Gardner high school girls. — 
 
 Sec] 
 
 Philadelphia, May 8, 1893. 
 I saw DuBois in New York the other night and he reminded me 
 that no one but a "chump" would neglect to write this letter, and I am 
 not particularly anxious to have that epithet applied to me. DuBy, by 
 the way, told me that he had "roasted" me in his letter, and whatever 
 he has written you may all take notice that he himself considers it a 
 "dead roast." In return for his compliments, I will simply say that 
 DuBy has not changed very much since I left his bed and board, last Sep- 
 tember. The sound instruction in morals that he then received has had 
 its effects. He still thinks there is but one city — New York — fit to live 
 in, one state — Vermont — fit for a summer's outing and a life's romance, 
 and but one business — electric — that is worthy of a man's whole atten- 
 tion. Though in the estimation of his New York lady acquaintances he 
 is 35 years old, yet, to a man on the "inside," he is in many respects 
 "just as young as he used to be." 
 
As for myself — to get through with the least interesting part of my 
 letter — I left the American Hook Co. last September and entered Har- 
 vard Law School, as I had wished to do for several years. To one who 
 is acquainted with the work there, not much more need be said. It is 
 not good taste to say that one gets along there without much work. We 
 work like — well, the way Colby and Tom Lord and Oilman used to work 
 — all the time. Add a little base ball during the winter and spring, and 
 the whole story of my life during the past year is told. The period from 
 May, '92, to September, following my last letter, spent as it was in the 
 wilds of western Pennsylvania, hunting country school ma'ams who were 
 shyer than newly-hatched grouse, can better be imagined than described. 
 At any rate, I will leave description of such experiences to Tommy Lord 
 and "Pa" Edson, who, I believe, are still engaged in the school book 
 business. Tommy has crossed my path several times during the year, 
 wearing the same face as ever, but with the heart of a " book man." 
 You who are teachers know what that is. 
 
 It is interesting to recall the variety of conditions under which I 
 have stumbled upon the fellows at different times and places. I have 
 seen Squash at the dance, where he is always at his best, the cynosure of 
 all the feminine eyes at Prof. Hooley's dancing school at Lynn; Tom 
 Bailey and Kid Barnard blowing in the fruits of New Hampshire politics 
 on their periodical visits to the Hub; Dave Trull and Dan Richardson in 
 Dave's den at the South End, playing pede and recalling Dartmouth 
 scenes; Pa Edson strolling up the Bowery, and "Pussy" Banfll tripping 
 down Fifth avenue; Dan Smith on C street, Washington, and John Proc- 
 tor in Sanborn's billiard parlor at Hanover; Allison at a ball game in 
 Cambridge, and Willie Wright grinding on legal problems in Rochester; 
 Sid Walker with Dr. Bowles' maid by his side, admiring Norwich scenery 
 (he didn't see me), and Chuck Woodcock watching the athletic meet in 
 Boston; "Goody" Blake occupying a seat among the Brown "rooters" 
 at Providence, and Tewky carrying on his father's business at the old 
 stand ; and Plummer at the banquet in the Tremont House, which was 
 honored by the presence of President Tucker. But perhaps no one of all 
 these mentioned has displayed such regal elegance and seemed to have so 
 much of the goods of this world, combined with pleasant anticipation of 
 the next, as did Ferda Fish, riding around the streets of West Randolph, 
 Vt., in his little dog cart, drawn by a Shetland pony, sporting all the 
 style which is becoming to one who enjoys the distinction and revenue 
 due to '91's class treasurer. Some of you may ask what I was in that 
 town for, since there were in your last annual letters some sly allusions 
 to the only other visit I ever made to the place. I went by that route 
 from Boston to New York and stopped off one train to see my old friend, 
 Tewky, who as you all know was a particularly close friend of mine at 
 Dartmouth. 
 
 It is the natural result of meeting so many of the fellows who have 
 such a variety of propensities as have Squash and Kid and DuBy, and 
 
all the rest, for that matter, that there are some very good grinds on 
 many of them. You who are mentioned take notice that you get off easy, 
 and if there are any fabrications in your letters deserving attention they 
 will get it later. 
 
 I shall be in the Harvard Law School during the coming year, and 
 want any '91 man from A — Z who comes to Boston to come out and see 
 me. Yours, 
 
 JOHN ABBOTT. 
 
 Sherbokn, Mass., May 2. 
 
 The second report finds me still engaged in my chosen profession, 
 teaching, and in my present position I have succeeded two Dartmouth 
 men — Gregory, '88, and Williams, '90. 
 
 I have enjoyed my work here very much. The school is small, but 
 pleasant, and as I am given one assistant I have been able to choose my 
 work. If nothing more lucrative presents itself, another year will doubt- 
 less find me here. 
 
 Being near Boston, the common center for all Dartmouth men, I 
 have occasionally met classmates, among them Plummer, who has evi- 
 dently succeeded in making his father believe that he is working very 
 hard. " Abit" I met on the ball field at Harvard, where he is doing 
 credit to the reputation of old Dartmouth. 
 
 I want to enter a protest against one thing: Our secretary, who was 
 wont to be scratch man in all college races, has altogether too large a 
 handicap in the cup race. Tewky seems to be the only man who has any 
 chance against him. 
 
 Yes, I do receive a small salary, but I am not yet of much impor- 
 tance in the stock exchange. 
 
 Last summer I became for the time a photographic crank, and living 
 in a town which is quite a popular summer resort, succeeded in making 
 it a profitable business as well as a very pleasant one. 
 
 If I should tell you all the lies and rumors in regard to my matri- 
 monial prospects, you would doubtless find it very interesting, owing to 
 the fact that my predecessor, Williams, '90, married while teaching here, 
 but the actual facts are that I have no matrimonial prospects at all. 
 
 As for my social position, any of you who have tried teaching a 
 high school in a small country town, know that it must be all I deserve. 
 I have no reason to complain in that respect. 
 
 I shall certainly be at the reunion in Hanover, next year, where I 
 hope to meet you all with your wives and babies. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 J. FRANCIS ALLISON, 
 Prin. Sawin Academy and Dowse High School. 
 
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 Nashua, N. H., June 9. 
 
 Have seen but very few of the fellows, so have no "grinds" or in- 
 formation in regard to their moral or spiritual welfare to send you. As 
 for myself, have kept rather quiet but very busy during the last year. 
 
 I find, as of old, that my constitution requires frequent changes of 
 air and climate, so find it necessary to take frequent trips to Boston and 
 New York. I am still unmarried, thank heavens! My politics are still 
 " Democratic with Mugwumpian tendencies," and in this line I have 
 had fair success. Being sent one time last fall as a delegate to the 
 national convention of Democratic clubs, held in New York, I had the 
 great honor of being appointed one of the officers and seated on the stage 
 with G. Cleveland, Esq. 
 
 Awaiting your yearly report, I am 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 W. T. BAILEY. 
 
 It was a great pleasure to receive the report of the doings of '91, 
 last June, and I am glad that we are to have another of the same sort. 
 
 Contrary to my expectations I am not at the General Theological 
 Seminary this year. Your letter finds me at All Saints House, the home 
 of the only distinctively monastic lay order in the Anglican branch of the 
 Catholic church in this country. The order is called the Brothers of 
 Nazareth. In giving you a description of the place and order, I can do 
 no better than to quote from an article which appeared in the New York 
 Times of last January: "The writer has visited the famous Hospice of 
 St. Bernard, in Switzerland, and the similarity of the life of that religious 
 order with that of the Brothers of Nazareth at once suggests itself. 
 Moreover, in natural surroundings, as in religious routine, the mountain 
 hospital of the famous monk is that of the Dutchess county home of the 
 Brothers, only intensified. The practical as well as the religious signifi- 
 cance of the older monastery is renewed in the younger. It was the 
 snow-bound, wearied traveler who was nourished and cared for at the top 
 of the great St. Bernard Alp, and it is the sick, the poor and the ailing 
 who are ministered to at the doors of the Brothers of Nazareth. In both 
 the ancient and the nineteenth century monastery the spirit of that good 
 thing which came out of Nazareth rested and rests upon the members of 
 the family, and is extended in hospitable welcome to the stranger within the 
 gates. The little chapel in the house is really very tasteful, beautiful, 
 without being extravagant. The canonical offices of the day are said by 
 the Brothers every three hours. A priest often visits the home for spirit- 
 ual ministrations." The founder of the order, Brother Gilbert, is an old 
 friend of mine. I thought it good to continue my training for the priest- 
 hood by coming here and entering, so far as I could, upon the life led by 
 the Brothers, and continuing my theological studies at the same time. A 
 good share of every day is devoted to work, the rest being employed in 
 
study, reading and writing. Besides making considerable progress in 
 study, I have read more good books than during my four years in college. 
 There are no distractions here; all is order and quiet. My little cell, a 
 room about eight feet square, is very conducive to study. It contains a 
 small iron bed, a commode, a table, a chair, and my books. There are 
 no pictures or decorations of any sort, except over the table is a large 
 crucifix. One small window furnishes all the light. It is quite a change 
 from my surroundings of last year, but it is a good one in many ways. I 
 shall go from here with regret sometime this month. After a visit to 
 New York and Newark, I go to Bellows Falls, Vermont, for a few weeks. 
 A letter directed to me there at any time will be sure to reach me. My 
 address after June 1 5 will be Forest Hills House, Franconia, White 
 Mountains, N. H. I have it in mind, as a possibility, to continue my 
 studies next year at Hanover, under the direction of Mr. Huntington, 
 but have not yet decided this matter. If I do I shall be on hand for the 
 reunion, and if not I shall do my best to be there for that important and 
 pleasant event. Being in Bellows Falls, last June, I went to Hanover 
 for the commencement ball. It was a great pleasure to see a few '91 
 men about. I had to make myself known to everybody because I had 
 shaved my moustache. 
 
 Later in the summer I was again in Hanover for several days. I 
 went to take services at St. Thomas church, and the good people of " the 
 dear old place" gave me a most cordial welcome. I had the pleasure of 
 taking tea with our dear departed classmate, Louis Pollens, and of hear- 
 ing from him of his life in Europe. I little thought that I should so 
 soon be obliged to pen lines of sympathy to his parents because of his 
 death. 
 
 In a conversation with a lady during my visit, I was taken to task 
 for the class because none of us had married. The person thought we 
 had very poor taste in not displaying our fondness for the fair sex to bet- 
 ter advantage. I replied that we were so fond of all the ladies that it 
 was very hard for any of us to single out one only to adore. I really 
 think this is the case with myself, for I am no nearer now to matrimony 
 than ever, and you know from this how far away I must be. 
 
 With kindest regards to all the class, I remain as ever, 
 Most sincerely yours, 
 
 FRANCIS MILTON BANFIL. 
 All Saints House, Verbank, Dutchess Co., N. Y., 1 May, 1893. 
 
 Franklin, N. H., May 25, 1893. 
 
 I fear this letter is too late to appear in this year's report, but if 
 possible I should like to be reported as well and thriving and doing busi- 
 ness at the old stand in Franklin, N. H. 
 
 I am in the insurance business and studying law. Last winter I 
 
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 had a clerkship at the Legislature which was very valuable to me, espec- 
 ially as it had a liberal "per diem" attachment. This is all the politics 
 I have indulged in, and personally I am opposed to the idea of mixing 
 politics and business. I trust Sam Holton will note and heed this bit of 
 advice. I have seen no classmate lately except "Willie" Ladd, who 
 came down here with the Holderness base ball team, and a pretty tough- 
 looking set they were, with Willie as one of the most conspicuous leaders. 
 He covered himself with glory and center field way out of sight. John 
 Abbott, whom I saw during the winter, is daily degenerating by his asso- 
 ciation with the tough Harvard ball team. I have it on good authority 
 that he is leading a very fast life, and not many on the team are able to 
 keep pace with him. 
 
 I am going to cut myself short, as I am not sure this will appear in 
 print, and my time is too valuable to waste on an uncertainty. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 FRANK E. BARNARD. 
 
 86 Pearl Street, Peovidence, R. I., April 16. 
 
 It has so happened that during the past year I have not seen any of 
 the boys, but have often thought of this and that one, wondering as. to 
 his work and success. 
 
 And so death has made the first gap in our ranks. Pollens was a 
 noble fellow and his future seemed bright with promise. I shall always 
 think of him as representing the manliest and best element of our class ; 
 an element many of us failed to appreciate while in college, but whose 
 influence we are now beginning to feel. 
 
 I am still teaching in the Providence high school, and during the 
 last quarter have had the beginners in physics. My impression is that 
 the classes wonder how such a heterogeneous mass of contradictions ever 
 received the name of Science, but I have lost the note-book we compiled 
 junior fall under "Chuck," and am compelled to improvise more or less. 
 One point I have not forgotten, and that is to say that under different 
 conditions of atmosphere, temperature, etc., the experiment in question 
 might possibly come somewhere near proving the desired law ; as it is we 
 will accept what the book says and proceed to our next. 
 
 Was so fortunate as to be promoted to the place of second 
 assistant the first of February, so I now have an excellent position with 
 prospects of further advancement in time. Also find outside tutoring to 
 some extent. Though the work (teaching) has many pleasant features, I 
 do not find it congenial as a whole, and hope to see my way clear to 
 some other profession before many years. 
 
 Judging from the alumni notes, some members of the class have 
 joined the order of Benedicts since last year. To such let me extend my 
 sincerest congratulations. A modern cynic has remarked, "Marriage is 
 
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 an investment for woman ; a speculation for man." Let me give the 
 class the benefit of some advice which a worldly-wise man of thirty ad- 
 vanced to me the other day: -'Young man, don't marry till you are sure 
 you are in a profession which you will be satisfied to retain the rest of 
 your days." 
 
 It is my intention to be in Hanover at our first reunion and possibly 
 at next commencement also. 
 
 With kind regards to the class, 
 
 Truly yours, 
 
 HERBERT A. BLAKE. 
 
 Lock Box 201, Evanston, III., April 10. 
 
 I am looking forward eagerly to our second annual report. If it 
 prove as entertaining as our first one I am sure that we shall all be proud 
 of '91 and its secretary. 
 
 By the way, I suppose that I am writing to a family man. I can 
 imagine Oilman's disgust when he saw the announcement in the Dart- 
 mouth, for it was, I believe, generally understood that he thought he had 
 a cinch on the class cup. 
 
 The Dartmouth men in Chicago have been active and enthusiastic 
 during the past year, and our organization is in a very prosperous condi- 
 tion. We had a banquet and reunion in the fall, and the Lunch Club 
 has met once a month. I am the only '91 man in it, but I have main- 
 tained the honor of the class by attending every lunch. We are now all 
 acquainted, both young and old, and wherever we meet we have a thor- 
 oughly enjoyable time. There are several "recent" graduates here, in- 
 cluding '92 men, but altogether too few '91 men. 
 
 Edson needs looking after, I think. I have had one or two notes 
 from him mailed in Chicago, but I have never been able to find him. He 
 has claimed to be on the Times and the Journal and to be running a 
 ranch out on Washington Boulevard, but as the number he gives corre- 
 sponds to a vacant lot, you can draw your own conclusion. At the 
 lunch, Saturday, Secretary Gardner said that he had three addresses from 
 Edson, but could get no response from any of them. W r hether he is run- 
 ning a World's Fair "paper" hotel or working some other shady trick 
 that he learned from Oilman when they were rooming together freshman 
 year, I can't tell. 
 
 When I was East, last summer, I saw C. F. Abbott for a few mo- 
 ments, and I spent a pleasant evening with Ladd. I have seen no other 
 '91 men since graduation. The Dartmouth reunion is to be Aug. 1 6 (I 
 think) at the New Hampshire house at the Fair, and I shall try to be in 
 Chicago at that time. I hope that every '91 man in the city at that time 
 will either come and see me or make his presence known, so that I may 
 hunt him up. 
 
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 My address is as given at the beginning of this letter. I am still in 
 the Township High School, but have been doing some post-graduate work 
 at Northwestern during the year. I shall probably be here next year, 
 and expect to attend the reunion in '93. 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 EUGENE D. BURBANK. 
 
 P. S. If I were a betting man, I would be willing to wager a good 
 deal that you will have to write twice to C. M., three times to Ladd, and 
 that you will never hear from Slugger. e. d. b. 
 
 G*S 
 
 LaCrosse, Wis., June 20. 
 
 I have spent the past two years in teaching and tutoring. I hope 
 to see many of my classmates at Commencement and during the summer. 
 
 When we meet again it will be to draw tighter the bonds of 
 friendship in our common affliction. Louis Pollens has been taken from 
 us by Divine Providence. The beauty of his character would not have 
 been strengthened by a longer sojourn with us. His ideals were lofty. 
 His strong convictions and unswerving sense of duty enabled him to live 
 the truth as he saw it. The highest type of manliness he possessed ; an 
 unselfishness that gave him a dignity that was felt by all who knew him ; 
 a mind so broad that the temptations of popularity and its transitory 
 rewards could not confuse it. 
 
 Yet the loss of those who never knew him or caught a ray of his 
 heroism, or felt the inspiration of his soul — their loss is by far the greater. 
 His home life was beautiful ; it was in the honoring of his parents and in 
 the fulfilment of his duties as a son that he took the highest pride. A 
 brilliant future extended before him. A constructive Christian scholar, 
 whose honest achievement and high standard of criticism would have been 
 of signal value to the world in his chosen field of study. He had a manly 
 modesty that concealed from the majority of his college-mates his rare 
 physical endowments which would have rendered him an easy leader in 
 athletics. Moral strength was what he cultivated and a principle once 
 accepted was adhered to with all the self-sacrifice and bravery with which 
 his ancestors defended their rights and liberties. He was a perfect 
 gentleman and during the years of our friendship I never heard him give 
 utterance to an unworthy thought. His mind was pure ; he never stooped 
 to an action base or low. An untiring champion of merit, many an 
 unfortunate was aided by his sympathy. He beheld honest purpose and 
 unveiled hypocrisy as by unerring instinct. He never compromised. 
 
 In the death of Louis Pollens, Dartmouth loses a noble and patriotic 
 son and many of us a faithful, loving friend. In all our lives he lives and 
 ever will, perchance a part of all the good to be achieved. The cherished 
 
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 memory of our beloved classmate will always bless our lives and friend- 
 ships by its hallowed presence. 
 
 "Thrice blest whose lives are faithful prayers, 
 Whose loves in higher love endure." 
 
 LOUIS JOSEPH CAMPBELL. 
 
 Western Electric Co., New York, May 1. 
 
 A year has passed and yet there is very little for me to report in 
 addition to what I wrote last year ; my life and prospects are about the 
 same as then — only slightly modified by the passage of time. A tedious 
 sickness has removed from the record of my year 12 weeks, which conse- 
 quently contain no item of interest, and the balance of the time has been 
 devoted to a close application to business, with only the relaxation which 
 chance has thrown in my way. 
 
 Of classmates I have seen very few. DuBy I see constantly and I 
 roomed with him for several weeks ; only Dan and Dave can say what my 
 life was. He is aging rapidly and is already judged to be at least 35 
 years old (but don't think that this is due to my influence). Pollens 
 called at the office a day or two before he sailed and little did we think as 
 we bade him "Bon voyage" that we should so soon hear the sad news 
 which came a few weeks ago. It was fitting that mention of his death 
 should be made in your circular letter. 
 
 W. T. CARLETON. 
 
 Hanover, N. H., May 13. 
 
 I am still in Hanover and still undecided as to my work in life. I 
 have seen quite a number of the boys, including Bugbee and his wife — 
 why, to think of being married sometime in the far distant future almost 
 appalls me — Ladd, Abit, Rich, George, Hazen and others too numerous 
 to mention, as the auction bills say. I shall be around to the reunion if 
 possible. John Proctor is doing well at Holderness, though he says it is 
 a good deal of a strain to keep on his best behavior all the time. Kit 
 Carson is here, but probably his studies in the Medical college take up 
 his time so he could not write you. He taught in Lyme a while but 
 got tired of it. The college is awake and the signs point to an improve- 
 ment in affairs. 
 
 I had the very sad privilege of attending Louis Pollens' funeral. I 
 wish there could have been more '91 men there. A number of the boys 
 wrote letters of condolence to Prof, and Mrs. Pollens and I wish to assure 
 them that their thoughtfulness was greatly appreciated. 
 
 As I behold the different classes in college I am more rejoiced than 
 ever that I belonged to the dear old class of '91. 
 
 Here is good luck to all the boys. 
 
 Yours truly, WALTER D. COBB. 
 
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 Danville, N. H., May 12. 
 
 As you see, I am still here at home, at the same old place as last 
 year. Do you want to know what I am doing? Well, "working in a 
 saw-mill," as I have told some of you a hundred times or less. If any 
 of you happen this way I will prove it to you ; not, however, by actual 
 work, for that would be promising more than I would want to fulfil, as 
 you all know. 
 
 Being situated, as Tewksbury says, ten miles from everywhere, of 
 course I have not had a very good opportunity for meeting many of the 
 class, as I suppose it is very seldom that any of you get so far as that out 
 of the universe. Still, I have met during the year, Richardson, Allison 
 and Plummer, and I believe that is all. Oh no, I did find our treasurer 
 wandering about the streets of Boston, one day last fall. At first, I was 
 afraid that he might be getting a little reckless, but I kept in his com- 
 pany several hours and can answer for his conduct during that time ; 
 what he did before we met or after we parted, I know not ; however, we 
 will hope for the best. 
 
 As for the reunion next year, it is altogether too far ahead for me to 
 say or think much about it. If it is so I can attend without too much 
 inconvenience, I shall surely do so. 
 
 I know of nothing now why I shall not remain here at home another 
 year. By no means do I regard it the worst place or the poorest occupa- 
 tion I might be in. In fact, I enjoy it very well. I know it is not as 
 high-toned nor as attractive as many other positions out in the world, 
 which I expect many of you are filling, and filling worthily. But, at 
 least, it furnishes an opportunity for earning a living by good, honest 
 work ; and if one even does that I reckon it not so very bad in a world of 
 so much fraud and deception. Please do not understand that such is my 
 ideal of a life-work, for it is not. I am hoping for something better, as I 
 presume you all may be doing. 
 
 I shall look eagerly for the appearance of the report. 
 
 Sincerely yours, H. E. COLBY. 
 
 Western Electric Co., New York, April 24. 
 
 Your circular letter of the 6th inst. came duly to hand and satisfied 
 me that your conjugal responsibilities have not as yet enticed you away 
 from your less interesting official duties as class secretary. 
 
 My address and business have not changed. I am still working at 
 the foundation, which is only another way of saying I haven't yet reached 
 that part of the ladder where those who know about it say there is plenty 
 of room. As you know, I am in the commercial or financial part of this 
 business, as distinguished from the scientific or technical. I find, however, 
 that some of the principles I imbibed (heaven knows how) from the 
 physical laboratory at Hanover have been useful. 
 
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 The business is a good one, but some deluded people of my 
 acquaintance who think any one in it ought to be getting rich out of "its 
 wonderful possibilities," etc., should try it long enough to find out that it 
 is practically the same as being in any mercantile business, so far as salary 
 and advancement are concerned. 
 
 With regard to next year's reunion, my present intention is to go. 
 I might mention incidentally that I stopped in Hanover last winter a few 
 hours, but only found about a dozen who remembered me, so I concluded 
 that I was a "back number" and had better not call again until I could 
 meet some one else who dated back to the halcyon days of '91. 
 
 I have seen (1) Dan Richardson, of whom I know no evil except 
 that he is a wretched correspondent ; (2) Dave Trull, who has since been 
 sick and raised whiskers ; (I don't know which was cause and which effect 
 but presume the whiskers and sickness have some such connection ;) (3) 
 Tewky, who has not yet shown to his expectant friends the famous " bath- 
 tub, pretty girl, fireplace and little house ;" I believe that is the order of 
 his choice ; (4) John Abbott, who plays on the Harvard ball team, visits 
 West Randolph and incidentally studies law ; (5) Carleton, whom I see 
 every day ; he is a social success in polite Brooklyn society but has not 
 as yet surrendered his heart and hand to any of the beautiful maidens 
 who continually fall victims to the persuasive arts and Chesterfieldian 
 graces of this "gay Lothario;" (6) Ferda Fish, who I hear is going to 
 Chicago to convert the World's fair, this summer; (7) Louis Pollens, 
 from whom I parted just as he started for the ship on his last trip abroad. 
 I little thought that I should never see him again. His was a strongly 
 moral and Christian character. How many of us would be as well pre- 
 pared to meet the Great Reaper in such sudden fashion ? I should men- 
 tion, also, that I saw Billy Bailey at the time of the Columbian celebration 
 here last fall and had a pleasant chat with him. 
 
 I want to close with a gentle reminder to all my classmates that the 
 offices of this company are conveniently located for callers and Carleton 
 and I will be very glad to see any or all of you at any time. 
 
 Yours truly, C. G. DuBOIS. 
 
 491 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, III., May 29. 
 
 I must expect a second appeal shortly if I do not respond to your 
 circular at once. As I took up so much of your space last year, 1 will be 
 brief this time that others may be heard from. 
 
 Traveled for Ginn & Co. June, July, August and September of last 
 summer. The latter part of October I came to Chicago, where I have 
 since been located. Have done some newspaper work here but am at 
 present with the United States Express Company. Am working nights, 
 which enables me to visit the World's Fair as much as I please — an 
 opportunity which I am improving. And, by the way, I advise all the 
 boys to take in the " greatest show on earth." It is an expenditure of 
 
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 time and money well worth making. " Tewky" took in the whole show 
 in a week. " Squash," John and Sid, whom 1 met, have also visited the 
 great exposition. Have been within 12 miles of Hurbank for the past 
 seven months and have caught sight of him just once. Others whom I 
 have met since last June are Kibbey in Worcester, Trull in Boston and 
 C. M. Smith in Rutland, Vt. 
 
 As to " lies, rumors and facts " about various matters, I will forbear. 
 My letter of last year partook too much of the nature of my class history. 
 As to myself, will say that my "given" name has no more application 
 now than it ever had, nor does there seem to be any prospect of it. The 
 class secretary seems to have the lead in that direction ; but then, he was 
 always the best man of the class in a race. 
 
 My work for the coming year is yet undecided. Hoping the boys 
 who visit Chicago this summer (and of course every one does) will look 
 me up, I remain Sincerely yours, 
 
 M. O. EDSOX. 
 
 West Randolph, Vt., April 26. 
 My main business is reading and studying, etc., in a general way, 
 by myself. Hope to attend the reunion next year. 
 
 On March eighth, I attended the meeting at Montpelier, Vt., at 
 which an association was formed and a constitution adopted, of the Dart- 
 mouth Alumni of the State of Vermont. Twenty-five partook of the 
 banquet in the evening, and the after-speeches revealed a deep interest, 
 on the part of all, for the prosperity of our Ahna Mater. Conant and C. 
 A. Smith were also at the meeting. Have seen some of the class. John 
 Abbott comes up to West Randolph occasionally. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 F. P. FISH, Treasurer '91, D. C. 
 
 Windsor, Vt., June 5. 
 I have no report to make. If you think it worth while, you may 
 put in your report "George is still in Windsor and expects to remain 
 there another year," You know there is nothing of interest in a teacher's 
 career; for those who are teaching know how it is and those who are not 
 don't care. a whit. I hope arrangements will be made for a grand reunion 
 next year. Truly, 
 
 GUY GEORGE. 
 
 Andover, Mass., June 3. 
 I sympathize with your trials in getting track of the members of '91 
 and rejoice that I am able to do my part with such alacrity. Of course, 
 I waited for you to write twice for it wouldn't seem that you were really 
 in earnest unless you did. 
 
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 I have a great deal to say about myself but since that will not be 
 an interesting subject to others, I shall make it as brief as possible. I 
 have been at the seminary for the second year and am glad to say that I 
 am still a Christian — although the council I went before the other day did 
 not feel sure of it and I must see them again — and that is something for 
 a theolog to say. I have not done much solid work during the year, for 
 my health was not good. I am much better and have taken a church for 
 the coming year at Newcastle, N. H. 
 
 I have not seen many of the fellows and they will be able to tell 
 about themselves. I am expecting to be at the reunion next year. I 
 have nothing to report concerning matrimony except that I do not need 
 anything of the kind, since I am able to board myself and make my own 
 bread. 
 
 I have a new pneumatic bicycle and am more interested in that than 
 I am in theology — I mean the dogmatic kind. 
 
 I hope this will find you in a state of mind that is consonant with 
 your peculiar function and the ease with which it is performed. My 
 address will be as above for the most of the time, but for vacation it will 
 be Randolph, Vt., for five weeks, and Newcastle, N. H., for the rest. 
 
 B. S. GILMAN. 
 
 G»fcs 
 
 Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. 
 
 As I look from my window this 7th of May and see patches of snow 
 on the hillsides and the trees still destitute of foliage, I hope that our 
 secretary's letter urging us to be prompt in replying won't have the same 
 effect upon us as his effusion on spring seems to have had upon Mother 
 Nature. 
 
 Occasionally it has been my good fortune to meet a classmate during 
 the past year. Kibbey frequently passes through White River Junction 
 during vacations, but I have never been able to prevail upon him to stop 
 over a train, even, with me ; as for reasons why, etc., I trust that " Kib." 
 will speak for himself. 
 
 I expect to complete my work here in June and am thinking of 
 taking a course in Latin in some graduate school next year, probably at 
 Harvard. Further than this I haven't planned, but I expect to continue 
 teaching. I am fully convinced that it is a great profession and that 
 there is going to be plenty of room for men who know how to teach. 
 
 Hoping to be able to meet many of you in our reunion of next year, 
 I remain Yours sincerely, 
 
 TRYING A. HAZEN. 
 
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 Secretary's Office, College of Medicine and Surgery, 
 
 Minneapolis, June 5. 
 
 This year has been a rather uneventful one for me, as I have simply 
 continued in my medical studies and can now see my way clear to an 
 M. D., if I don't get led astray next year. I have enjoyed this year very 
 much, in fact, I am at last becoming attached to this western country. 
 
 I have been a sort of assistant to the dean of the medical college and 
 also librarian of the medical library, which has managed to net me 
 enough to pay all of my expenses, medical, incidental and otherwise. 
 This position I will have next year, in all probability. This spring I 
 played third base on the University of Minnesota ball team. We were 
 in a league with Michigan, Northwestern and Wisconsin, which necessi- 
 tated quite an extensive and pleasant trip. While on this trip, I tried to 
 find our genial Burbank, the mercenary Isaac ; but, unfortunately, I could 
 not, for he had gone to the World's Fair, where he is a constant attendant 
 at the " Beauty show" (so I learned). Ask the Tyrolese maiden if she 
 knows one Isaac with dark eyes and pointed beard. 
 
 I enquired around Evanston about Prof. Burbank, and every one 
 seemed to know him. They, one and all, said that he was very popular 
 with the young ladies, which did not surprise me in the least ; I under- 
 stand, however, that one of his colleagues in pedagogy, a dark-eyed 
 damsel, has the inside track to Burb's heart. Sammy Holton, now of 
 aldermanic proportions, I hear from occasionally ; he reports great con- 
 quests in Ohio. He has worked that Lebanon glance, which created 
 such a sensation in Leb., and I understand that soon there is to be a 
 " tie-up " in Springfield ; watch the matrimonial bulletins. Tom Bailey, 
 the slick youth of Nashua, has been strictly in it this winter, so I have 
 heard. He has introduced Progressive Dutch Seaside parties, with Lim- 
 burger on the side, which I understand have been a great success. John 
 Abit, he who used to fondle the Norwich gum-chewers, has at last suc- 
 cumbed to a Smith college fair one ; " DuBy," you must get John on the 
 West Randolph trail again or we are lost. This is about all that I can 
 write, for my contact with the fellows, either by letter or in person, has 
 been so limited that I could not write any more without "dallying with 
 veracity " too much ; and this, as an honest man, I never would do. 
 
 Wishing all the fellows in '91 the best of fortune, I am 
 Sincerely yours in Old Dartmouth, 
 
 A. C. HEATH. 
 620 Central Park E, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 P. S. Brace up, some of you fellows, and write me. 
 
 Springfield, O., May 11. 
 The past year has brought plenty of experience, considerable hard 
 work, a great many pleasant acquaintances and numerous good times. 
 Right here, I want to say that this state is a good place for eastern, and 
 
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 especially Dartmouth, men. The people are plain and straightforward, 
 free from any of that shabby aristocracy we find in some sections of the 
 country, and a stranger is given the heartiest of welcomes, both in busi- 
 ness and social circles. Young men are holding the most responsible 
 positions, the mayor and majority of the officials of this city, the sixth in 
 size in the state, being men under 35 years of age. Young professional 
 men seem to take a higher standing in the community than men of the 
 same age and experience enjoy in the older and more fully developed 
 eastern states. I can still agree with that grand old disciple of 
 Democracy, Horace Greeley, when he advised young men to go West. 
 
 Dartmouth, while it is not as well represented by alumni as some of 
 the larger eastern colleges, is well known and well thought of in this sec- 
 tion of the country and, thanks to the hustling manufacturers of that 
 famous remedy for that " tired feeling," etc., Paine's Celery Compound, 
 is perhaps the best advertised of any of the eastern colleges. 
 
 Pond is the only classmate I have had the pleasure of seeing during 
 the past year. He is still at Dayton, and is at his old tricks of playing 
 the dickens with the susceptible hearts of the dear creatures of his city, 
 which city, by the way, is especially noted for the beauty and style of its 
 fair sex. When he becomes a little tired of his local contests, he makes 
 a trip up here and then some girl I have spent months on educating up 
 to the idea that I am the only one worth living for, meets our handsome 
 classmate, and I am no more in it than I was at Leb. after I had made 
 that Mecca of Dartmouth men a visit in company with B. Heath. To 
 be more serious, though, Pond is really doing well and has a good posi- 
 tion in the best bank in Dayton, and is as prominent as any man of his 
 age there in business, social and religious circles. 
 
 Now for news that has reached me by letter or otherwise. 
 
 B. Heath is, I understand, a new man ; does not smoke, plugs all 
 the time, and is fast becoming as much like our worthy classmate, Fish, 
 as his devilish nature will permit. All this I learn from what he says, 
 and would not care to vouch for. The reunion will show how sincere he 
 is, and I trust that he is sincere, for often have I talked to him with tears 
 in my eyes, on the error of his ways. 
 
 In regard to that other worthy, Billy Bailey, silence is golden, for I 
 fear that he is the same fat rascal as of yore. Bailey's letters are full of 
 blue eyes, golden hair, probably bleached if the truth were but known, 
 and little moonlight boat rides on the river, each time with a new victim, 
 and the assurance that at last he has met the future Mrs. Bailey. How- 
 ever, as he is under the restraining hand of that most excellent gentleman, 
 William Bailey, Sr., there is hope that he will do nothing rash until he 
 reaches the years of discretion, which time must bring, even to Wm. 
 
 Of and from the rest of the boys I have heard little, and others will 
 better give their record for the past year than myself. That it has been 
 a pure and good record I am sure, for '9 1 was composed of better material 
 than many or any of us realized. 
 
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 Concerning myself, there is little to write. I expect to leave here 
 soon and go to Indianapolis, as manager of the Universal Mercantile 
 Agency, in which I am interested as a stockholder, and am one of seven 
 directors. In the fall I expect to leave there and go to some other city, 
 probably Denver, and shall be engaged in the work of establishing new 
 offices from time to time, as the Agency grows. The nature of the work 
 done by this company is the same, or- nearly So, as Dun's and Brad- 
 street's. I have done little in a religious way the past year, except to 
 attend church regularly. Have taken a little interest in local politics, and 
 was a representative for my party on the board of elections this spring. 
 
 Socially and concerning matrimonial prospects . Physically, I 
 
 find that the climate and the water agree with me, and I weigh 160 
 pounds, measure 37 inches around the waist, have cut off the heavy 
 growth on my upper lip, and am said to be a dead ringer for Hon. Wm. 
 Nye ; and you may be able to judge of the beauty of my physical appear- 
 ance from the newspaper cuts of that much-abused gentleman. 
 
 The sad news of poor Pollens' death was to me a great shock. I 
 knew him when we both wore dresses, and from that time until gradua- 
 tion never knew a mean or dishonorable act for which he could be held 
 responsible. Every man in the class has lost a true friend and a most 
 loyal classmate. 
 
 Trusting this letter will reach you in ample time, and with the best 
 of wishes for yourself and every member of the class, I am 
 
 Yours in '91, SAM HOLTON. 
 
 P. S. When you ask me if I intend to attend the reunion, I am 
 forced to reply by that old, but expressive cross-question, " Does a duck 
 swim ? " 
 
 <afe> 
 
 Millbtjry, Mass., April 24. 
 
 I am glad you are going to give us another class record and I only 
 wish I had more to contribute to it. You will have to let my last year's 
 letter make up for both, for, if I remember rightly, it was the longest of 
 any of them. And in truth, if you, my classmates, will but change the 
 date to a year later, you can then read in that letter a nearly correct 
 account of what has happened to me since, though, to be sure, my last 
 year has been broken into a great deal by sickness and, in fact, as I write 
 I am not yet wholly recovered from a sick bed, which attack has kept me 
 a close prisoner since the last day of March. It is, or was up to last 
 November, the most unusual thing one could think of for me to be sick, 
 so I can appreciate it better as a novelty. I must close now, for it tires 
 me to write even this, and besides, I can say no more than I have. 
 
 I send greetings to all the boys of '91. 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 HERBERT S. HOPKINS, '91. 
 
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 Highland Military Academy, | 
 Worcester, Mass., April 15. j 
 
 It is with much eagerness that I look forward to the next issue of 
 our class report. It has not been my good fortune to meet many '91 men 
 during the past year and I am, consequently, in ignorance as to their 
 locations and occupations. I am about to complete my second year in 
 this school as instructor in English, elocution, French and German. 
 While the profession of a teacher is not without its annoyances, I can say 
 that I derive much satisfaction and pleasure from the contact with books, 
 which the occupation allows and demands. 
 
 It is my intention to continue for a time as I have begun, but I 
 cannot tell yet where I shall be located next year. I have met but two 
 or three classmates this year, but I shall expect to meet many of them at 
 our reunion next year. 
 
 For all " lies, rumors and facts " about my matrimonial prospects, 
 please refer to Bugbee. 
 
 I would extend a hand of welcome to those who have joined the 
 class as associate members during the year, as well as to all prospective 
 members for the coming year. 
 
 It was with much sadness that I learned of the death of Louis 
 Pollens, for by his death we lose a true and noble man. 
 
 I shall be glad to see any members of '91 who may chance to pass 
 this way. Your classmate, 
 
 H. H. KIBBEY. 
 
 HOLDERNESS SCHOOL, PLYMOUTH, N. H., May 1. 
 
 As usual, I am coming in on the sixteenth toll, it being 1 1 o'clock 
 P. M. of the last day set for our answers to be in. I warrant I am not 
 the last man, however, this time. 
 
 Facts, rumors or lies about '91 men are quite unknown to the 
 peaceful oblivion of my schoolmaster's life here. If I should write all I 
 know, it would be simply a personal biography of our esteemed classmate, 
 John Proctor — interesting, perhaps, as Sunday school literature, but no 
 material for a class report if you want something spicy. " Mr. Proctor " 
 inculcates mathematics, directs the music, is preached about in sermons as 
 a man who never smokes, and frowns upon slang in its mildest form. 
 
 The rest, for him as for me, is the routine life of a boarding school 
 master — getting up at 7 and going to bed at midnight or earlier, and on 
 duty all the time between — either presiding at meals, or teaching, or 
 nursing the sick, or pretending to be an athlete, or telling ghost stories, 
 or ferreting out some deep-laid scheme of schoolboy villainy. I find the 
 life very pleasant and expect to stick to teaching for the present, at least. 
 Our colleagues on the faculty are two of the finest fellows imaginable — 
 one from Trinity and the other a Cornell man. The rector of the school, 
 
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 who was elected only this year and is making a great success of the 
 school, does everything in his power to make it pleasant for us, 
 
 John, of course, discourses sweet music and mathematics with his 
 accustomed skill. I have developed into a baseball player, who redeems 
 my errors on the field by talking wisely of John Abbott (and C. F.) and 
 Squash and Guy George and our other athletic stars. I also set up for 
 an authority in French and chemistry and botany and kindred subjects, in 
 which I shouldn't want anybody to ask me questions too far ahead of the 
 rest of the class. 
 
 Of course we are all going to stay with " Buro." when we go out to 
 the World's Fair, aren't we ? I saw Burb. last summer, who is as 
 enthusiastic as ever over Dartmouth and '91 and Grover Cleveland and all 
 other good things. We had a great time together and I hope this will 
 remind him of his broken pledge to tear himself away from bugs and 
 butterflies and such zoological attractions and find half an hour to write 
 to me during the year. Alas, I fear me something more alluring than a 
 butterfly is receiving Burb.'s devotion. Can any of the secretary's cor- 
 respondents enlighten us on that subject? 
 
 Perhaps you see what I am leading up to, Mr. Secretary. How 
 safe you are now in gathering grinds on your unmarried classmates ! I 
 congratulate you that you can henceforth solicit and publish " lies, rumors 
 and facts " about the " matrimonial prospects " of the class without involv- 
 ing yourself. I presume there are other grounds for congratulation, but 
 I leave that to the '91 men who have taken a similar leap to your own 
 and whose congratulations will be founded on experience. Will Tewky 
 or Ferda Fish or Sammy Holton be the next one to fall by the way ? 
 
 I hope to be at the reunion and certainly shall if it is possible. 
 
 I have not been in Hanover for more than a few hours this college 
 year. I went over a few weeks ago to the funeral of Louis Pollens. It 
 was a very sad occasion. The funeral was in the chapel and the attend- 
 ance was large. Prof. Campbell made some very appropriate remarks. 
 The death must have come to all the class, as it did to me, as a great 
 surprise and shock. He was a fellow of so splendid a physique and 
 apparently so healthy, it seems hardly possible that he is the first of our 
 number to whom death has come. I knew him more intimately, proba- 
 bly, than most of the class. I never knew him to do anything mean or 
 low. He was, as The Dartmouth put it, " in moral qualities almost a 
 Puritan," and such fellows are by no means too plentiful in college life. 
 
 Send the report to Lancaster, N. H., which is my permanent 
 address. I expect to be at the World's Fair in July and hope I may see 
 some of the fellows. We ought to turn up at the New Hampshire build- 
 ing on the " Dartmouth Day." Let us know in the report when it is, if 
 you know. Fraternally yours in '91, 
 
 WILLIAM P. LADD. 
 
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 Mekiden, Conn., June 4. 
 
 The letter of our secretary, containing the promise of another class 
 report, finds me wondering how he can have the audacity to bring out a 
 second edition of so realistic a novel. 
 
 Information was it ? Well, I should say so ; a real encyclopedia of 
 contemporaneous history. 
 
 True to life ? Most certainly. How could it be anything else, when 
 everything we thought of, everything we thought not of, some things we 
 dreamed and some things we have since dreamed about, were printed in 
 the original ? And now we are asked to commit ourselves to writing 
 again and to revise our answers then made. Really I can't do it. It is 
 asking too much to be obliged to tell the truth about one's self two years 
 in succession. 
 
 If only our secretary would select choice extracts from each letter 
 and label them the autobiography of so-and-so, he would be showing (not 
 only) literary art, but doing a kindness to his forlorn classmates. 
 
 Well, my position in space is Meriden, Conn., and the time is 
 Sunday. You may think I live here, but I don't. I only come here 
 because it is quiet and when I have to be lonesome in order to write let- 
 ters. My work is with D. C. Heath & Co., publishers, and they give 
 me the New England states to get lost in. 
 
 Have seen a large number of the fellows and hope to see some more 
 in Hanover at Commencement. 
 
 Come around to No. 5 Somerset street, Boston, any Saturday and 
 see me. 
 
 I know considerable about myself that I wouldn't tell and what I 
 would tell, you wouldn't want to know. Am neither married, want to 
 be, or ever expect to be. With kind wishes, 
 
 I am sincerely yours, 
 
 EDWARD LORD. 
 
 Somerville, Mass., April 10. 
 Since last report, I have been putting in year No. 2 at the Harvard 
 Medical school. Going down Tremont street the other day, I saw Kid 
 (Barnard) and had a few minutes' talk. He is just running the "city" 
 of Franklin. What offices he doesn't hold, his brother does for him. 
 Between them, they are police judge, milk inspector, on the water ( ? ? ) 
 board, etc., etc. Kid went to the state legislature last year (clerk on one 
 of the committees). Allison still persists in wearing Plummer's shoes, so 
 I hear from him occasionally. At the reception of President Tucker at 
 the Dartmouth Lunch Club in March, I saw Wright, Bailey and Barton. 
 Woodcock is twirling life insurance policies on State street (last winter, 
 at least). Yours, 
 
 FRANK W. PLUMMER. 
 
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 HoLDERNESS SCHOOL, PLYMOUTH, N. H., May 10. 
 
 I have been one of the masters here through this year and have 
 engaged here for the next. My branch is mathematics. Billy Ladd is 
 here enjoying the dignity of senior master. He does great work and is 
 very severe with myself and his other subordinates. Carson is in the 
 medical college at Dartmouth and Slugger is teaching, private tutoring, 
 in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. I don't know about any one's matrimonial 
 prospects, although I have suspected Billy Ladd of evil designs of that 
 kind. Have no ambition in that direction myself. 
 
 Hope that '91 is prospering and that I shall have the pleasure of 
 seeing some of it next commencement. 
 
 Fraternally yours, 
 
 J. H. PROCTOR. 
 
 Fitchburg, Mass., June 30. 
 
 Since the last report was issued I have joined the increasing throng 
 of married men. Consequently many expect a disquisition on the 
 subject, Marriage a Failure. But I have none to offer. I would, how- 
 ever, advise those who can afford to to marry. 
 
 My position in the Fitchburg schools has been the same and next 
 year I have an increased salary. I tried bicycling last summer and went 
 through the wilds of Vermont and New Hampshire. During my travels, 
 1 called on Oilman, who was busy exterminating potato bugs with a mix- 
 ture of Paris green and theological arguments. He borrowed my bicycle 
 and tore his pants. I met Hazen posting Vermont trees with superb lies 
 about the annual cattleshow of that state. He was living in hopes that 
 in the dim future he would be able to obtain a free pass to that Mecca of 
 Dartmouth students, Boston. I enjoyed Tewky's hospitality for several 
 days. In many ways Ned is as of yore ; he was a strong Republican 
 and had a 3x2 flag in front of his house, but I have heard that the returns 
 of the elections almost prostrated him. In addition to those mentioned 
 above, I have seen Guy George, Barnard, Lord, Abbott and Richardson. 
 
 Since January I have served as superintendent of the Rollstone 
 Congregational Sunday school. I put in this last statement as it seems 
 proper to counterbalance Fish's extravagant career by my own improved 
 moral character. 
 
 I hope to be able to be at the reunion next year. Shall be if 
 possible. Yours truly, 
 
 F. E. ROWE. 
 
 Chester, Vt., April 16. 
 Your squib would arouse any scandal-monger, but as I am still 
 rushing toward a legal goal I will steer clear of any slander suits and not 
 lie as Wattie and Willie Wright used to together. 
 
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 As for myself, I resigned my political snap on the Lawrence Board 
 of Health (before I got kicked out by the other party) to accept a substi- 
 tuting position as teacher in the Lawrence high school, and only three 
 things hindered me from having a permanent position, viz : I knew too 
 little of German (Zwei bier only), too much about the girls, but enough 
 to keep away from such a position. Whereupon the unkindly goddess 
 hustled me off to the wilds of Vermont to take charge of a high school, 
 but, alas, bad luck followed me here. I found upon arriving that there 
 were two school committees, each claiming to run the school and each 
 running a separate school. Nothing loath, I and my assistant proceeded 
 to teach our fifteen scholars and the other teachers their fifteen, and fifteen 
 undecided sat outside on the fence. First round closed with honors easy, 
 but we have the strength and staying powers to win in the end. I don't 
 know where I will be next. If Slugger and Wattie don't get married, I 
 think we will all go to Brazil. 
 
 Yours, SKINBONE. 
 
 West Rutland, Vt., May 2. 
 
 The past year has been very much like the year before it with me. 
 A good part of the summer was spent in Washington on account of the 
 long session. I was at home during the fall and went back to Washing- 
 ton in November. The winter there was full of interest, but not alto- 
 gether pleasant for good Republicans. Dan did great work, as usual, 
 down there and along several different lines. 
 
 We hardly thought that two years would suffice for one of our 
 number to get into the White House, but we might have suspected as 
 much of O'Brien. If Bob had stuck by our class, I have little doubt he 
 would now be in the presidency instead of next door. 
 
 I returned home the last of April, and expect to be here through the 
 coming year, with a welcome for any stray '91 man. 
 
 CHARLES MANLEY SMITH. 
 
 213 E. Capitol St., Washington, D. C, May 15. 
 During the current year I have been teaching in the business high 
 school in this city and devoting my spare time to the study of law. That 
 tells my whole story, past, present and future. My only permanent 
 address is Lebanon, N. H. 
 
 Yours, D. L. SMITH. 
 
 Winchester, N. H., May 8. 
 Your touching annual appeal for an epitome of my actions, 
 retrospective and introspective and extending from the time of your last 
 most scandalous and lamented publication down even to the present 
 moment, is now at hand. 
 
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 Knowing from bitter experience the methods by which you 
 "construct history," I propose to take "plenty of time," to avoid all 
 in median res-ishness, and to accurately, perspicuously and succinctly 
 unfold the startling panorama of my life, which like a " great, grand, 
 gothic structure " has been pregnant with events. I shall endeavor to 
 illumine it with the electric search light of an iridescent, opalescent and 
 diaphanous diction, to construct it upon the latest historical basis, to point 
 out all corollaries and antitheses, to allow no glaring anachronism, 
 anacoluthon or hysteron proterou to discompose its homogeneity, and, in 
 short, to render it the incomparable and untouchable model of the nine- 
 teenth century. However, upon maturer cogitation, I fear that so many 
 of my classmates after retiring from their sedentary and studious collegiate 
 habits may have suffered a diminution of the accretions of gray ganglia 
 in the cerebellum to that extent of being unable to comprehend or appre- 
 ciate mental pabulum of such merit, so without further ado I will 
 dismount Pegasus and " come off the perch." 
 
 I am still teaching in the Winchester high school, and find myself 
 quite in love with the vocation. The school is quite well equipped and 
 fits for college. The work is congenial and the people very hospitable. 
 My salary was increased $100 last term and I think I see another silver 
 gleam in the near future. 
 
 Not many of the Dartmouth boys pass through here, but Sabin and 
 French, '93, live here, so by means of them and The Dartmouth, I 
 manage to keep fairly well posted. I was down to the Hub last vacation 
 and was more than ever impressed with the fact that it was and is essen- 
 tially the home of Dartmouth men. I went mainly at the instance of 
 friends to look after " Dave" Trull and it was well that I did. " If I 
 had a hundred tongues and a hundred mouths and an iron voice," a la 
 ^Eneas, I couldn't begin to hint at the depths of depravity to which that 
 " Medic." has fallen. However, I am sure my visit must have been 
 beneficial and "While there's life there's hope." "Dave" treated me 
 right royally and I don't wish to appear ungrateful, but I couldn't help 
 but notice how the companionship of " DuBy " and " Rich " had told upon 
 him. I shall certainly attend the reunion next year, if nothing happens, 
 and hope to see all that possibly can come, back once more in our old 
 home. I am intending now to take a trip up near the Rangely lakes this 
 vacation, fishing and exploring, and get around to commencement exer- 
 cises also. Now if any one of my classmates is a lover of the rod and 
 wants some fine fishing about that time and will write me, I think I can 
 put him in the way of having some royal sport at no very great cost. 
 
 I think I have written all that will interest and now, with kind 
 wishes and a fraternal handshake with all, I remain 
 
 Sincerely, W. O. SMITH. 
 
 Box 218. 
 
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 West Randolph, Vt., April 27. 
 
 The past year has been a very busy and pleasant one to me. I am 
 still bookkeeper for A. W. Tewksbury & Sons, lumber manufacturers and 
 general merchants. I enjoy my work and have plenty of it. I took a 
 ten days' vacation last June and visited Williamstown, Mass., and New 
 York City. Saw DuBy and Carleton and we three had a jolly good time. 
 I was in Hanover last fall. 
 
 " John Abbott has been in town visiting his classmate, Edw. 
 Tewksbury." The above item appears in the Herald and Neivs of 
 Randolph two or three times a year. There seems to be a strong 
 attraction here for John. I am never surprised to see John walk into the 
 store with a hearty "Well, how are you, Tewky ? " and with a good hand 
 shake he is off to " the end of the avenue " and I don't see him again, 
 and I don't blame John. They say that John raves about those bright 
 eyes. 
 
 Rowe made me a flying visit on a bicycle last summer. He looked 
 as thin and lank as a bean-pole without any beans on it. 1 saw Guy 
 George last summer, on our way to the great Republican rally at Burling- 
 ton, Vt. Ferda P. Fish was Prohibition candidate for town representa- 
 tive and received thirteen votes — an unlucky number. 
 
 I am looking forward to a two weeks' trip to the Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, the 18th of May. Hope to run across some of the boys. 
 
 How sad it is that our ranks should be broken by the untimely 
 death of our beloved classmate, Louis Pollens, Jr. 
 
 I look forward with pleasure to the reunion of next year and to our 
 annual class report. Yours truly, 
 
 EDW. WINGATE TEWKSBURY. 
 
 Frederick, Md., June 6. 
 Your " reminder" has just been forwarded to me. Am traveling at 
 present, hence the delay in receiving it. Your report is, no doubt, 
 already printed. 
 
 Shall be pleased to receive the report, which will reach me if sent to 
 Windsor, Vt., P. O. Box 244. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 CHARLES B. WARREN. 
 
 Haverhill, N. H., May 15. 
 Soon after sending my letter for the report of '92, I completed the 
 course of lectures at Burlington, Vt. During the summer I remained in 
 my father's office at Haverhill, with the exception of a few weeks spent 
 in camping out in the White Mountains. October 1st, 1892, I left for 
 Baltimore, Md., for the purpose of completing my medical course. 
 
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 During the winter just past I attended the Baltimore Medical college 
 and did special work at the Johns Hopkins, where I graduated March 
 30th, 1893. 
 
 For the present I shall remain at Haverhill, N. H., but expect soon 
 to locate in Manchester, N. H., where I shall be pleased to see any of my 
 classmates after August 1 st. 
 
 Have seen very few of the boys during the year. I can hardly 
 realize that Louis Pollens has gone. He roomed quite near me while in 
 Baltimore, previous to his return to Germany. 
 
 In regard to the reunion, I can only say that it is my intention to 
 be present on that " most auspicious occasion" and I trust every one of 
 the class will endeavor to be there. 
 
 My political opinions have not changed and I rejoice in the election 
 of Cleveland. The Democracy is in to stay. 
 
 Through you, I wish to express my best wishes to every member of 
 the class. It would give me great pleasure to hear from any of them. 
 I trust that each and all are meeting with abundant success. May we all 
 be iound present at our first reunion. 
 
 GEORGE M. WATSON. 
 
 Barton, Vt., April 21. 
 
 In spite of your request to write a long letter, I must be brief for 
 the simple reason that there is not much to be said. I am still at 
 Barton, but do not intend to remain at that place another year unless 
 compelled to do so by fate. Cannot tell where I may turn up next. To 
 keep myself out of mischief through vacation time, I am reading law 
 with a local lawyer. I never was much of a lion among the ladies and 
 as ■ I grow older this becomes painfully evident, even to myself. No 
 tidings have come to this far-away northern country from any of the '91 
 men. 
 
 Perhaps it would be in order to say a word with regard to Louis 
 Pollens. He was the last man any one would have selected to be 
 numbered first on the death-roll. Of him it could truly be said that 
 no eulogy could overstate his real worth and nobility of character. 
 
 I am waiting for the next number of our class history with 
 
 considerable interest, it being my only means of knowing how the 
 
 different members are getting along. I hope that I may be situated next 
 
 year so as to know more about them and be better able to help you out. 
 
 Yours fraternally, C. H. WILLEY. 
 
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 CHANDLER SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL. 
 
 Holyoke, Mass., May 21. 
 
 As far as I am concerned the year has not brought many changes to 
 me, only that I am harder up at the present time than I was a year ago. 
 For the last few hours I have been meditating over the hardships of this 
 world and thinking howl could pay a debt of forty dollars ($40.00) with 
 fifteen cents. I suppose it can be done, but so far have not found out 
 how. 
 
 I am now at work for A. B. Tower & Co. ; as for where I will be 
 next year, I cannot tell. At present, I have charge of a large paper mill, 
 which is being built by the Riverside Paper Co. The mill will turn out 
 ten tons of finished paper a day when complete. 
 
 My prospects for the coming year are good in one respect, that is of 
 having very little money ; outside of that, I have nothing to say. I met 
 Lord (not John K.) on the street one day as I was going to dinner and, 
 as he was the first Dartmouth man I had seen for a number of months, it 
 seemed like old times to meet one of the 1 91 men again. He took dinner 
 with me but I could not persuade him to stay over night as he told me 
 he had pressing business for that afternoon. I think his business took 
 him to Northampton. 
 
 As for the reunion, I shall be in Hanover next June if I am in New 
 England. My address is No. 313 Maple street. I shall be glad to 
 receive a call from any of the '91 men that happen through this city. 
 
 R. L. DORING. 
 
 Rutland, Vt., May 4. 
 
 My address is Rutland, Vt., care of City Engineer. Am in business 
 for myself in the civil engineering line. My prospects are first-class. If 
 nothing happens, I shall be in Hanover at the reunion and probably at 
 commencement this year. 
 
 Bugbee teaches near Rutland and I have seen him once during the 
 winter; he and Richardson, '92, were judges in a prize speaking contest 
 here. Sargent and French are the only fellows I keep up a regular 
 correspondence with ; Sargent and I also keep up our weed-pulling procliv- 
 ities which we had in Hanover. I think either one of us now can easily tell 
 the difference between a pigweed and a maple, just by the looks. It's 
 our only bad habit ; I think we would be wearing wings if we could let 
 
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 weeds alone. If any of the fellows ever see a man wandering around the 
 country with a botany can or big portfolio, they may know at once it's 
 one of us. Sargent may think this is a base scandal, but he is far 
 enough off so he can't punch my head ; it's true, nevertheless. 
 
 I have been at work for the last, six months getting out a map of the 
 city and shall be more than glad when it is finished ; have got a big hump 
 on my back already from leaning over a drawing board, or did have until 
 lately, when I invested in a pneumatic tired safety bicycle ; now, I have 
 to hump all over to stay on the thing. 
 
 If any of the boys ever strike this town I hope they will go for the 
 city engineer and, if the safety has left enough of me to amount to any- 
 thing, they will receive a royal welcome. 
 
 Yours truly, W. W. EGGLESTON. 
 
 Fall River, Mass., June 10. 
 I am well, unmarried, go to church every Sunday, am working for 
 the same company that I have worked for since leaving college. Haven't 
 seen any one that I know except Sid and John Walker, who went with 
 me to Chicago and, speaking of the Fair, we had a very large time there 
 and wish we could have met some of you there, but hope to see every one 
 at Hanover in '94. Yours, 
 
 C. S. LITTLE. 
 
 No. 82 Rtjmford St., Concord, N. H., May 2. 
 My life during the last year has been uneventful. I have retained 
 the same position as instructor in the sciences in the high school here that 
 I had last year. I have met but few '91 men and have nothing of 
 interest to report concerning them. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 HERBERT E. SARGENT. 
 
 Brigham Academy, Bakersfield, Vt., April 15. 
 
 The " lengthening days" of which you speak, do remind me that it 
 is time for spring to make its appearance. The " opening buds " have 
 not yet put in their appearance in this part of the world. Snow has been 
 somewhat scarce, but I am beginning to take courage again, for it is now 
 snowing in regular Hanover style. You must excuse me for not being 
 " verbose," for that was an " optional " which I did not take when in 
 college ; teaching district school winters prevented my taking it. 
 
 My chief occupation since graduation has been instructing the youth 
 of my native state. Having disposed of all the evil tendencies in the 
 minds of the pupils at Richmond, Vt., I found it to my advantage this 
 spring to give up my position there and accept one here in the academy. 
 
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 At present I am hearing seven recitations per day : Roman history, po- 
 litical economy, physical geography, geology, commercial geography, 
 French, and business arithmetic. I have one spare period each day in 
 which I have nothing to do except sit in the large room and smile upon 
 the pupils. This is such a small, quiet town that one has to smile when- 
 ever an opportunity is offered, or else go to bed nearly every night with a 
 scowl upon his visage. I have enjoyed teaching thus far, and know of no 
 reason for not continuing in the work for the future. 
 
 My experiences during the last year have not been very numerous, 
 and perhaps are not worth mentioning. Not long since I had the pleas- 
 ure to be present at the organization of the Vermont Dartmouth Alumni 
 Association. While there I met " Dave " Conant and Ferda Fish. I 
 was told that " Tewky " desired very much to be present, but could not 
 raise the necessary funds (?). Conant appeared in his usual happy mood, 
 with but a single cloud to obscure his happiness : the long ride in the cars, 
 and the unavoidable necessity of sitting up late several nights just before 
 to get ready for the event, produced unforeseen results. Ferda Fish was 
 delighted with the entire affair. Not having been in West Randolph for 
 some time it will be impossible for me to record events which should be 
 known. 
 
 If possible I shall be at the reunion next year. " My schoolhouse " 
 is a large, brick building, in good condition. It is quite pleasant. Like 
 Old Dartmouth, the academy is booming just at present. It has an en- 
 dowment of $160,000. I do not expect to get it all this year. My 
 " political status " remains stationary ; " social position " a little above par. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 
 CARSON A. SMITH. 
 
 P. S. This academy is, I believe, the first of its kind in the United 
 States to offer special inducements and, for the time being, free scholar- 
 ships to all worthy sons and daughters of Dartmouth '91. A personal 
 examination will be required. C. A. S. 
 
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 NON-GRADUATES. 
 
 Brookfield, Vt., May 4. 
 My business for the last year has been farming and it looks now as 
 though it would be a permanent thing. I have been doing a little in the 
 way of outside business this spring, buying hard-wood lumber, and if you 
 know of any one that needs anything in my line, send him along. I have 
 seen the West Randolph boys quite often. By the way, " Tewky " is 
 the same old boy. When you see him ask him about getting lost last 
 winter, and also about wearing a " sweater" instead of a coat >to a church 
 sociable. Fish is loafing around the depot most every time I go to West 
 Randolph. I would like to meet the class in a reunion, that is if they 
 would all be there. 
 
 My matrimonial prospects are rather uncertain. 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 EGBERT H. ALLIS. 
 
 Lewiston, Me., May 23. 
 
 The published letters of the class last year reached me at Bangor. 
 You can imagine how acceptable the book was when I tell you that I 
 have not seen a member of Dartmouth '91 for about three years and a 
 half. 
 
 During the greater part of this time I have been in Maine engaged 
 in multitudinous pursuits to gain a livelihood, from cutting ice to a sea- 
 faring life, publishing a paper, managing a book store, reporting, etc. 
 However, for the last year and a half my work has been altogether in the 
 newspaper business, formerly with the Bangor Daily News and at present 
 engaged by the Lewiston Daily Sun, a rising young Democratic paper, 
 in the capacity of night editor. 
 
 As to the future, it is as usual a blank and of no particular impor- 
 tance. 
 
 I know scarcely anything about the class, only what comes through 
 the newspapers and similar sources. 
 
 A despatch was dropped onto my desk not long ago, announcing the 
 death of Louis Pollens. That was sad news, indeed. 
 
 Since old ex-President Bartlett has been laid upon the shelf Dart- 
 mouth has evidently been booming and no doubt there will be many more 
 
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 changes and improvements before the next reunion which you mention. 
 I shall make an effort to attend that. 
 
 Meanwhile, as long as I remain here, let it be understood that should 
 any classmate wander this way he must not fail to visit Lewiston. 
 
 Very truly, 
 
 J. A. COOK. 
 
 Lay College, Crescent Beach, Revere, Mass., April 17. 
 
 Your very pleasant letter found me at Revere. My happy greetings 
 to you and former •classmates. The year has brought its changes to me 
 as naturally as its seasons. Again I find myself at the college, not as 
 formerly, but completing the last term in the last year of the course pre- 
 scribed. Thus, in the quiet of my room, your letter opens. I think of 
 bygone days. I sit by my window and look out over the blue depths of 
 the Atlantic and consider what great distances separate our classmates, 
 and the life purposes of those remaining, as broad as the ocean that rolls 
 before me. But although thus separated, memory unimpaired brings 
 back to me the familiar site, while vivid imagination paints its cherished 
 scenes again. 
 
 The green area of the campus, crossed and re-crossed with its diago- 
 nal foot paths ; the old pine, that lonely sentinel of the hill, faithful 
 through cloud and sunshine to the trust he overlooks ; the graceful knoll, 
 crowned with its buildings of world-wide fame ; the primitive hall, with- 
 in whose dingy chapel the obsolete pews, still marked with class dates, 
 record its honored history ; the tower yonder, the successive work of 
 Dartmouth's sons, whose names, projected in the storm-marred granite, 
 shall outlast the ravages of time, and fit emblem of her whose children 
 shall light with brighter glow the ages yet unborn. 
 
 Once more; the trembling air 
 
 Resounds with the college yells, 
 As down over steep and through valley 
 
 The stirring war cry swells. 
 
 Once more; the midnight visions 
 
 Are checked by the horn's loud roar, 
 Till the gleams in the Orient heavens 
 
 Proclaim the darkness o'er. 
 
 Once more; the victor's lire 
 
 Lights up the gathering gloom, 
 And the shades in the Vale of Tempe 
 
 Grow bright, as with hues of noon. 
 
 But I must away with revery and attend to the contents of your 
 letter. My prospects for the coming year, judging from the present cir- 
 cumstances, look somewhat dubious. 
 
 In the absence of a field at present, I hardly know how I shall turn 
 upon completing my course. 
 
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 I am still enjoying the state of single blessedness without any pros- 
 pect of a change to that better state — the "boon" of fortunate mortals. 
 
 I am in hearty sympathy concerning " the re-union next year, " and 
 shall, with the " wind" of Providence favoring, if not " of destiny, " en- 
 deavor to meet you there. I favor your purpose to publish our letters, 
 for thereby I shall learn concerning my classmates, and therein may find 
 a medium to express my wishes, which are ever the best, to the members 
 of '91. Trusting that the" Second Report" may realize all your expecta- 
 tions, I remain 
 
 Yours truly and cordially, 
 
 WILBUR I. DADE. 
 Address : Care S. W. Burt, Rockport, Mass. 
 
 Valley Springs, S. D., May 6. 
 
 I am glad that you still recognize me as a member of '91, and I 
 shall not soon forget the pleasant year that I spent at Dartmouth. Since 
 our last year's report I have changed my address and am now located in 
 the new state of South Dakota within a few miles of Sioux Falls and in 
 one of the most prosperous parts of the state. My reason for changing 
 was because I heard of a better opening here in the West than I had in 
 New Hampshire, and am very much pleased with the outlook for the fu- 
 ture. 
 
 I am as well pleased with my profession as ever and so far have been 
 very successful in my practice. 
 
 I was glad to hear that so many of the class of '91 responded to 
 your letters and also that so many are making such strides towards the 
 top of the ladder of fame. 
 
 I should be glad to hear from any of the class of '91, and if any 
 should happen this way I will try and give them a good reception. I am 
 still single, and for anything I know at present shall remain so for some 
 time to come. Yours faithfully, 
 
 GEORGE A. DICKSON. 
 
 Denver Mills, Col., May 16. 
 The second circular letter, with its kind request to " A-N-S-W-E-R, " 
 reminds me that tempus fugit with great rapidity out here in this western 
 country. I am very glad that " the time will soon come " when I may 
 learn of the doings of the members of '91. I have seen but one of them 
 this year, and heard from but few ; and I often wonder where this or that 
 classmate may be and how he is prospering. Puffer dropped in upon me 
 one evening, and we spent most of the night in recalling the past life in 
 Hanover. " Puff" told a few stories, but nothing equal to his " 80000- 
 lb. oxen." I think married life has not worn upon him much, for he 
 was fat and didn't have a cold. 
 
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 To answer some of your questions, I would say that the past year 
 has been spent principally in Denver and that my business has been to 
 superintend the construction of paper mills, having now two large plants 
 nearing completion. I am well pleased with my business, my salary, and 
 the country, although I often wish I were a little nearer to you all and 
 could meet the old friends once in awhile. 
 
 I have read with pleasure accounts of Dartmouth's progress, and I 
 sincerely hope her good fortune will continue. With kindest regards to 
 all, I remain Yours very truly, 
 
 A. W. FRENCH. 
 Address: Care Denver Paper Mills Co., Denver, Col. 
 
 Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, ) 
 
 Pittsburg, Pa., May 25. j 
 As a member of the class of '91 C. S. D., who spent only Freshman 
 year at " Old Dartmouth," it may interest some of the members of that 
 class to know where I am. 
 
 I have been located here with the Westinghouse Electric & Manu- 
 facturing Co. for about four years, during which time I have been en- 
 gaged in shop and engineering work, and more recently in the commercial 
 end of the business. During this time I have secured much experience, 
 combined with a " by product" in the form of salary. 
 
 With best regards to yourself, and through you to the class of '91, 
 and with the hope that circumstances may enable me to be present at the 
 annual reunion before many years go by, I am, 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 E. W. S. GRAY. 
 
 Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C, May 8. 
 
 Your letter came to me today, and I am very glad to be remembered 
 even at this eleventh hour. I never want to be left out of Dartmouth '91 . 
 I shall make an especial effort to be present at the reunion next year. 
 
 By far the saddest thing that I have heard of late is the death of our 
 friend Pollens. He was a noble fellow and my recollections of him are 
 wholly pleasant. 
 
 Shortly after writing for the class history last year, I left my place 
 on the Boston Transcript to enter the service of Mr. Cleveland. I acted 
 as stenographer and secretary during the campaign, and after election con- 
 tinued in the same capacity until March 4, when I was appointed execu- 
 tive clerk to the president. 
 
 This is all I can think of to tell you about myself. Shall hope to 
 have a call from any member of the class who may be in* this city at any 
 time. Dan and C. M. Smith have been in Washington this winter, " Se- 
 cundus" and "Smith first," as in days of yore. Carlton and DuBois 
 
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 called on me in New York, and I had the pleasure of seeing them at their 
 place of business where, I am assured by those in authority, they are con- 
 sidered great successes. I was glad to hear from " Pa " Edson the other 
 day ; notwithstanding the great disparity in our ages it was a pleasure to 
 have an old friendship recalled. I never go to Massachusetts without 
 visiting Oilman at Andover. His aversion for taffy prevents my saying 
 anything about him here, even if I were otherwise inclined to do so. The 
 reason that I speak to him and of him in words of commendation is because 
 of his ability to argue me out of my premises should I talk upon other 
 subjects. I see many other members of the class from time to time, but 
 believe no more space is due me in this letter, and so will close. With 
 kind regards to all, I am 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 R. L. O'BRIEN. 
 
 Ipswich, Mass., May 8. 
 
 I hasten to comply with one of your requests and that one, " Answer 
 promptly. " Concerning the others, some of them at least I am in doubt 
 as regards my ability to answer. I enjoyed last years report exceedingly, 
 though not so much as I would had I been better acquainted with the 
 class, as were you who finished the course. My address is the same, Ips- 
 wich, Mass. Am attending Harvard Medical School. As regards my 
 prospects for the coming year, I don't allow myself to plan very far ahead. 
 I have met but two men of '91 during the past. year, Edson, who was 
 speaking about going West, and Plummer of Harvard Medical School, 
 second year, who appears to be in thriving circumstances. 
 
 I know nothing about matrimonial prospects. The other questions 
 hardly seem to apply to me and will leave them for others to answer. 
 Hoping this may prove satisfactory to you, I remain 
 Yours very sincerely, 
 
 ROSCOE D. PERLEY. 
 
 Galveston, Texas, May 16. 
 
 I am still here in Galveston and here I expect to remain for some 
 time to come, or until next June, when I go to Hanover, N. H. 
 
 I am still working for the railroad and the work is good enough for 
 me any day or time. 
 
 I want to give notice to all of '91 D. C. boys that if any of them 
 come to this city to be sure and hunt me up and enjoy themselves at my 
 home. No need to bring any six-shooters, as they are not wanted and 
 you can get along without them very well. 
 
 Last fall J organized a football team here and beat the high school 
 team in two games and tied them in the other, and now I have got the 
 boys to organize a tennis club with good results. 
 
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 Was very sorry to learn of the death of L. Pollens. 
 If you find this letter is too long, just " chop " some of this off and 
 there will be " no kicking" coming from me. 
 Hoping to get your latest, I remain 
 
 Very sincerely, 
 
 E. C. STURGIS. 
 P. S. Do you know whether Dade ever got married or not ? [Read 
 his report. — Sec.~\ 
 
 && 
 
 Rochester, N. H., June 9. 
 Address, Rochester, N. H.; business, civil engineer. Was in Calais, 
 Me., and Lenox, Mass., last summer, on sewer work, which I now am 
 on here. Saw Willie Wright this evening ; he has blossomed into a 
 young lawyer ; also saw " Pa " in Chicago a few weeks ago ; he is pros- 
 pering in the express business. Was in Hanover during the winter in the 
 Thayer school, from which I graduated this spring. 
 
 With remembrances to all the boys you may meet, I am 
 
 Truly, 
 
 JOHN WALKER. 
 
 15 State St., Boston, Mass., May 10. 
 I am at present located with the United States Life Insurance com- 
 pany and I am very pleasantly situated. The only classmate of '91 I've 
 met during the past year is John Abbott, who is doing such fine work on 
 the Harvard ball nine, and no doubt also in his studies. Please, in your 
 report, Frank, tell any and all of the boys to call on me when in Boston, 
 and they will surely receive a hearty welcome. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 FRED W. WOODCOCK. 
 
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 ODDS AND ENDS. 
 
 Burbank has secured us a room in the New Hampshire State Build- 
 ing for August 16th, Dartmouth Day. 
 
 Several graduates have failed to acknowledge the receipt of my let- 
 ters. As the letters were not returned I presume they were received. 
 Hereafter I shall not pay very much attention to those who have not been 
 mentioned in either report, as it is a waste of time. 
 
 G. P. Bryant is in the sophomore class in Columbia college. F. E. 
 Prichard is in Newbury, Vermont, teaching in the academy. William 
 Norton promised a letter for this report. His address is 20 Whalley ave- 
 nue, New Haven, Conn. 
 
 I publish a list of the graduates who have not answered : Barton, 
 Bugbee, Conant, Heald, Pond, Prichard, Richardson, Trull, Thompson, 
 Wright ; Carson, Morrill, Stanley, S. G. Walker. 
 
 Please bear in mind that it should be the business of each one of the 
 class to find out why the above did not write this year. 
 
 The letters have been fuller this year, than last, and I trust that 
 next year will be the banner year of our reports. 
 
 As my parting sentence I leave this : — Our reunion comes in June, 
 1894. F. E. ROWE, 
 
 Secretary of "91, D. C. 
 
LOUIS POLLENS, JR 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
 
 -OF- 
 
 LOUIS POLLENS, JR., D. C. '91 
 
 Our annual history must so soon come to us incomplete. A strong 
 man has been taken from among us. We mourn our great loss and sym- 
 pathize with his parents in their great sorrow. In writing this sketch of 
 Pollens' life and character for the class, we feel that we can give but 
 little that is not already known by most of us. Our life at Hanover was 
 one of close contact and he impressed his individuality upon us personally 
 and as a class as few of its members did. 
 
 Louis was born in Burlington, Vermont, September 18, 1869. His 
 life was not eventful. He went with his parents to Hanover, N. H., in 
 1877. He lived there at home, a quiet, happy boy, loving, dutiful, find- 
 ing no hardship in perfect obedience, doing whatever he had to do to the 
 best of his ability. He went through the high school and through col- 
 lege never swerving from the path of rectitude, courteous, obliging, 
 modest, without reproach. He took high rank in his work and his record 
 is one of constant improvement from first to last, showing a steadiness of 
 purpose and a grasp of the work which carried him close to the head of 
 our class and was an earnest of broad and thorough scholarship in the 
 years to come. We always recognized in him the natural student pursu- 
 ing our courses with a zeal born of high ideals and a true love of knowl- 
 edge. Although Pollens was not characteristically a leader among us in 
 college, because of his retiring temperament, he had some of the best 
 elements of leadership. He was strong in his convictions and his charac- 
 ter gave them great weight. He was unrivalled among us for courage in 
 standing by men and measures of his choice. Unpopularity in any quar- 
 ter had no terrors for him. As we recall him now, it seems to us that he 
 went through college with dignity and self-control not excelled by any 
 member of our class. 
 
 His devotion to his parents was very marked, and was another proof 
 of the nobility of his character. A trip to North Dakota in his Junior 
 
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 vacation was the cause of his longest absence from home before his depar- 
 ture for Europe in 1891. During all the months he was abroad, without 
 a single exception, he wrote twice a week to his parents, so that the 
 union between son and father and mother was scarcely interrupted. A 
 closer union than that which bound his parents' lives with his it is hardly 
 possible to conceive. 
 
 During the last eighteen months of his life he was, with the 
 exception of the summer vacation of 1892 and a brief visit last 
 Thanksgiving, absent from his home, studying successively in Geneva, 
 Paris, Baltimore and Leipzig, in which last city he passed away, after 
 three days illness, March 20th. 
 
 These eighteen months he refers to as " perhaps the happiest of his 
 life." Certainly abroad he found what was congenial to him in an 
 abundance and variety that he could not have known here. He especially 
 enjoyed the magnificent music that he was constantly able to hear. He 
 made friends everywhere and his surroundings seem to have been always 
 congenial. Of course, his great object was the mastery of the French and 
 German languages. In Geneva, through his father's influence, he was 
 introduced to the very best advantages afforded by one of the great intel- 
 lectual centers of Europe and he made rapid progress. He then went to 
 Paris and lived in the Latin quarter. Here his knowledge of French was 
 amplified and perfected and, on his return to his home in the summer of 
 '92, he had as the result of his nine months' diligent and enthusiastic 
 study a control of the language that many fail to gain in twice or thrice 
 that time. He was not able to return to Europe so early as he had 
 expected, on account of the cholera, and spent his fall, until about Thanks- 
 giving time, in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins university. 
 
 He enjoyed his life among the German people at Leipzig perhaps 
 even more than that of the previous year. The German people were more 
 to his liking and possibly, as his studies advanced, he would have come to 
 enjoy the German language and literature equally with the French. It 
 was here that he kept the journal, from which an extract is given later. 
 
 In his post-graduate studies, especially that of French literature, he 
 found his true field of successful activity. He had exquisite literary taste, 
 and it was for his father a source of pride and keen pleasure to find him 
 so ready and so able to appreciate and thoroughly enjoy the work of the 
 best French writers, classical and modern. 
 
 Pollens joined the church when quite young. Never a demonstrative 
 Christian, he yet so lived that none needed ask whether he loved and 
 followed his Savior. He carried his religion with him everywhere, not to 
 flaunt his views but as a force that permeated his being and controlled 
 his conduct. 
 
 Of the very many heartfelt letters of condolence received by his 
 parents from classmates of his, from friends old and new, from even casual 
 acquaintances who had learned to respect and love him, almost every one 
 refers to his unfailing and charming courtesy, to his perfect uprightness 
 
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 and to his purity of character. These were, indeed, with his intense love 
 for parents, home and country, his marked characteristics. 
 
 Perhaps nothing that any pen could write now would give so true an 
 idea of him as the following lines found in a little book of fc ' Reflections 
 and Incidents," which reached his parents several weeks after the news of 
 his translation. They were not, it is needless to say, intended for publi- 
 cation, but he would surely, could we hear his voice now, consent to their 
 being communicated to his classmates. 
 
 FROM HIS JOURNAL : 
 
 " Being of a decidedly meditative temperament myself, I always 
 wonder what is occupying the minds of those young men whom I meet on 
 terms of intimacy as a fellow-student. What is each thinking on matters 
 of religion, that great question which has to be solved by each of us in 
 his turn ? Is the Savior proving himself to them the source of infinite 
 peace and joy that he is to me ? Are they rejecting him, or simply leav- 
 ing him entirely out of their thoughts ? 
 
 " Of course I am not the only young man who thinks earnestly on 
 these matters, hence my curiosity to know what others think. Unfortu- 
 nately, the question of immortality is the last which we are inclined to 
 touch upon in our conversations, and so each goes his own way, think- 
 ing his own thoughts and, maybe, losing the encouragement that he 
 might gain did he know that other minds are deciding, just as is his, that 
 there is a life for us beyond the grave, that there are peace and infinite 
 happiness at our very door should we but open our hearts to take 
 them in. * * * * . # 
 
 " One night at a students' Kommers in Leipzig, I was joined at table 
 by an Englishman whom I had met several times before at our Verein. 
 This can illustrate what I have been saying as to our ignorance of what 
 is in the minds of those about us. I had formed my opinion of him 
 already, and had decided that he was one of those harmless souls who go 
 through the world in a thoughtless way, heedless of the serious in life but 
 withal inoffensive. But a surprise was in store for me. As we were not 
 old acquaintances, it was quite natural that we should fall into a talk con- 
 cerning our future work. And what was he going to do ? He was going 
 into literature for a livelihood. He was a socialist ; an extreme socialist 
 and an atheist. He believed in the brotherhood of man and was going 
 to gain his strength and inspiration from himself, not going down on his 
 knees to any god. And he recited a poem which he had composed (for 
 he expected, he said, to gain success, if at all, through his poetry,) a poem 
 appealing to men to act toward one another as brothers and not rely upon 
 any god for help in their difficulties. 
 
 " After this exposition of his inward self, my feeling toward the fellow 
 was one of profound pity, and I told him as much. I prophesied for him 
 failure in his undertaking and endeavored to impress upon him the fact 
 
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 that the majority of the Church of Christ are not hypocrites, as he sup- 
 posed, but sincere and worthy of his respect rather than his censure ; that 
 the religion of the Savior is not disappearing from the earth, but steadily 
 advancing to a sure victory. 
 
 "And there I stopped. But what a revelation for a man to make ! 
 What a sad state of things ! I had discovered what lay in the depths of 
 one mind and deemed myself almost fortunate that I knew not what was 
 in the minds of the rest of our student company. 
 
 " But we Christians must be patient, sympathetic, helpful and, above 
 all, free from reproach. " 
 
 Classmates. 
 
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