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 Report 
 
 DARTMOUTH 
 
 December 
 
 1915 
 
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 THINGS NINETY-NINE 
 
 No thing is mediocre. Some things only 
 look more important than others 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 W. C. KENDALL J. L. BARNEY G. G. CLARK, Secretary 
 
 THE DARTMOUTH PRESS, F. A. M U S G RO V E, '99, PROPRIETOR 
 DECEMBER, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN 
 
THINGS NINETY- NINE 
 
 ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED 
 
 Addresses and Alson Morgan Abbott, Stock Broker, O. J. Brand & 
 Phone Numbers Co., 74 Broadway, New York. Res. 1 Myrtle Ave., 
 Up-to-Date Plainfield, N. J. Bus. Rector 750; res. W. Plain- 
 
 field 307. 
 * Arthur Jackson Abbott, Painter and Decorator, 50-56 Manchester 
 St., Manchester, N. H. Res. 88 Chestnut St. Bus. 325; res. 1112M. 
 
 Ernest Albert Abbott, Real Estate, Melones & Abbott, 202 Rowell 
 Bldg., Fresno, Cal. Bus. 3180. 
 
 *Charles Ezra Adams, Bookkeeper, Guernsey Bros. Co., 16 Church 
 St., Keene, N. H. Res. 145 Court St. Bus. 452. 
 
 *Winbum Bowdoin Adams (Bowdoin 1899), Salesman, Coward Auto 
 Supply Co., 222 Eliot St., Boston. Res. 507 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, 
 Mass. Bus. Ox. 770; res. Back Bay 7091R. 
 
 *Edzuin Lawrence Allen, Chemist, The Murray Co., 224 State St., 
 Boston. Res. 16 Woodland St., Arlington, Mass. Bus. Rich. 2630. 
 
 K. Asakawa, Assistant Professor and Curator, Yale University. Res. 
 166 Mansfield St., New Haven, Conn. Univ. 7100; res. 7639. 
 
 *John Williams Ash (1900), Civil Engineer and Contractor, 611 South 
 2nd St., Corvallis, Oregon. Bus. 3181 ; res. 1302. 
 
 William Thompson Atwood, Lawyer, 60 State St., Boston. Res. 
 1 Sewall St., Melrose, Mass. Bus. Main 6559. 
 
 ^Herbert Myron Bailey, Builder. Res. 547 Riverdale St., West 
 Springfield, Mass. Bus. 352. 
 
 Edward Grout Baldzvin. Permanent address, Barton, Vt. 
 
 James Leonard Barney, Secretary Pope Lumber Co., 210 Freeport 
 St., Dorchester, Mass. Res. 9 Hollis St., East Milton, Mass. Bus. Dor. 
 2108; res. Milton 472W. 
 
 Elmer Williams Barstow, Principal, Barrows Grammar School, 
 Springfield, Mass. Res. 197 Marion St. School 5448W; res. 2154J. 
 
 Kenneth Beal, Teacher, Mechanic Arts High School, Boston, Mass. 
 Res. 32 Fern St., Auburndale, Mass. Res. Newton West 68M. 
 
 Louis Paul Benczet, Superintendent of Schools, 15th and Cass Sts., 
 La Crosse, Wis. Res. 1409 Madison St. Bus. 409; res. 975. 
 
 Henry John Berger, Editor American Stationer, 150 Nassau St., New 
 York, N. Y. Res. 561 West 152 St. Bus. Beekman 4603; res. Audubon 
 4678. 
 
Charles Walter Bonney, Physician, 1117 Spruce St., Philadelphia, 
 Pa. Res. 927 Clinton St. Bus. Walnut 620; res. Filbert 4553J. 
 
 Albert Warren Boston, Principal Caribou High School, Caribou, 
 Maine. Bus. 330-2; res. 102-5. 
 
 Arthur Hayward Brown, Manager of Northwest Branch, The Stu- 
 debaker Corporation, Chapman and Alder Sts., Portland, Oregon. Res. 
 669 Multonomah St. Bus. Main 5969; res. East 919. 
 
 Nelson Pierce Brown, Lawyer, 449 Broadway, Everett, Mass. Res. 
 186 Linden St. Bus. 8; res. 289. 
 
 *Samuel Burns, Jr., Investment Securities, Burns, Brinker & Co., 
 Omaha National Bank Bldg., Omaha, Neb. Res. 430 South 40th St. 
 Bus. Douglas 895; res. Harney 46. 
 
 *Homer Stephen Carr, Physician. Office and residence 210 Broad- 
 way, Niles, Mich. Bell 223. 
 
 Philip Worcester Carson, Real estate. Permanent address Ran- 
 dolph, N. Y. 
 
 *Frank William Cavanaugh, Lawyer, 512-513 State Mutual Bldg., 
 Worcester, Mass. Res. 43 Monadnock Rd. Bus. Park 7093 ; res. Cedar 
 298R. 
 
 Hawley Barnard Chase, Principal, Franklin Grammar School, Stam- 
 ford, Conn. Res. 213 Summer St. Res. 1586. 
 
 Theodore Woolsey Chase, President, Passumpsic Fibre Co., Pas- 
 sumpsic, Vt. Bus. St. Johnsbury 517M ; res 517J. 
 
 James Dwight Child, Secretary, Builders' Supply Co., Corvallis, Ore- 
 gon. 
 
 George Gallup Clark, Lawyer, 60 State St., Boston. Res. 71 Mt. Ver- 
 non St. Bus. Main 6559. 
 
 *Thomas Cogswell, Actor, Permanent address, Cogswell Hill Farm, 
 Gilmanton, I. W., N. H. Belmont 16-32. 
 
 *William Joseph Colbert (1900), Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Uni- 
 versity of the Philippines, Manila, Philippine Islands. Temporary, Sidis 
 Institute, Portsmouth, N. H. Port. 104. 
 
 Herbert Coe Collar, Head Cataloguer, Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, 
 N. Y. Res. 5 Days Park, Buffalo. Bus. Tupper 423; res. Tupper 4753W. 
 
 Guy Edminston Corey, Lawyer, 73 Congress St., Portsmouth, N. H. 
 Bus. 491 M; res. 1149M. 
 
 Robert Edward Croker, Bookkeeper, Rice & Hutchins, Braintree, 
 Mass. Res. 419 Broad St., East Weymouth, Mass. 
 
 ^Frederick Joseph Crolius, 1637 Broadway, N. Y., and Carnegie 
 Steel Co., Munhall, Pa. Bus. C. S. 29; res. C. S. 137. 
 
 *Charles Newton Currier, Foreman, Gray & Davis Inc., Amesbury, 
 Mass. Address, Box 57. Bus. 17; res. 245Y. 
 
 Charles Elliot Cushman, Physician, Suite 32, Auditorium Bldg., 
 Chicago, 111. Res. Illinois Athletic Club. Bus. Wabash 8328; res. Ran- 
 dolph 512. 
 
Henry Hale Dearborn, Physician, Becket, Mass. Bus. 23-4. 
 * J esse Judson Dearborn, Physician, Milford, N. H. 
 
 Maurice Woodbury Dickey, News Editor, Springfield Morning 
 Union, Springfield, Mass. Res. 224 Washington Boulevard. Bus. 3200; 
 res. 7102-1. 
 
 Charles Henry Donahue, Lawyer, 18 Tremont St., Boston. Res. 
 10 Intervale Park, Dorchester, Mass. Bus. Fort Hill 339; res. Dor. 
 3313W. 
 
 Percy Greenough Drake, Medical Inspector, Germania Life Insur- 
 ance Co., 50 Union Square, New York City. Res. 790 Riverside Drive. 
 
 Pitt Fessenden Drew, Lawyer, 53 State St., Boston. Res. 27 Grove 
 Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass. Bus. Main 546; Res. Newton North 97. 
 
 *John Henry Dubois, Insurance Agent and Coal Dealer, 1 Main St., 
 Randolph, Vt. Res. Randolph Ave. Bus. 6-23; res. 27-23. 
 
 Earl Eastman, Teacher, High School, Atlantic City, N. J. Res. 
 
 5 North Hartford Ave. School, Coast 1148; res. Coast 1891M. 
 
 Walter Roy Eastman, Chief Clerk, Pass. Dept., Central Vermont 
 Ry., St. Albans, Vt. Res. 43 Brainard St. Bus. 352W; res. 413-11. 
 
 ^William Francis Eaton, Sporting Editor, Boston Journal, Boston, 
 Mass. Res. 24 Pearl St., Medford, Mass. Bus. Main 654; Res. Med- 
 ford 177W. 
 
 George Hill Evans, Librarian, Woburn Public Library, Woburn, 
 Mass. Res. 4 Highland St. Bus. 148. 
 
 Charles Albert Folsom, Physician. Office and res. 951 Elm St., 
 Manchester, N. H. Bus. 1275W. 
 
 Daniel Ford, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, University of Minne- 
 sota. Res. 315 Fourth St., S.E., Minneapolis, Minn. Bus. East 2760; 
 res. East 2468. 
 
 Walter Andrew Foss. Permanent address, % Chas. H. Foss, Dover, 
 N. H. 
 
 Harold Oscar French, Chief Clerk, Fairbanks Scale Co., St. Johns- 
 bury, Vt. Res. 14 Summer St., St. Johnsbury, Vt. Bus. 350; res. 361-22. 
 
 Montie John Baker Fuller, Clergyman. Res. East Canaan, Conn. 
 
 Albert Leet Galusha, Manufacturer Gas Producers, A. L. Galusha 
 
 6 Co., 311 Atlantic Ave., Boston. Res. Westford, Mass. Bus. Main 1528. 
 
 Joseph William Gannon, Advertising Manager, Royal Baking Pow- 
 der Co., 135 William St., New York. Res. 405 Park St., Upper Mont- 
 clair, N. J. Bus. John 1580; res. Montclair 3104R. 
 
 Gordon Hall Gerould, Associate Professor of English, Princeton 
 University. Res. 341 Nassau St., Princeton, N. J.. Res. 520. 
 
 Albert Henry Greenwood, Consulting Engineer, Greenwood & Noerr, 
 847 Main St., Hartford, Conn. Res. 588 Broadview Terrace. Bus. 
 Charter 7018; res. Charter 1899-5. 
 
 ^Everett Vinton Hardwick, Physician. Res. 43 Algonquin St., Dor- 
 chester, Mass. Res. Dorchester 99. 
 
Joseph Henry Hartley, Insurance. 50 Broadway, Taunton, Mass. 
 Permanent address, 97 High St., Lawrence, Mass. 
 
 Ralph Wilson Hawkes, Lawyer, York Village, Me. Bus. 45W ; 
 res. 45R. 
 
 Augustine Ledru Heywood, Draftsman, American Steel & Wire Co. 
 Res. 10 Oread St., Worcester, Mass. Permanent address, Bucksport, 
 Maine. 
 
 Owen Albert Hoban, Lawyer, Garland Block, Gardner, Mass. Res. 65 
 Graham St. Bus. 560; res. 119W. 
 
 Joseph Wilson Hobbs, Teacher of English, Boston Latin School. 
 Res. 16 Glenville Ave., Allston, Mass. School, Back Bay 21752; res. 
 Brighton 1093M. 
 
 Willis Bradlee Hodgkins, Assistant Manager, Ballardvale Mills, Bal- 
 lardvale, Mass. Bus. Andover 101 ; res. Andover 164. 
 
 Arthur Warren Hopkins, Physician, West Swanzey, N. H. Bus. 
 Keene 556-11. 
 
 Neal Luther Hoskins, Physician, 644-665 Whitney Bldg., Detroit, 
 Mich. Res. 89 Selden Ave. Bus. Cherry 694; res. Grand 293. 
 
 George Laurie Huckins, Assistant Engineer, Boston & Maine R. R., 
 Room 304, North Station, Boston. Res. 651 Franklin St., Melrose Hlds., 
 Mass. Bus. Hay. 3000-240; res. Mel. 1031 W. 
 
 William Loveland Hutchinson, Farming, Cecil, Washington Co., Pa. 
 Canonsburg 422-22. 
 
 Edwin Arnold Hyatt, Physician, 5 Maiden Lane, St. Albans, Vt. 
 Res. 29 Bank St. Bus. 206. 
 
 Arthur Pearl Irving, Furniture Business, with Irving & Casson, 573 
 Boylston St., Boston. Res. 1 Warwick Place, Winchester, Mass. Bus. 
 Back Bay 8020; res. Winchester 377-4. 
 
 Robert Philbrick Johnston, Vice-president, Stratton & Co., Flour 
 Mills. Res. 23 Blodgett St., Manchester, N. H. Bus. Concord 40; res. 
 Manchester 1990. 
 
 Wesley William Jordan, Proprietor, Lane's 5 & 10c Stores Co., 
 Keith Emporium, Salt Lake City, Utah. Res. 364 East First South St. 
 Bus. Wasatch 2224; res. Wasatch 3189J. 
 
 Clarence Lovell Joy, Assistant Principal, New Hampton Literary 
 Institute, New Hampton, N. H. 
 
 Warren Cleaveland Kendall, Superintendent of Car Service, Boston 
 & Maine R. R., North Station, Boston, Mass. Res. 99 Summer Ave., 
 Reading, Mass. Bus. Hay. 3000; res. Reading 537W. 
 
 Arthur Elwin Kimball, Farming, Ontario, Oregon. 
 *Harold Bruce Kirk, Traveling Salesman, Universal Portland Ce- 
 ment Co., 208 S. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. 
 
 I'cter Henry Lane, Physician, 218 So. 16th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Res. 186 Bethlehem Pike, Chestnut Hill. Bus. Spruce 5336d ; res. Ches. 
 Hill 709. 
 
Alvin Denton Leavitt, Dentist. Office and residence, 435 Fort Wash- 
 ington Ave., New York City. Audubon 1612. 
 
 Fred Ford Locke, Assistant, Planning Department, U. S. Navy 
 Yard, Portsmouth, N. H. Res. Kittery, Maine. 
 
 Theobald Andrew Lynch, Sub-master, Bigelow Grammar School, 
 South Boston, Mass. Res. Technology Chambers, Boston, Mass. Bus. 
 So. Boston 626J; res. Back Bay 26418. 
 
 ^Herbert Leslie Lyster, Manager of Creamery, Wells River, Vt. 
 
 Leon Alonzo Martin, Superintendent of Schools, Glastonbury, Conn. 
 Bus. 68-2; res. 68-3. 
 
 Charles Oscar Miller, Jr., Secretary and Treasurer, C. O. Miller 
 Co., Dry Goods, Atlantic Square, Stamford, Conn. Res. New Canaan. 
 Bus. Stamford 71 ; res. New Canaan 28. 
 
 Herbert Adolphus Miller, Professor of Sociology, Oberlin College, 
 Oberlin, O. Res. 151 No. Professor St. Bell 321W. 
 
 Frank Abbott Musgrove, Proprietor, Dartmouth Press; Publisher, 
 Hanover Gazette. Res. Hanover, N. H. Bus. 5; res. 89M. 
 
 ^Arthur Henry Whiteley Norton, Bookkeeper, Frost National Bank, 
 San Antonio, Texas. Res. San Antonio, R.F.D. 1. Bus. Crockett 236. 
 
 Edward Lucius Nye, Insurance, Nye & Forbes, 407 Chamber of 
 Commerce Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. Res. 37 Lansdale St. Bus. Bell 
 Main 2184; res. Chase 2758J. 
 
 Luther Stevens Oakes, Partner, Winston Bros., Contractors, 301 
 Globe Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. Bus. Main 319. 
 
 Paul Moody Osgood, Chemist, North Packing & Provision Co., Box 
 5247, Boston, Mass. Res. Hotel Woodbridge, Somerville, Mass. Bus. 
 Somerville 640; res. Somerville 21144. 
 
 *William Daniel O' Sullivan (1900), Auto Accessories. Res. 340 
 Haverhill St., Lawrence, Mass. 
 
 David Woodbury Parker, Physician, 967 Elm St., Manchester, N. 
 H. Res. 52 Charles St. Bus. 1532R; res. 1532W. 
 
 *Ralph Wheelwright Payne, Proprietor Drug Store, Greenfield, Mass. 
 Bus. 825; res. 1056M. 
 
 Raymond Pearl, Biologist, in charge Maine Agricultural Experi- 
 ment Station, Orono, Maine. Bus. 104-2; res. 41-11. 
 
 George James Prescott, Buyer, U. S. Rubber Co., 1790 Broadway, 
 N. Y. Res. 419 W 114th St. Bus. Columbus 9200; res. Morningside 
 2403. 
 
 ^Herbert Wood Rice, Farming, Henniker, N. H. Res. Farmers' 
 phone. 
 
 James Parmelee Richardson, Lawyer, Scollay Bldg., 40 Court St., 
 Boston. Res. 598 Walnut St., Newtonville, Mass. Bus. Main 6406; res. 
 Newton No. 1036M. 
 
 *Charles Ingraham Risley, Representative Washburn Crosby Co., 2nd 
 & Smith Sts., Newburg, N. Y. Res. Pleasantville, N. Y. Bus. Newburg 
 1298; res. Pleasantville 219. 
 
Herbert Spencer Rogers, Commercial Representative New England 
 Tel. & Tel. for Newton, So. Needham & Wellesley, 119 Milk St., Bos- 
 ton. Res. 53 Thurston Road, Newton Upper Falls, Mass. Res. New- 
 ton So. 713. 
 
 George Munroe Rounds, 479 Second Ave., Detroit, Mich., Perma- 
 nent address, Calais, Maine. 
 
 Robert Gordon Rowe, Clerk, United States Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 
 N. H. Res. 998 South St. Bus. 690-9; res. 502W. 
 
 Frederic Rodney Sanborn, Physician, Beta Theta Pi Club, 1 Gram- 
 ercy Park, New York City. 
 
 John Leonard Sanborn, Civil Engineer, 16 Record Bldg., Pawtucket, 
 R. I. Bus. 1124. 
 
 Moses Motley Sargeant, Investment Securities, 731 County St., New 
 Bedford, Mass. 
 
 ^Horace Holmes Sears (1900), City Engineer, 7 Drew Bldg., Red- 
 wood City, Cal. Bus. 108. 
 
 Millard Freeman Sewall, Physician. Res. 195 E. Commerce St., 
 Bridgeton, N. J. Bell 54. 
 
 Ernest Leroy Silver, Principal, Plymouth Normal School, Plymouth, 
 N. H. Bus. 105-2. Res. 105-3. 
 
 Edward Raymond Skinner, Division Superintendent's Assistant, 
 American Optical Co., Southbridge, Mass. Res. 19 Marcy St. Ext. Bus. 
 90. 
 
 Alvah Guy Sleeper, Lawyer, 1045 Tremont Bldg., Boston, Mass. Res. 
 11 Park Ave., W. Somerville. Bus. Hay. 503; res. W. Somerville 524. 
 
 Samuel Justin Smith, Civil Engineer, Carlson, Chindahl & Co., Rail- 
 road Contractors, 806 Realty Bldg., Spokane, Wash. Res. 324 First 
 Ave. Bus. Main 7159; res. 6556. 
 
 *Guy Edwin Spear e (1903), Principal, High School, Littleton, N. H. 
 Bus. 127-3. 
 
 *Frank Clarence Staley, Vice-president, Bank of Fairview, Fairview, 
 Oklahoma. Bus. 3 ; res. 5. 
 
 *Adna David Storrs, Manager Book Store, Hanover, N. H. Bus. 29 W.. 
 
 Charles Chase Sturtevant, Bookkeeper, Keene National Bank, Keene, 
 N. H. Res. 112 Washington St. Bus. 371. 
 
 Frank Miller Surrey, Teacher, Morris High School, New York, 
 N. Y. Res. 593 Riverside Drive. Bus. Melrose 605; res. Audubon 3402. 
 *Howard Murray Tibbetts (1900), College Registrar, Hanover, N. 
 H. Bus. 46W; res. 99W. 
 
 Albert Ballard Tootell, Farming, Cascade, Montana. 
 
 Lucius Everett Varney, Patent Lawyer, Emery, Booth, Janney & 
 Varney, 149 Broadway, New York. Res. 44 W. 44th St. Bus. Cort- 
 landt 8677; res. Bryant 650. 
 
 *Jamcs Brackett Crcighton Walker, Lumbering, Lee, N. H. Bus. 
 Newmarket 56-22 ; res. 56-33. 
 
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Fred Austin Walker, Lawyer, Thayer, Drury & Walker, 340 Main 
 St., Worcester, Mass. Res. 54 Woodland St. Bus. Park 380; res. 
 Cedar 1178W. 
 
 Edward Beaumont Wardle, Chief Engineer, Laurentide Co., Ltd., 
 Grand Mere, P. Q., Canada. Bus. Laurentide Co. ; res. 82. 
 
 Harry Alexander Wason, Southern Sales Manager, J. A. Roebling's 
 Sons Co., Atlanta, Georgia, Box 924. Res. 70 St. Charles Ave. Bus. 
 Ivy 5480; res. Ivy 1863. 
 
 Herbert Leslie Watson, Civil Engineer, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., New 
 Haven, Conn. Res. 201 Ellsworth Ave. Bus. 70 Ext. 179; res. 7043. 
 
 Thomas Tapper Whittier, Civil Engineer, with George F. Hardy, 
 Consulting Engineers, 309 Broadway, New York. Res. 115 Schermer- 
 horn St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Bus. Worth 2435; res. Main 5388. 
 
 Arthur Dean Wiggin, Principal, High School, Simms, Montana. 
 Bus. South 21. 
 
 Harley Richard Willard, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Uni- 
 versity of Maine, Orono, Maine. 
 
 Philip Harold Winchester, Division Engineer, St. Lawrence Divi- 
 sion, N.Y.C.R.R. Res. 303 Ten Eyck St., Watertown, N. Y. Bus. 
 2100; res. 1893W. 
 
 Leon Elmer Woodman, Associate Professor of Physics, University 
 of Maine, Orono, Maine. Res. 28 Bennoch St. Bus. 14-2; res. 124-3. 
 
 Walter Carleton Woodward, Physician, 702-7 Cobb Bldg., Seattle, 
 Wash. Res. 724 17th St. North. Bus. Main 8741; res. East 2823. 
 
 Adit. Last year was the class report's fat year. This 
 
 year, by all the rules horticultural and other- 
 wise, should be a lean year. But just as the apple tree in your 
 garden never seems to have any fat years and the weatherman's 
 forecasted "trace of snow" turns out to be a howling blizzard, 
 you can never tell how a class report is going to develop. 
 
 This year's '99 report started out to be "lean," simply a 
 few things ninety-nine as the title suggests, in strict alphabetical 
 order. In September the following undiplomatic note and ques- 
 tionnaire was sent out : 
 
 We are after material for the next class report. Therefore the 
 following questions. They are many and as inclusive as the committee 
 dared. Some may seem impertinent, some trifling, some may be inap- 
 plicable to your particular case. In answering, however, those that are 
 applicable to you, kindly bear in mind that the pleasure you are to 
 obtain from the next report will be determined by the care with which 
 
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the other one hundred and twenty-six fellows answer, and their pleas- 
 ure by the care with which you answer, that a serious attitude toward 
 the questions begets worth while data, that things which may seem in- 
 consequential to yourself may appear consequential to the executive 
 committee, that silence respecting one's self instead of always being 
 modesty may be conceit, that the interest and value of a class report 
 varies with the number of men and the volume of data "cleared" through 
 it, that he who answers promptly lays up treasure for himself in the 
 hearts of the executive committee and saves his reputation and temper 
 from the onslaught of a fusilade of secretarial post cards. As a special 
 bargain counter inducement to a speedy reply, the executive committee 
 announce first that your letter in reply is not to be quoted in the com- 
 ing report, our scheme is to ask you to assume the role of reporter and 
 furnish copy out of which the executive committee may build a report, 
 and second that they would like to keep up the good record of a '99 
 report each year by publishing the coming report in December. So 
 answer the questions at once. If you need any assistance, put them in 
 your pocket when you go home tonight and get your wife to help you. 
 Think of it, a cram for a Dartmouth exam with your pipe, your wife, 
 and your own fireside to aid and the exam paper right in your hands. 
 Can you beat it? Yes, when you read the answers of all the other 
 fellows two months hence. Hasten that day. Here are the questions. 
 Now to them. 
 
 1. Are these addresses correct? 
 
 2. What are your business and residence telephone numbers? 
 
 3. Are the following vital statistics concerning your children and 
 
 family correct? 
 
 4. What business or professional changes have you made during year? 
 
 5. What have you done in your business or profession this year? 
 
 6. Has the war affected you? How? 
 
 7. What research have you been at work on or accomplished? 
 
 8. Wliat books, learned or unlearned essays or technical articles in 
 
 the magazines, or papers, speeches, talks, smoke or otherwise, 
 have you worked on, contributed, or made during year? 
 When? Where? How? 
 
 9. What travels during year, for business or pleasure have you made? 
 
 10. Did you go to either the San Diego or Frisco Fair? If so, tell 
 
 us all about it. 
 
 11. Have you been to Hanover? 
 
 12. What did you do for a vacation? 
 
 13. Did you plant a garden this summer? If so, how did it do? 
 
 14. Can you classify as Mayor, Alderman, Legislator, School or Li- 
 
 brary Trustee, Church Warden, Selectman, hog-reeve, viewer of 
 wood and water, or anything else? 
 
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15. What honors, municipal, school, church, club, academic, have you 
 
 held or received? 
 
 16. Have you acquired a summer home as yet, where, how, when ? 
 
 What are you doing to it, or it to you? 
 
 17. What make of auto or autos do you run, if any? 
 
 18. If you don't use an auto, do you keep a horse or mule for riding 
 
 or driving? If not either, then how do you get about? 
 
 19. Do you steer a motor boat, sail a yacht? If so, what, how, and 
 
 where ? 
 
 20. What other members of the class have you or your family seen 
 
 since fall 1914? Where, when, how? 
 
 21. What news, serious, tragic, comic, farcical do you know of any 
 
 member of '99? Note we do not use the word "gossip." 
 
 22. Whom have you seen, and what do you know of interest concern- 
 
 ing any members of the classes of '96, '97, '98, 1900, 1901? 
 
 23. What Dartmouth gatherings did you attend during winter? 
 
 24. Have you any diary or parts of such kept by you during college, 
 
 or letters written by you? This question is asked not for imme- 
 diate following up, but to locate matter for a historical picture 
 of our college days, for future possible use. 
 
 25. Do you remember a History of Sophomore year, similar to Ab- 
 
 bott's History of Freshman year? Who wrote it? When was it 
 read? Have you a copy? 
 
 26. What degrees other than those conferred by Dartmouth do you 
 
 possess? 
 
 27. Would you, accompanied or unaccompanied by your wife or ladies, 
 
 attend an inexpensive after-the-game supper upon the occasion 
 of the Dartmouth-Pennsylvania football game to be held in Bos- 
 ton this fall? The '99 men in Boston will be glad to put up and 
 entertain at their homes over-night any who would so attend. 
 
 The result, in part due to the note, very likely, and in 
 part due to the "times" resulted in a veritable freshet of live 
 copy. The editorial blue pencil probably ought to have slashed 
 more than it has for our pocketbook's sake. However, the year 
 has been so unusual, producing so much of interest that we de- 
 cided that as the "tree had blossomed, so should it bear" though 
 there be nary-a-report next year. Last year 115 out of 127 
 grads and non-grads enrolled under '99 helped in building up 
 the Quindecennial Report. This year the number heard from, 
 has jumped to 124, almost a perfect score, a secretary's ambi- 
 tion, a secretary's approachable but unreachable goal. 
 
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A. M. Abbott There is nothing like breaking your rules and 
 Leads off. regulations at the outset. Then you have them 
 
 broken and it doesn't hurt your conscience so 
 badly when you want to break them again. This is probably 
 why we break our New Year's Eve resolutions New Year's day. 
 At any rate we are going to break our rule, not to publish any 
 letters, at once. 
 
 The very first man on the list and the very first man to 
 send in his answers to the Questionnaire took the grip right out 
 of our good resolutions. Then the interesting letters kept com- 
 ing, showing that this was an exceptional year, when we had 
 thought it would only be ordinary. The temptation should be 
 sufficient excuse, even though the old rule that "all rules should 
 have an exception" didn't warrant the change of front. There- 
 fore we hasten to make the first exception with the first tempter, 
 "Pap" himself. He writes September 20, 1915: 
 
 Dear George: I am going to start this today, but I know perfectly 
 well that I cannot hope to finish it. The market has been boiling and 
 I have but little time for writing anything except business letters. Since 
 the market opened things with me have taken a big boost and especially 
 is this true during the past six months. The war knocked this business 
 (stocks and bonds) higher than a kyte as you know and a year ago I 
 did not know where the next pair of baby shoes were to come from. 
 Never was I so broke in my life. I slid back to the printing business 
 and made a few "iron boys" that way, but had it not been for credit 
 and friends yours truly would have been down and out for fair. How- 
 ever, that is all over and the fellow who is placed as I am and who 
 does not make his everlasting fortune out of this war should be shot 
 as a dummy. 
 
 I have had great success in building up a speculative and invest- 
 ment business ; accounts that will not only be permanent, but have been 
 extremely successful. The last six or eight months have been the 
 most satisfactory of my business career. Never has the future looked 
 brighter. There haven't been any talks, smoke or otherwise, except 
 impromptu ones in the office on finance and the general condition of 
 certain stocks. For travel, I've been only to and from my golf clul>. 
 Did not take any vacation. If things will permit though I am going to 
 Hot Springs in October for a few weeks. (Pap was there October 24th 
 to November 6th.) 
 
 Now see here, old man, that question about the gardening is some- 
 thing that touches a rather sore spot. How did you know about my 
 
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garden? I believe that you asked this question just to rub it in. As 
 long as you ask I suppose I must confess. Yes, I planted a garden and 
 it turned out to be the joke of the town. It seems that 
 a friend of mine in the seed business got a little sore because I nick- 
 named him "Seedy" and at the club and everywhere he went the name 
 stuck to him and he did not like it. Spring came and I went to him 
 for seeds of course. He gave me a wonderful assortment of beautiful 
 packages and told me just what to do with them. I took them home 
 and told my wife all about the wonderful seeds I had secured from my 
 friend. We enriched the soil and with much toil and labor planted 
 everything just as he said. I am speaking now about a flower garden. 
 Our house is on a corner and the grounds are most conspicuous. Well, 
 we waited and the seeds sprang up fine, they seemed to grow to beat 
 the band and you never saw a prouder couple than Mr. and Mrs. A. M. 
 Abbott. The neighbors came and looked and said "fine," "wonderful," 
 "how well they are growing," "where did you get the seeds," etc., etc. 
 One day one of our nosey kind of neighbors called and began to exam- 
 ine the green things shooting out of the ground. Well to make a 
 long story short the whole blasted flower garden was not a. flower 
 garden but a vegetable one. Every seed was some kind of a vegetable 
 and you should have seen the result. Our front and back lawn looked 
 like a farmer's back field and the whole town knew the joke in twenty- 
 four hours. I must say it was a good one on me and so can you won- 
 der that I am a little sore on this garden question. I have not or prob- 
 ably will not hear the last of it. 
 
 There's nothing doing along the line mayoralty and aldermanic but 
 f might qualify as "Chicken Inspector." Honors are, Business Mana- 
 ger, Plainfield Comedy Club, Director of the Park Club of Plainfield. 
 Others that will not look good in print. I rent a summer cottage every 
 year. This year I had one at Woodmont, Conn. Just at present I 
 haven't any auto but will, I hope, be able to buy a "Twin Six" this 
 winter. 
 
 With respect to '99-ers, I see "Mot" Sargeant, Hawley Chase, with 
 now and then a glimpse of Jo Gannon and Luke Varney, all in New 
 York either at the office or on the street. Last winter I saw a lot of 
 "P" and "J" Redington. "P" came on from the West to lecture and 
 made his headquarters with John here in New York and I trained 
 around with them a good deal. We had a few very fine "parties" and 
 we showed the best of the "White Lights" to "P." 
 
 It has been all work with me for the past year and I am in no 
 position to tell you much news, but I hope the above may be of interest 
 to the boys. You know that I am always glad to do what I can to 
 help along, in any way that I can. Yours, "Pap." 
 
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A. J. Abbott "Rab" reports an average business unaffected 
 
 by the war; for a vacation, a short time at the 
 Beach. Saturday, November 6, the day of the Pennsy game he 
 wrote : 
 
 "Dear George: Am seated in the office with the sun shining full 
 in my face, so jealous of all you fellows that are to see the game today 
 and what comes after that words do not express my feelings. Had 
 put off writing to Kendall with the hope that at the last minute I 
 could be with the crowd. But owing to the ill health of my father and 
 good business am obliged to stay on the job. Am with you in spirit 
 just the same. Have nothing to tell you as all I think of is work, all 
 the time. My family is well and growing so I have a great deal to 
 rejoice in. Am sending you a check for ten. If I owe more I'll try 
 and pay. Rab" 
 
 E. A. Abbott "Randolph Rab" has moved his real estate busi- 
 ness and his residence from Hollister to Fresno, 
 Cal. Notwithstanding the extreme business depression of the 
 year he has been able to keep even with the tide. He has, how- 
 ever, worked all the time. No so-called "vacation !" But some 
 of the things he has done, we should classify as vacations de 
 luxe. He reports further : 
 
 The war has had a very decided ill effect on the land business in 
 this state. Times, so-called, have been quite hard for the last year and 
 the real-estate market is always the first to feel the effect. Crops were 
 bountiful but no market and no price on account of restricted export 
 trade and lack of money. Land has dropped in price and every induce- 
 ment made to get buyers, but always the same answer, — no money. Sales 
 have fallen off with every firm and we have no way to see a change 
 for the better until the war is over. The few sales I have been able 
 to make this past year have been small, long, easy terms and few and 
 far between. My income has been more than cut in two. 
 
 My travels have been restricted entirely to motor trips in this state, 
 partly business and partly pleasure, or both combined. Not long 
 extended trips, but short ones like a trip to San Francisco for a couple 
 of days. Some wonderful mountain trips. This summer I drove from 
 here to General Grant's National Park. Wonderful scenery of the 
 Sierras and the big trees. Also a trip to North Fork in the Sierras 
 where P. G. Redington lives and presides over millions of acres of 
 timber owned by the United States. All through Sonama County from 
 hill to valley, including London's "Valley of the Moon". All through 
 
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the mountains in the south of San Benito county where the quicksilver 
 mines are located and now running full blast on account of the war. 
 Since the first of November, 1914, I have driven over 15,000 miles in 
 my Overland, and I assure you I have had some very difficult and dan- 
 gerous trips in the winter during the rains. I also have taken many trips 
 across San Francisco bay. 
 
 I have attended the San Francisco Fair quite a number of times. To 
 attempt to tell you about it would take too long and I can only say that 
 it is wonderful, both in nature of the varied exhibits and in its setting 
 and architecture. The colorings are beyond words. The gardens are a 
 flame of color, varying with the season and the plants selected. The 
 electrical effects, produced by direct, indirect and combined lighting are 
 marvelous. The effects produced at night by powerful searchlights on 
 the buildings and the sky cause one to stop and wonder where it will all 
 end. Entertainment of every sort is afforded you from feasting your 
 eyes on the most beautiful of the world's art and filling your mind with 
 the most wonderful display of exhibits of every kind, to laughing your 
 head off at some comic amusement of the 'Zone.' I cannot 'tell you 
 about it' and I am not going to try. I can say, however, that it is the 
 grandest show on earth, and it is the first exposition to commemorate 
 a coming event, the opening of the Panama Canal, a work now com- 
 pleted, and one which means so much to all of us. I can only express 
 the wish that all '99 men can see this most wonderful of all expositions. 
 
 Yes, I planted a dandy garden this spring and it was a sure-enough 
 success. Our early peas fairly melted in your mouth after being pre- 
 pared in such a way as only my wife can prepare them. I'm not going 
 to tell you just how early in the year we had radishes, peas, lettuce, 
 beets, carrots, etc., as I know if I did you would all want to come to 
 California at once and start a garden this spring. I certainly will have 
 another one this coming spring. 
 
 The only '99 man I have had the pleasure of seeing is 'Bill' Sears. 
 I used to stop at his office regularly every time I drove from Hollister 
 to San Francisco, and sometimes I would find him out at work and 
 sometimes at home 'tinkering' on his made-over automobile. I think 
 he has a new one now that does not require so much tinkering, so I do 
 not know what he does with his spare time. He has a fine big boy, 
 and I suppose he puts in some time teaching him how to do the 200 
 yards in the time Bill used to do it. The last time I saw Bill, my wife 
 and I were entertained at his house at luncheon. 
 
 Bones Woodward is doing fine at Seattle. He kindly entertained 
 my sister when she was there this summer. "Sis" writes that he has 
 a fine wife and family and a dandy home. He gave her a beautiful 
 trip around Seattle in his motor, and did himself proud in entertaining 
 the sister of a '99 man. Cush writes me quite regularly and some of 
 his letters contain interesting news about Randolph, his trips home, his 
 
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new Haines roadster and what it will do, his success in his business, 
 the fact that he is still single and expects to remain so, poor collections, 
 etc., etc. My sister who lives in Randolph sends me wonderful reports 
 about John Dubois. He is a model husband and father, has a charm- 
 ing and adorable wife and three fine children, has a good business well 
 cared for, and in short conducts himself in all ways as a good reliable 
 and steady citizen should. 
 
 I met A. B. Patterson '98 here the other day. He is still bald but 
 looks fine and hard and strong, as a result of his out-door work in 
 the forest service. He is Forest Supervisor of the Sequoia Nat'l Forest 
 which comprises over 2y 2 million acres of timber. He was in Fresno 
 for a day and was driving a Ford car. He was on his way to the 
 Visalia country where prune orchards thrive with the bee in his bonnet 
 to buy one, and then find a wife and finally settle down and live on the 
 profits of raising prunes, no mean product in this state I can assure 
 you. "Pat" said that when he was in the boarding house at Hanover 
 hating prunes served for every meal, that he little thought he would 
 be in California hunting a prune orchard in which to live and make his 
 income increase. The same day I met Patterson, I also met Paul 
 Redington '00. P. G. is Forest Supervisor of the Sierra Nat'l Forest. 
 I was some pleased to see him, and we played some pool and had a 
 few drinks, and then I brought him out to the house to sample some 
 of my wife's good cooking. Either Paul was very hungry or the cook- 
 ing pleased him, because he certainly did act like he enjoyed the dinner. 
 He persuaded me to take a day off and drive him home to North Fork. 
 I finally agreed, and the next morning my wife and I in my trusty Over- 
 land met Paul and drove the 50 miles up into the mountains to his 
 foresf home. There we were met by his lovely wife and introduced to 
 his wonderful boy. SOME BOY. Only two years old and one must 
 take his hat off to this boy. He talks like a man and is very well and 
 mighty handsome. Paul is some proud father I assure you. We stayed 
 over Sunday and were well entertained. Paul presides over 1,743,000 
 acres of land and over 14 billions of merchantable timber. He is proud 
 of his work and is becoming a recognized factor in the Forest Service. 
 He is now in San Francisco attending a convention of Lumbermen. 
 
 C. E. Adams Charles Ezra answers that he has been at work 
 
 every day, and found plenty of it. In addition 
 he has been caring for his father, who was ill for over a year 
 at his home in Keene, and who passed away October 4, 1915. 
 There have, therefore, been no vacations, and the summer home 
 which he has at Gilsum, N. H., has been rented this last season. 
 He has succeeded, however, in keeping in physical trim by keep- 
 ing the weeds out of a garden that he hired planted, and has 
 
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had the pleasure of "meeting up" with Dave Storrs, Charles 
 Sturtevant, Dr. Hopkins, and Warren Kendall. 
 
 N. B. Adams "Cig" says he never worked harder than this 
 
 year. "N. P.", Pitt and Willis are among his 
 customers, but he doesn't say that they are wholly responsible 
 for the extra work. He's made many friends and been happy. 
 He keeps the old family place at Limerick, Maine, as a summer 
 place and for a vacation he spent two rainy, though restful 
 weeks within its comfortable shelter. 
 
 E. L. Allen "Ed has kept moving right on this last year. 
 
 He has been revising his formulas for soda 
 fountain syrups, and inventing many new drinks. Has per- 
 fected formula for "marshmallow" that leads them all, and his 
 company has sold thousands of pounds of it. If your wife tells 
 you she has had a luscious marshmallow soda down town 
 a-shopping, you may know it was "Ed's". He has no kick com- 
 ing on account of the war, though they have been forced to 
 advance the price of finished product on account of advance in 
 price of raw material, largely imported from Germany, and 
 though the advance in sugar has helped to eat up some of the 
 profits, for it has served to show that there are chemists in the 
 United States as well as in Germany. Ed's winter home is so 
 pleasantly located, on Arlington Heights, with a park next door, 
 and a fine unobstructed view, that he doesn't need to have a 
 summer home. A garden which he admits may have been unsat- 
 isfactory financially, though quite satisfactory otherwise, helps 
 to make it a real summer home, in the summer time. Still he did 
 run away from the ruts of business for a week's hunting in the 
 Maine woods, and is now considering something new in the way 
 of a summer drink. 
 
 K. Asakawa "K" has been leading a strenuous existence. 
 
 Abroad Every minute outside of regular work, he has 
 
 put upon the war, going even so far as to read 
 the German Sagas in order to get at the German point of view. 
 He has been at work on one major research and one minor 
 
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research, and presented introductory papers on both. On July 
 23 a paper on "Japan's Early Experience with Buddhism" was 
 presented at the meeting of the American Historical Association 
 at San Francisco — that's as near as he got to the Fair. He was 
 himself abroad, on a tour of observation, among the warring 
 nations, which began in June and lasted through September, and 
 included Italy, — where he even got down to the "toe of things" 
 in Sicily, — France and England. "K" saw Carl and Mrs. Mil- 
 ler in New Haven in November, 1914, Berger in New York 
 December, 1914, and Fuller in New Haven this last October. He 
 writes, January 23, 1916: — 
 
 Dear "Sport" George: My European trip of last summer was 
 nothing more than a blind man's journey in a new land. It would be 
 rude to refuse you altogether, but I must circumvent your nefarious 
 scheme by furnishing you with the barest outlines of my pilgrimage 
 and reserving to myself all the foolish notions I have gained which, 
 were they brought to light, would be my undoing. 
 
 It was my first trip to Europe. For it I chose this time of all times 
 for I supposed that the everlasting tourists would for once have been 
 frightened away from the zone of war and that in many important 
 respects the belligerent nations would be more likely to reveal what 
 they were at this critical moment than at any other time. My purpose 
 was not to study military or financial situation, but to come in actual 
 contact with the allied nations when they were in a serious and earnest 
 mood, and to feel with my own hands, as it were, what sort of culture 
 and training each nation had received from its past and how that cul- 
 ture and training influenced the individual man and woman in practical 
 conduct and at this particular time. 
 
 There would be risks and inconveniences in such a trip, but I 
 thought it would be well even for so meek an individual as I, for the 
 sake of the light I was confident I should gain, to be a little dare-devil 
 for once. Far greater a requisite for me for this trip than courage 
 (for a chicken's courage would suffice for that) was the capacity for 
 shedding like water all my personal prejudices about European nations 
 and their history, reaching out my hands for them with humility and 
 receiving with sensitiveness the impressions they might give me. It is 
 needless to say that my capacity along these lines hardly existed, but 
 nevertheless I created for myself an opportunity to test and cultivate it. 
 
 I left New York on an Italian boat on June 5th and returned there 
 September ,30th in a Dutch ship, having spent nearly four months be- 
 yond the protection of the Stars and Stripes. A half of that time 
 
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was passed in Italy and the remainder divided between France and 
 England. 
 
 Of inconveniences, there were many, especially in Italy, where I 
 was, to my infinite relish, subjected to incredibly frequent police exam- 
 inations. I welcomed these opportunities to come in practical touch 
 with Italians and others and missed them whenever they were not 
 forthcoming. 
 
 One real and great inconvenience for me was my acquaintance with 
 the English language. I noted an immediate relaxation of my alert- 
 ness as soon as I stepped on board an English vessel to go across the 
 channel ; and when I got to London I felt so much at home that not 
 even the Zeppelin raid that came over there early in September suc- 
 ceeded in thrilling me and reopening my pores to the extent of atten- 
 tion that had been constant with me in Italy and France. In these 
 European countries, I found that an ability to read combined with an 
 inability to speak well was rather an advantage for my special purpose. 
 I exploited my ignorance as much as I dared and indeed I not only 
 got along somehow at stores, restaurants and police stations, but also 
 — do you believe it? — exchanged ideas (with a liberal use of gestures 
 and solecisms) with all classes of Italians and French and made friends. 
 As for ready contacts and observations, there was no end to the fun 
 I got out of them with my handful vocabulary and pocket lexicon. I 
 want to remind you, Sport, that — with due respect for your legal love 
 — the reason that you are not keener than you are about America is 
 because you know the American language (which, of course, is not 
 English). Unlearn it and discover what a marvellous, amorphous world 
 surrounds you. 
 
 Well, Sport, I have conducted you to the portal of my house of 
 many and mysterious observations; and I must stop, both for your 
 sake and for mine, lest they might bewilder you and embarrass me. 
 Your obedient servant, K. Asakawa. 
 
 J. W. Ash John replies to the questionnaire that he has 
 
 removed from Chattanooga to Corvallis, Ore- 
 gon, and then after a lot of clever answers, like women in their 
 postscripts, puts the real stuff in a footnote. It is written on 
 yellow paper headed "Builders' Supply Co. — Cement, Lime, 
 Plaster, Sewer Pipe, Drain, Tile, etc. — John W. Ash, Pres. and 
 Gen. Mgr. — Jas. D. Child, Sec. and Treas." We quote: 
 
 Corvallis, Oregon, Nov. 10, 1915. My dear George: This is the 
 footnote and it is liable to be more brief than I intended because I went 
 to fill up my pipe and found the $100 money bag empty and I have 
 bummed so much tobacco from Ted lately that I feel ashamed of 
 
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myself, so when this pipeful is gone, I will have to quit. Now for it, 
 starting with No. 9. 
 
 After putting in a winter of comparative idleness (I made a two- 
 day survey between Nov. 1st and April 1st), I got the old western 
 fever back in my system and as I still had a few dollars left, I bought 
 a ticket and "lit a rag" as the nigger says. I went to Texas, thence to 
 California, took in the San Diego and Frisco fairs and liked them both, 
 the former the best, as I saw it at its best in April. When I got tired 
 of those places, Los Angeles and a few other towns, I struck North 
 into Oregon which I did in fair shape and landed here. That gets me 
 on question 15. I became acquainted with a few members of the Ore- 
 gon Agricultural College faculty and the Eng. Dept. got me to give 
 the Engineering class a lecture on Engineering in general. I did so. 
 From a technical point of view it was a howling failure, but judging 
 from the laughter and cheers, it was a grand success as a humorous 
 anecdote. The boys would like to have it repeated, but I do not see 
 my name upon the list of lecturers for the coming winter. Well I 
 dug out of here and went around to some of my old stamping places 
 in Washington and then I went down into Idaho to my old claim. I 
 mooned around my old cabins that I built 25 years ago, one of them 
 was sitting down and the other getting ready to lie down. The old 
 trails were all grown up, but I wandered around through the woods 
 for a few days and then pulled out for home with the fever worse than 
 when I started on the trip. 
 
 As soon as I got back I started getting ready for another trip. By 
 June 5th I had a carload of furniture and other junk loaded and freight 
 paid on it and the machine rigged for a long trip. I loaded my 
 wife, five children, the colored girl and myself into the machine and 
 departed from there. 
 
 The trip would fill a small book, it was one continual round of 
 hills, rocks, mud, water, canyons, mountains, and pleasure all the way 
 and with the exceptions of Bardstown, Ky., Chicago, Omaha, and 
 Grand Island, Neb., we camped out every night. Our route was over 
 the Dixie Hy. to Chicago, Lincoln Hy. to Ogden, Utah, thence to 
 Boise, Idaho, across Central Oregon through the John Day and Straw- 
 berry country to the Deschutes and Columbia River. We got onto the 
 Columbia Hy. the day after it was opened up and in spite of warnings 
 that we could not get over it with our load, we made the trip and was 
 the first touring car from the East to pass over it. It was the real 
 scenic route of the whole trip, but we lost our last Tenn. air there in 
 two tires. They both went within two hours of each other and the 
 loss was followed by a heavy wind. The next day we got to Portland 
 and arrived here about 8 a. m. Ted was waiting for me and had my 
 furniture in a house and grub ready to cook. 
 
 I saw Buck Burns in Omaha in June. I got him to cash a check 
 for me, don't know whether he ever got any money on it or not. 
 
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Since I came here I have finished two street paving contracts and 
 am engaged in the manufacture of concrete sewer pipe, drain tile, build- 
 ing blocks and cement products in general. 
 
 My pipe has gone out. Goodbye. Yours ever, J. W. Ash. 
 
 The trip does fill a book, a clever bit of work called "Chat- 
 tanooga to Oregon", which contains on its right hand pages 
 the day to day journal of the trip as set down by John and on 
 the left hand pages real photographs taken by John, too. We 
 take the liberty of quoting a few of the days. 
 
 June 5, 1915. On this date, about 9 a. m., Mrs. Ash, five children, 
 from three to twelve years of age, colored maid, and myself, left 
 Chattanooga in a light six-cylinder, 7-passenger, 40-H.P., 1914 model, 
 Hudson car, loaded with a camp outfit, bedding, tent flies, provisions, 
 two extra tires, ropes, tire chains, axe, shovel, trunk, and three suit 
 cases, fishing tackle, and small rifle, and other things deemed necessary 
 for a comfortable trip. The whole outfit, passengers and machine, 
 weighed practically 4000 lbs. We passed around the edge of Lookout 
 Mountain, down the Tennessee River to Rankins Ferry, crossed the 
 river on ferryboat propelled by a small motorboat attached to the 
 side. We crossed the Cumberland Mountains where we paid $1.00 
 toll, had a blow-out, broke our trunk rack, and paid another toll of 
 50 cents on the other side near Wonder Cave. We visited the cave 
 and found it very wonderful and pretty. It took about two hours to 
 walk through it. Most of the roads were very rough and rocky, es- 
 pecially across the mountains, but we found occasional stretches of 
 chert and macadam roads that were fine. We made camp at an ideal 
 spot on the edge of a small stream. Mosquitoes quite bad. Made 62 
 miles. 
 
 June 7 — Left Camp No. 2, had fine roads and figured on making- 
 Louisville that night, but about 2 p. m. we struck a streak of bad roads 
 caused by cloud burst. We stopped and were putting on our chains 
 when a new big six driven by a man plunged past us and immediately 
 got stuck. We helped him out and he went plunging ahead without 
 chains. We finally got started and drove carefully and slowly for 
 about a mile, when we found the big six down in the ditch for keeps. 
 We worked past him and then went back with shovel and axe and 
 started to help him out. Had to pry the car up with a long pole and 
 block it up with rocks. Got him up when another big car came along 
 with a Mr. Tanner and wife of Indianapolis. They got past him and 
 hitched a tow-line to him and got him on the road, if you can call three 
 feet of mud a road ; it was all a new fill of dirt three feet deep and was 
 soaked to the bottom. We helped one another through and it took us 
 
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over two hours to go two miles. From there on for many miles the road 
 was very bad. We were in the lead. We met a car going south, they 
 advised us to be very careful in fording the next creek we came to, 
 where the bridge had been washed out and gave us implicit instructions 
 how to cross it. We followed their directions, the water was deep and 
 got up in our bedding and suit cases, but not in our carburetor, so 
 we got safely over. The two cars following did not do so well, they 
 had to be pulled out. They finally overtook us as we had broken a 
 front spring somewhere in the rough travel and were going carefully 
 and we finally drove into Bardstown, Ky., where we put up at a hotel 
 so as to get our car fixed during the night. We made 132 miles in 
 spite of bad roads. 
 
 Sunday, June 13 — During the night a heavy storm came up and 
 before we could get dressed the rain was driving in under the canvas 
 and the wind was pulling up our stakes so that it was necessary for 
 everybody to grab the canvas and hold it tight. Even then it was torn 
 out of our hands several times and our bedding got soaked as well as 
 ourselves and our clothes. The maid on the other side lay on her 
 cot and hung on for dear life while the water ran down her head and 
 arms onto her bed. During a lull we threw our clothes into the ma- 
 chine and rolled our bedding into a heap and got into the machine 
 where we dressed the best we could and for the rest of the night we 
 sat upright and slept when we didn't have to hold the canvas down. 
 It was real funny and laughable. I tried to hold down the canvas with 
 one hand and put my pants on with the other and for fifteen minutes 
 I never got but one leg in my pants and the children were laughing at 
 me. The sun came out next morning which was Sunday and we found 
 trees uprooted, wires and poles down and one big limb over a foot 
 through had been torn off one of the cottonwoods and dropped a few 
 feet from the front of the machine. I should hate to think what would 
 have happened if it had gone about ten feet further in our direction. 
 After getting our bedding and clothes hung up in the sun, we had a 
 good hot breakfast of bacon and eggs, baked beans, potatoes, bread and 
 coffee and as soon as we got all the things dried we packed up and 
 made a start about 11 o'clock. The roads were in bad shape, but we 
 crosed the Father of Waters at Clinton, Iowa, about 4.30 p. m. We 
 laid in a stock of provisions at a bakery ; being Sunday we couldn't get 
 into a grocery store and left to find a camping place, which we found 
 about six miles west. We made 73 miles during the day. 
 
 Sunday, June 20 — Left Camp No. 12 at 8.40 a. m. and struck our 
 worst roads yet, nothing but mud, water, deep holes and deep ditches 
 on each side of the road, so that you were in constant dread of skid- 
 ding into one of the ditches and drowning the whole crowd. Had to 
 use ropes for the first time, myself and the three largest children in 
 our bare feet and legs would pull on the rope while Mrs. Ash drove 
 
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the car and we would go ahead and show her just where to drive 
 through the water so she wouldn't get into the ditch. It began to 
 look like getting a team, but we stayed with it and drove and pulled. 
 One place ahead of us we could see some men and a team pulling a 
 car out of a bad place, so we detoured over another road and did fairly 
 well for a while. A freight train came along when we were down in 
 a deep hole, the engineer slowed down to see how we got out and the 
 crew laughed like good fellows to see us out there in our bare legs 
 pulling on the rope, but we showed them we had an engine that didn't 
 have to have rails to travel on and they waved their hats at us when 
 we pulled out. We made camp that night on schoolhouse grounds two 
 miles west of Central City and made 87 miles that day in spite of the 
 mud. Mosquitoes were thick and the children gathered grass and ma- 
 nure and built several smudges to keep them off. 
 
 June 21 — Left Camp 13 at 9.00 a. m. The dews were so heavy 
 that we couldn't get our canvases dried out, and we had another siege 
 of mud and water, several times we had to turn around and back track 
 to some other road on account of places that were practically impas- 
 sable. Not five miles of the Lincoln Highway was fit to travel on 
 towards Grand Island where we arrived at 1.00 having been four hours 
 going 26 miles. At Grand Island we were promised good roads at least 
 to Kearney, so we started out with a brave heart and a lot of nice 
 fresh provisions. Just got out of town when we made a mistake in 
 the road and started to turn around. We got crossways of the road 
 and couldn't go any further, our engine ran but the wheels refused to 
 go. I got out and got under and found there was something wrong 
 with the transmission, so we pushed the car around to the side of the 
 road and 'phoned back to Grand Island for a tow back to town. We 
 found that one axle was twisted in two and the other twisted up like 
 a rope. Apparently they held together till we got out of the bad places 
 and then gave out before we got into them again, which was fortunate 
 for us. We wired to Omaha for a new pair of axles, engaged some 
 rooms opposite the garage and sat down to wait and watch a few other 
 cars roll in. They all had hard tales to tell and the cars from the 
 West told us what we were up against in front of us. We cheered 
 them up likewise. Lots of them concluded to lay over a few days and 
 rest up and wait for a little sunshine, but we doubt if they ever got it. 
 Only 26 miles today. 
 
 June 23 — Axles arrived about 6 a. m. Got busy and got them in 
 and left at 9.00 a. m. Had good weather and pretty good roads till 
 nearing Kearney. Mrs. Ash was driving and passed a fast freight train 
 and they were not poking along either, but it started to pour again and 
 we had to slow down. We left Kearney and got into bad roads again. 
 In one place there was a string of autos stuck in the mud ahead of us 
 and had to be pulled out with teams. We watched carefully and by 
 
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using our shovel occasionally we kept out of the ditch and had no 
 serious trouble. Some of the machines dropped into the first camping 
 places and the rest of them stopped at the next town called Elm Creek, 
 but we calmly wended our way onwards and left them behind in spite 
 of their protestations that we would get stuck and have to stay in the 
 mud all night. By detouring in several places, we cheated one or two 
 farmers with teams who had an attitude of "watchful waiting" for 
 us to get stuck so they could make five dollars easy, but we kept dig- 
 ging out and plunging ahead. In one place a farmer and his wife in 
 their wagon drove along on their farm on the other side of the fence 
 and kept up with us. When we got stuck they would stop and watch 
 me dig out while Mrs. Ash drove the car and the rest walked. After 
 we had done this at least three times in a mile they gave it up and I 
 could see the look of disgust on their faces as the woman remarked, 
 "Well, I know they will get stuck in the next hole." We didn't get 
 into the "next hole" for the simple reason there was a machine already 
 in it. It looked as if he was there for keeps with two teams trying 
 to pull him up, so we hailed a farmer afoot and asked him a few 
 questions about the roads thereabouts and if there really was a road 
 anywhere, at which he became very indignant and said we ought to 
 stay at home as the people in that country were satisfied and didn't 
 want to advertise their country or sell out and move, whereupon we 
 simply remarked that if some people weren't so stingy they would 
 spend a few dollars and get them some roads. He had enough and 
 walked away, so we backed up a few hundred yards and took another 
 road and found a camping place east of Overton, Neb. We made 73 
 miles and ate a good supper of bacon, eggs, beans, bread, milk and 
 coffee. 
 
 June 25 — Before reaching Ogalalla we broke that same spring again 
 and I was working on it when eight cars, all of which we had left 
 behind us at previous times went sailing by, all as happy as if they 
 were going to a Fourth of July picnic. We were on high, dry ground 
 once again. I got fixed up and caught the whole bunch at Ogalalla. 
 We let them get out ahead as we couldn't travel very fast with the 
 spring broken. At Big Spring we started to climb a long steep hill 
 and on top it was just as flat as a table as far as we could see in 
 front of us with a house a long, long way off. As it was getting late 
 Mrs. Ash took the wheel and I rode on the front where I could watch 
 the spring and we beat it. Just before we got to the ranch the car 
 jumped out of a rut and into a barbed wire fence. In less time than 
 it takes to mention it, I was minus a pants' leg and some skin, but we 
 got to the ranch where we found one of the eight cars and we joined 
 them and made camp. We could see the mountains in Colorado from 
 there. Made 78 miles. The children saw their first prairie dogs and 
 owls and just went wild over them and just kept in a regular uproar 
 making them run into their holes. 
 
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Sunday, June 27 — Left Camp 17 at 9 a. m. Had good roads to 
 Cheyenne, went into garage for oil, grease, etc., got provisions and a 
 new set of axles I had ordered sent there from Salt Lake in case of 
 accident. As we were leaving Cheyenne a terrific storm came up and 
 we stopped under shelter for the worst to blow over. We commenced 
 to climb up and up all day long and got our first view of the snow- 
 capped Rocky Mountain peaks. Got up to an elevation of over 9000 
 feet at the summit of the U. P. near the Ames Monument, made camp 
 at Tie Siding, Wyoming, and got hay out of a stable for a bed. The 
 nights were getting lots colder. Made 90 miles today. 
 
 June 29 — Left Nelson Ranch through Rawlins and started up the 
 Continental Divide. Passed through a town large enough for 1000 
 people, but there was not a single soul in the whole town. Lots of 
 the buildings were in good condition and some had curtains still up 
 in them. Ran short of water and had to use dirty alkali water for our 
 radiator. We were now in the sagebrush country proper. We climbed 
 up and up all day, most of the road following an abandoned railroad 
 grade with lots of the ties still in the roadbed. Met one of the cars 
 that was ahead of us going back to Rawlins for repairs. We found a 
 big fine jar of stuffed dates and figs in the road. The seal was un- 
 broken and we had a nice feed at someone else's expense for which 
 we thanked them. We lost an axe the day before and had to buy a 
 new one, it evened it up. Had fine road all the way up the divide, but 
 it was awful windy and threatened to blow us clean off the roof of the 
 world. Nothing but sagebrush to be seen anywhere, not a building 
 except a flag station and section house on the railroad. We saw our 
 first badger, but he got into his hole before I could get out the little 
 rifle. Had a still hunt for two sage hens. Got one and a few chickens. 
 Had a puncture on the divide, the second on the trip so far. Got to 
 a deserted coal mine and made camp in one of the shacks. There was 
 a bed, stove and other things in there just as clean as you would wish 
 for. Had supper, cleaned the chickens and went to bed. Paid 40 cents 
 a dozen for eggs and 20 cents a quart for new milk. Made 121 miles. 
 
 June 30 — Left Camp 20 at 8 a. m. after having a fine breakfast of 
 sage chickens, passed through Point of Rocks, Rock Springs and Green 
 River, had beautiful roads. Mrs. Ash drove most of the way and I 
 enjoyed the scenery and smoked my pipe. Went into camp west of 
 Bryan on Black Ford at 2 p. m. We fished, but caught nothing. Worked 
 on the car and caught up on the washing. Made 58 miles. 
 
 July 3 — Left Camp 23 at 8 a. m., went to Ogden, wrote and mailed 
 some letters, had the usual crowd of spectators to ask questions and 
 then left, had good roads all day, met lots of farm rigs going fo cele- 
 brate the 4th. Stopped at Brigham City, decorated the car with Old 
 Glory and went on. Bought some bread, eggs and butter at a ranch 
 and made camp on creek near pass in the mountains 25 miles west of 
 Strevells. Came very near meeting with an accident. Mrs. Ash was 
 
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driving and we were on a pretty fair road which we could see ap- 
 parently for miles ahead of us, when all of a sudden the road curved 
 sharp to the left and ran down a very steep hill. Our brakes having 
 gone bad on us again, we tried to get into low gear and go down in 
 compression, but for some reason or other the engine went dead, so 
 we couldn't shift into low gear. By that time we were well started 
 down the hill with all the brakes on we could get on. Half way down 
 the hill was a team coming up. We yelled at the driver to get out of 
 the way. He got as far as he could on the side of the bank and we 
 shot by him on the outer edge on a very small margin. The road 
 swerved sharply to the right again, but we made the turn all right and 
 went out on the straight road about forty miles an hour, none the worse 
 but pretty well shaken up and rather scared. Made 142 miles. Total 
 to date 2578 miles. 
 
 July 9 — Heavy rains all night, left Seneca at 9 a. m., roads muddy 
 and rough. Had to go down one steep mountain grade 4 miles long. 
 Everybody afraid to ride. They all walked except the two little fel- 
 lows. Went through a canyon 14 miles, met a Ford in the road, had 
 to hold it out over the edge of the road while Mrs. Ash drove past. 
 Went through Canyon City, John Day and Daysville. Paid 40c a gallon 
 for gas. Had heavy mountain roads all day and had to dig out of 
 the mud several times. Made camp on Rock Creek, Antone, P. O. 
 Bought some pork that must have been in pickle 5 years. Did some 
 fishing, but caught nothing. Made 72 miles. 
 
 July 10 — Left Antone at 7.30, made good time through the hills to 
 Mitchell 20 miles, then our troubles commenced again, but we could 
 nearly see the end of the trip and took it as it came. After leaving 
 Mitchell it was up and down mountains and through canyons all day. 
 The scenery was fine and continually changing. The erosions among 
 the hills were all colors of the rainbow and all shapes imaginable. The 
 children were in raptures over the different animal shapes they could 
 picture out without any stretch of the imagination. The rocks stood 
 up like gigantic statues of lions, bears, elephants, human beings and 
 everything imaginable. At the summit of the last mountain we climbed, 
 we stopped and looked back over the country we had been going through 
 all day. It did not seem possible that an auto could ever get through 
 such a wild, rough country and in fact very few of them do. Had we 
 known what was ahead of us when we left Drewsey, we should have taken 
 the regular route through Burns and Prineville, but we got through it that 
 day without an accident and only one blowout. The road was marked 
 all the way with empty beer bottles and jack rabbits were innumerable. 
 We passed through Antelope to Shaniko where we bought our Sunday 
 provisions and made camp at a farm house. We all slept that night on 
 the hay in the barn. Made 11 miles today. 3174 miles to date. 
 
 Sunday, July 11 — Left about 8 a. m. We soon got a fine view of 
 ili<- snow-covered peaks in the Cascade Range, Hood, Jefferson, Wash- 
 
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ington, Three Sisters and several others. Crossed the Deschutes and 
 down the Columbia River to The Dalles. Had our first engine trouble 
 and had to make camp on a hill above the Columbia River, ten miles 
 out of The Dalles. Had a blowout. Made only 81 miles. 
 
 July 12 — Left Camp 32 at 8 a. m. Had more engine trouble, got 
 to Hood River, passed over Mitchell's Point on to the Columbia High- 
 way. Had been advised to ship our car to Portland from Hood River 
 as Mitchell's Point was dangerous and the tunnel through was not open 
 to traffic, but we took a chance as other cars had already been over 
 and we were the first big touring car from the East to go over the 
 new Columbia Highway. It was passable but far from being finished. 
 The scenery along here was grand and we made camp in an old cement 
 house by the river. Had two punctures and lost the last Tennessee air 
 that we had carried all the way in our two front tires. All the previous 
 punctures and blowouts had been on the rear wheels. Made only 42 
 miles. 
 
 July 13 — Left Camp 33 about 9 a. m. Went to Portland, travel- 
 ing slowly and taking in all the scenery. Had a little work done on 
 the car and left Portland about 2 p. m. Had a heavy rain on the road 
 and had to use our ropes twice to get us out of the ditch. Passed 
 through Salem, got mixed up on the roads and did not arrive in Cor- 
 vallis till about 8.30 p. m. Used our headlights on the road the first 
 time since starting on the trip. Found a welcome awaiting us. Made 
 135 miles today, a total to date of 3430 miles. 
 
 Don't they give you a thrill akin to those you got when 
 you read Lewis and Clark's journal? Don't they give you a 
 better concept of the distance across the continent than you 
 had before? Don't they make you want to take ofY your hat 
 to Mrs. John Ash? 
 
 "Association, In the year 1896 there was formed an organization 
 
 Dartmouth Liv- known as the Dartmouth Educational Association 
 ery Stable", Read which has done a great and good work at Dartmouth 
 at Class Supper College. Realizing the need of other similar institu- 
 Nov. 6, 1915 — tions in Dartmouth I have seen fit to form what is 
 R. P. Johnston called the Dartmouth Livery Stable Association, of 
 
 which I have the honor to present the prospectus. 
 
 The Dartmouth Livery Stable Association is a corporation organ- 
 ized under the laws of the commonwealth of New Hampshire for the 
 purpose of assisting needy students pursuing courses of study at Dart- 
 mouth College. The place within which it is established is the town 
 of Hanover. The reasons for its organization were as follows : 
 
 There are many students at Dartmouth College who from tempo- 
 rary lack of funds are unable to hire teams to go to Lebanon. These 
 
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men are as a rule cribbing their way through college, and are self re- 
 specting and self supporting. They are not objects of charity and are 
 unwilling either to ask or receive it. A temporary loan, however, for 
 which the student could give his note, would be purely a business trans- 
 action, and would be of the utmost assistance to him, meaning the 
 entire success or failure of his plans to hire teams to go to Lebanon. 
 Realizing the great value and advantage of one-horse teams for trips 
 to Lebanon the Dartmouth Livery Stable Association has been formed 
 to provide the means by which such teams may be procured. Its method 
 of procedure is as follows : 
 
 Each member of the Association pays yearly to the treasurer the 
 sum of $10, and from the fund thus created teams are hired for stu- 
 dents upon application. Each application is carefully considered and 
 investigated by the officers and trustees. The recipients of the teams 
 are required to give their personal promise that they will go only to 
 Lebanon, and not to the June or anywhere else. Students found going 
 to Enfield or Aetna will never be allowed to receive another team. 
 
 When the teams are returned the horses go again into the general 
 barn of the Association, and are again loaned out as occasion demands. 
 The Association is operated on a very efficient and economical basis, and 
 pays its officers no salaries and feeds its horses no oats, and the work 
 of the hostlers and trustees is entirely gratuitous. 
 
 The loans during the past year averaged 7^4 teams per boy. To 
 most of the boys these teams were of the greatest assistance and rep- 
 resented the difference between staying in college and going to Leba- 
 non. When a single one-horse team means so much to a boy, every 
 one of whom we have looked up and with whom we are satisfied, it 
 seems that the great work of the Livery Stable Association should have 
 more generous support. 
 
 The teams do not go to inefficients, or to those who have not 
 shown ability to attain a mark of at least y 2 case in beer, or have 
 done work of equal rating in cider. Teams are lent to first class able 
 lads who have shown some excuse for their existence, and some prom- 
 ise that they are going to get to Leb anyway, even if they have to 
 walk — the kind of boys we like to think are typical representatives of 
 the college, and boys that you would help get to Lebanon if their cases 
 were brought personally to you. 
 
 The machinery we have devised for doing this operates satisfactor- 
 ily. We have loaned teams to but very few boys who have failed to 
 return the horse, and in such cases we have charged the horse to 
 profit and loss, and allowed the boy to send us another horse when he 
 gets out of college. 
 
 Of late we have limited the loan of horses to members of the two 
 upper classes. This gives us a chance to get full information regard- 
 ing the applicant and to find out if he can drive. The treasurer will 
 be glad to furnish you with any information regarding details of the 
 
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work. All the directors of the fund and trustees of the College are 
 furnished with lists of the horses outstanding, and also those in the 
 barn, and can give you the names of the horses and of the boys being 
 helped in case you are interested. 
 
 It is with sorrow that we report the death of three horses during 
 the fiscal year just closed. One died of old age, one of insomnia from 
 being up so much at night, and the other expired at a point near the 
 Spring House, from what cause we do not know. 
 
 Below we append the Treasurer's report: 
 Statement for the year ending with the death of Hen Swasey: — 
 
 Cash received from all sources $8.58 
 
 Paid for hay .75 
 
 Paid for horse liniment .50 
 
 Paid for whips, cudgels, etc. 12.00 
 
 Rebate on empties 9.98 
 
 Deficit at end of year, 1.25 
 
 So you see we came out with a clean balance sheet, but our needs 
 for the ensuing year are great and we must have a horse blanket. We 
 trust some good friend of the College may see fit to present us with 
 one, or to leave us one in his will, and we hope he will die early so 
 we may have the use of the horse blanket by next winter. 
 
 The following is a list of pledges made for our good work, all the 
 donors feeling that they know personally of the value of what we are 
 doing : 
 
 Abbott, Pap $ 2.00 
 
 Barney, James 3.00 
 
 Carson, Philip 25.00 
 
 Corey, Guy 100.00 
 
 Drew, Pitt 5.00 
 
 Hoban, Owen 2.00 
 
 Hoskins, Neal 1,500.00 
 
 Kendall, Warren 10.00 
 
 Sanborn, Rodney 250.00 
 
 Wardle, Edward 8.00 
 
 Wason, Harry 5,000.00 
 
 I may add that none of the above is paid yet. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, Robt. P. Johnston, Treas. 
 
 W. T. Atwood Bill reports that he has worked a little harder 
 
 and earned a little more than the previous year ; 
 that he has been a trustee of the Melrose Public Library for the 
 last three years, a position which he resigned this year and that 
 he is and has been clerk of the Melrose Orthodox Congrega- 
 
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tional Church for the last four years. He is also trustee of his 
 fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, and has been active in the recent 
 remodelling of the Dr. Smith property owned by them. This 
 year he has become an alumni agent for the Dartmouth Chris- 
 tian Association. Bill retains the family farm on the Penobscot 
 at Hampden, Me., and made his usual pilgrimage to the old sod 
 and camped out on the river bank there with his family during 
 July. As the sun shone only one day out of the thirty he was 
 glad to get back to his home in Melrose, and clear the weeds 
 out of his garden and supply his neighbors and friends in town 
 with sweet corn, summer squash, tomatoes, beans, and beets 
 from his plenteous crop. Bill reports seeing Bill Colbert, Cav 
 and Joe Gannon at Commencement, and Musgrove and family 
 in Boston in September en route for a little vacation at Hamp- 
 ton Beach. December 14th, Bill was elected to the school board 
 of Melrose for three years, obtaining the second highest vote 
 in a field of five candidates. The election affidavit returned 
 showed not even a cent expended on the campaign. 
 
 H. M. Bailey Bailey reports a changed address. The war 
 
 makes him sad, but business has been good, and 
 the same old story, building everything small or large and 
 keeping the quality high. It keeps him on the road most of the 
 time, and except for a short time in July boating and fishing at 
 Congomond Lake, an occasional day trout fishing in the woods 
 of Western Massachusetts, stolen from business in the trout 
 season, he did not get any vacation. 
 
 E. G. Baldwin Ned was at work in Granville, N. Y., during 
 
 the summer, but in October came to Boston 
 and has been working for the B. & M. 
 
 J. L. Barney James celebrated the advent of the year 1915 
 
 with a bona fide attack of whooping cough. 
 For a time it made him look and feel like the articles at a ten 
 cent store after the Xmas rush, but he came out of it in due 
 course looking as handsome as ever and able to perform his 
 double duties as secretary of the Pope Lumber Co. and treas- 
 
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urcr and wheelhorsc of the '99 executive committee. He reports 
 nothing done out of the ordinary in the lumber business, but 
 the other members of the executive committee could not agree 
 to a like classification of his part of the work for the class. 
 Both have kept him busy and at home. His "winter home is 
 even more livable in summer than in winter", and so with little 
 after-one-o'clock-Saturday-week-end journeys in his "good old 
 White", he brought his family and self through the heated sea- 
 son in fine form without any transfer of his household gods and 
 penates elsewhere. 
 
 E. W. Barstow Barstow's position as Principal of the Bar- 
 row's Grammar School has kept him busy fol- 
 lowing the regular routine of a school-master's job. He found 
 time additionally, however, to serve as chairman of a committee 
 to revise blank forms for elementary school system, and for the 
 year ending with June to act as President of the Springfield 
 Eudcational Club, the social and professional organization of 
 the eighty school men of the city. Work was varied by hikes 
 amid the environs of Springfield during autumn days, a couple 
 of trips to Boston, and the annual summer migration, with fam- 
 ily, to Round Pond, Me., where there were eight weeks of real 
 life in the open, — tennis, swimming, boating, and the pleasures 
 of simple cottage life. 
 
 K. Beal Kenneth as teacher of the Mechanic Arts High 
 
 School has drawn his salary, with the exception 
 of sick leave for a fortnight and given in return full measure of 
 service, and for his second promotional worked up a paper on 
 "Reading for First and Second Year High School Boys". 
 Though Kenneth thinks "research" is too big a word to cover 
 such a paper, and though it was done more than a year ago, 
 still as we did not get it before, we are going to mention it. 
 Kenneth's other activities, as poet, as man, for the year reach 
 their climax in the magical word "Harwich", and are summed 
 up in the following prose lyric of country life, by Kenneth him- 
 self, written October 11, 1915: 
 
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Dear George: May and I have solemnly sworn to get our duty 
 to you off our consciences, and she has finished her stint before I have. 
 I am going to accept your suggestion and add to my rather disappoint- 
 ingly commonplace replies to the questionnaire a few facts about our 
 summer. 
 
 In the first place, we concluded last winter that whatever happened 
 we must get out of our routine surroundings for the summer, both 
 for our own and for the children's sakes. So we kept our eyes on 
 the real estate columns of the daily papers. Presently we struck what 
 sounded too good to be true, a quite low-priced cottage, furnished, 
 with better than an acre and a half of land, for sale in Harwich on 
 very easy payments. Well, everything had to be "easy," I can assure 
 you, to give us any prospect of swinging it, but also we were inflexible 
 on the need of swinging it. So, receiving an encouraging reply from 
 the agent when I wrote him, I took the morning train the following 
 Saturday (early in March) for the Cape. The proposition proved 
 more attractive even than I had dared to hope, we closed the deal, the 
 deed was made out to my wife on her birthday, and with the two older 
 boys we made a pilgrimage of joy to view the place. 
 
 It was one of those rare middle March days, and the "winter of 
 our discontent was over." The odorous pine woods, the open stretches 
 of country between, the restful spaces about the "little red house" at 
 the corner of the old town roads, the fantastic whiteness of the silver- 
 leaf trees in front, and the shapely masses of willows and lilacs be- 
 hind, with the clear bright sparkling blue of flooded bogs some dis- 
 tance back, the quaintly paneled latch doors with tiny lights of glass 
 above, the curious but tempting miscellany of furniture, the little steep 
 front stairs, the tiny round "Cape Cod cellar", the two fire-places with 
 swinging cranes, the first lunch of sandwiches and crackers, with water 
 from our own driven well, while we sat about a crackling blaze upon 
 our own hearthstone, these and a hundred other indescribable feelings 
 made that day of March a memorable day in our lives. One of the 
 blind alleys of life suddenly opened, and our gaze on the future was 
 steadied by a long free look down forbidden vistas. 
 
 Our summer met every expectation. For many, the place would seem 
 disappointing, because a mile or so from the beach, no excitement, no 
 "movies," no gaiety. But we had what we wanted. The boys roamed 
 at will over fields and through woods, interviewed snakes, bees, hornets, 
 and butterflies, picked "the first ripe strawberry out of the wood," made 
 seats in the willows, kept the glasses filled with flowers, and their own 
 faces full of brightness and color. They did the dishes, helped with 
 the washing and sweeping between whiles. Meanwhile May and I 
 cleaned the house from garret to cellar. She had to be assured that no 
 bug or animal that is deadly or unneighborly to man had any foothold 
 in our Mansion of Peace. And I did my part by sundry jobs of re- 
 pairing, a new cellar window and frame and part of the cellar wall, 
 
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window puttying, roof ladder, and so on. One morning while May was 
 fetching her coffee in from the kitchen, part of the ceiling fell on her 
 head (on the pug, fortunately) and I had a pleasant experience in 
 stripping the rest of it off for the plasterer. The ice-box sprung a 
 leak and we converted it into a wood-box. 
 
 We made a weekly pilgrimage to the beach, like a family of mid- 
 nineteenth century emigrants, George in his go-cart, across his knees 
 the rolled up tent, Arthur and Malcolm pulling their solid play cart, 
 loaded with food, drink, bathing suits, towels, boats, with scattering 
 informal calls along the road, pauses for new flowers, or longing looks 
 at the skiff in the creek. At last the long, white stretch of quiet beach 
 beneath the pine-covered ridge of the land that Agent Julian sells for 
 neither love nor money, dreaming of metropolitan prices per foot, but 
 keeping them with an expediency of kindness undreamed of by him, 
 for our humble troop to enjoy thereby the wholesome comfort of se- 
 cluded privacy. The hidden poles are pulled from beneath the bushes, 
 and on the strip behind and below high tide level where spring floods 
 had poured the white sand, we set up our tent. Vehicles wheel into 
 position like the supply train of an army, shoes and stockings fly off 
 at new and indescribable angles, the surf pounds in over the protecting 
 bar that makes the water warm and safe. We lie flat on the sand and 
 "feel right well" how the course of life quickens and deepens within us. 
 The children have disappeared a quarter of a mile up the beach and 
 will be back with tales of fishes and eels, crabs and rapids, lugging with 
 them sticks, shells, and precious plunder of the sea. 
 
 But we are back again, the night has shut in, the air is cool. We 
 light the lamp. The streets are dark. The last passing voice of the 
 evening goes. No bell, no call, the uninterrupted quiet of the country 
 night. 
 
 These are but glimpses, fragmentary and imperfect. But I have 
 simply let something of what is warm within pass out on this paper. 
 Courage and hope and ambition revive, and life seems just to have 
 begun. If I were rushing into print, I should have written probably 
 less naturally, but I know you will appreciate and share our delight. 
 Best wishes in every way to you, George. Sincerely, Kenneth Beal 
 
 L. P. Benezet Bennie's life this year has been full. It knew 
 
 sorrow in the death on April 4th of his father, 
 Gustave P. Benezet. Mr. Benezet, Senior's grandfather was 
 known as "The First Grenadier" of the Guard under Napoleon 
 and one of the first to receive the Legion of Honor. G. P. Bene- 
 zet was born in France, May 22, 1843, but came to this country 
 in early manhood and served successfully as superintendent of 
 Hamilton Watch Factory in Lancaster, Pa., of Peoria Watch 
 
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Co., of Illinois Watch Co. at Springfield. From 1890-1913 he 
 was in the jewelry business in Peoria, but since that date had 
 been living with Bennie. It has known joy in the birth of a 
 son Louis, born June 29, 1915. . 
 
 Bennie has been five years now at LaCrosse. The school 
 report of this year procured by the secretary shows up some of 
 the things that Bennie has accomplished in that time. He has 
 increased grade school average enrollment 500 and jumped the 
 high school from 506 to 947, inaugurated kindergarten to take 
 care of half the children formerly crowding primary grades, 
 established ungraded rooms, special help periods, policy of pro- 
 moting children as soon as ability is shown to do work of next 
 grade, put in a system of promotion by subjects, all moves to 
 advance the backward pupil. He has rewritten courses of study 
 twice, lessened tardiness by 1400 cases, 50%, likewise truancy, 
 dropped tardiness of teachers from 206 to 153 by requiring them 
 to account to principals, reduced cases of corporal punishment 
 from 60 to 9, inaugurated a system of interchange of kinder- 
 garten and first grade for last two months of each semester, 
 thereby accelerating remarkably first grade work. He estab- 
 lished summer continuation school, first with tuition, reducing 
 tuition and finally this year getting it free. The result was an 
 enrollment of 1324, 615 taking advance work, 402 review work 
 with extraordinary beneficial results. This year he had all 
 grades charted not only for over age, normal and under age 
 data, but for additional data of rapid, normal, slow progress on 
 a rigid one year basis, the last three factors being his own inno- 
 vation with respect to said charts, so that each teacher knows the 
 history of her class. Results — rapid progress has increased 
 12.1% to 20.8% slow progress shrunk from 37.8% to 36.1%, 
 normal progress fell 50.1% to 43.1%. He has done the same 
 thing for high schools and found that nearly half the pupils are 
 over age in spite of the fact that 38% have made rapid prog- 
 ress. He has succeeded in reducing the tendency to drop out of 
 high school at end of second year so that now one-half entering 
 stay through to the finish, the best showing in the state. A live 
 Parent and Teachers' Association, an Alumni Association get- 
 ting scholarship funds for collegiate education, Junior High 
 
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Schools and now a complete advocacy of year round school 
 which meets the present sociological and economic changes and 
 shall turn out high school graduates at sixteen, are some of the 
 things he has done and wishes to do. It's no dry-as-rust report, 
 but a marvellous handling of statistical data and thinking. 
 
 Besides the above, the first of the year saw him hard at 
 work finishing a "History of the United States", which is now 
 in use in LaCrosse in manuscript form, later studying European 
 History and economics. He has written a "History of Govern- 
 ment and War in Europe" for seventh and eighth grades, pub- 
 lished by Scott Foresman & Co. On February 22-26, he was in 
 attendance at the meeting of the National Educational Associa- 
 tion at Cincinnati. He was the enthusiastic particle at a 
 luncheon given at the Hotel Gibson by Morrill '97 to the twenty 
 Dartmouth men in attendance which included Edson '78, Bick- 
 ford 78, Hilton '90, Patey '98, Young '01, Foster, Parker '04, 
 so Patey reports. Before nine different audiences he has lec- 
 tured on the "Causes of the War", and on November 3rd, he 
 addressed the faculty and students of the Milwaukee Normal 
 School. You can see there was no chance for a vacation. The 
 only days away from work were a trip to Iowa investigating the 
 State Board of Education at the special request of Governor 
 Phillips of Wisconsin. 
 
 H. J. Berger "Hen" Berger became editor of the American 
 
 Stationer on July 1. Some years ago he held the 
 same position, so this is a return to a "first love". 
 
 C. W. Bonney Charles has worked hard. Besides his practice, 
 
 the course in Applied Anatomy which he gave 
 at Jefferson Medical College required a great deal more time and 
 effort than anticipated. But it was a decided success and having 
 been thoroughly systematized last year, will be easier this year. 
 He has made also a study of cancer of the jaw at the Philadel- 
 phia Hospital where he has a service, and is about to publish 
 a paper upon the research in the American Journal of Surgery. 
 Another recent paper of his was "The Preparatory Treatment 
 for Prostatectomy" Interstate Medical Journal, September, 1915. 
 
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He only got a short vacation. But the work all brings its 
 reward, not only in accomplishment, but in faculty advancement. 
 
 A. W. Boston Bert reports that he has "kept moving" in his 
 
 profession this year. The phrase seems very 
 "pat" for the work of a Principal of a high school; also for the 
 course of home study he has been at, and his vacation motoring 
 up and down the highways of Maine. 
 
 A. H. Brown "A. H." has sold one and a quarter million dol- 
 
 ars worth of Studebaker autos this last year. 
 Business frequently takes him to Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane, 
 there was a trip to San Francisco in December, 1914, and Chi- 
 cago in June, 1915. He is a special traffic officer, Chairman of 
 Membership Committee — Rotary Club, and was Chairman of 
 Portland Ad Club luncheon, Automobile Day last Spring. He 
 didn't get away for vacation until September 26, which found 
 him en route to Sol Due Hot Springs, Olympic Mts., with his 
 family, as the following letter which is too interesting to omit, 
 indicates : — 
 
 Friend George: — Am enclosing replies to your questions and am 
 answering while en route to the Olympic Mountains, Washington, with 
 my family on a vacation. 
 
 Am sorry to say I have not been to the Fairs, nor have I seen any 
 '99 men out here in the past year. It has been a great tourist year, 
 however, and a great many Easterners have returned from California 
 via Portland, Seattle, and in some cases gone through to Vancouver, 
 
 B. C, to go home over the Canadian Pacific. Our civic organizations 
 have entertained thousands of tourists, and I have contributed not a 
 little of my personal time in that direction. While the Panama Exposi- 
 tion has proven wonderful and a paying proposition, still the Pacific 
 Northwest has proven a much stronger attraction to many tourists than 
 California on account of its more delightful summer climate, and its 
 superior scenery. 
 
 I had the pleasure of entertaining Dr. and Mrs. Ernest F. Nichols 
 here last fall while they were on a tour of the Pacific Coast, and took 
 them out on the new Columbia River Highway, incidentally putting them 
 over some roads, the like of which they had never before seen. Mrs. 
 Nichols paid me the compliment of calling me "the man who tamed the 
 motor car". Dr. Walter T. Sumner '98 was appointed Bishop of the 
 
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Episcopal Diocese of Oregon last winter, as perhaps you know. Husel- 
 ton '01 and 1 welcomed him on behalf of Dartmouth upon the arrival 
 of his train. He has been excellently received here and is highly 
 regarded. Our Alumni Association holds a noon luncheon monthly 
 at the Portland Hotel. I am the only '99 man here and attend when- 
 ever I can. 
 
 My business duties cover the management of the sale of Studebaker 
 automobiles in Oregon, Washington, Northern Idaho, and Western 
 Montana, also all of Alaska. I guess this is about the biggest territory 
 any man in any business in this country controls. In addition to busi- 
 ness duties, I am active in City Government work, in the Chamber of 
 Commerce, Rotary Club, Automobile Dealers' Association, and Auto- 
 mobile Club. I took an active part in our municipal election last spring 
 when we put over a bond issue of $1,250,000 for good roads. 
 
 I average to get as far East as Detroit twice a year, my last trip 
 was in June last, but my trips are so hurried I get practically no time to 
 go way back or to spend any time on social matters. Although my 
 headquarters are Portland, I travel considerable throughout the North- 
 west, and am quite familiar with all this section, so if any one wants 
 any information I will gladly tell them what I can. 
 
 This is a great country, it's worth seeing, but is worth more to live 
 in, and help build up. Come out and see it some summer, and tell the 
 rest the same. The latch string is out, and I'll give you all the best ride 
 in the best car built. We have Suffrage for women, pure water, won- 
 derful climate, fertile soil, unsurpassed scenery, and are rapidly devel- 
 oping excellent roads, and as a by-word to the Salubrians — both Oregon 
 and Washington go dry in 1916, so all will then be safe and sane. 
 
 With kindest personal regards to you and every other '99-er, and 
 with best wishes for the continued success and prosperity of every man 
 in '99, I remain, Yours very truly, "A. H." Brown. 
 
 N. P. Brown Since January 1, "N. P." has been First Asst. 
 
 Atty. General of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
 chusetts with a palatial office at the State House, right on the 
 top of Beacon Hill. He has been Trustee of the Parlin Memo- 
 rial Library since 1903, President of Everett Board of Trade 
 since 1912, President Mystic Valley Waterways Association 
 since 1913, and Director on Finance Committee, Everett Trust 
 Co., but we didn't know it. In addition he still practices law. 
 He spent July in Hanover, the family were there July and 
 August, and "N. P." went up for week ends in August. He 
 had the Professor Hawes' house — old Elm House, and the fol- 
 lowing agreeable schedule of living: forenoon, golf with his 
 
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oldest daughter, or Professor Dixon, or his son Billy ; afternoon, 
 tennis ; evening, billiards or social calls. A sprained ankle, ob- 
 tained at tennis, broke up the schedule, and he went for a short 
 auto trip through Eastern New York, Burlington, through the 
 Hero Islands and around Lakes Champlain and George. In 
 October he was invited by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
 Co. to be their guest on their Annual Field Day trip to Rich- 
 mond, and spoke at the banquet given by them to the Richmond 
 Civic Authorities and the Military Organizations, The Light 
 Infantry Blues, The Grays, The Howitzers, at the Jefferson 
 Hotel, Richmond. It was a great banquet. The only other 
 speakers were Congressman Montague, and Governor Stuart 
 of Virginia, Major Bowles of the Blues, Major Ainslee of Rich- 
 mond, Dr. A. A. Berle, Chaplain. "N. P." says, "the trip was 
 most delightful, especially after the speech was off my mind", 
 Since November "N. P." has begun the erection of a house on 
 his lot in Rope Ferry Walk, Hanover. Hunter '01 is the con- 
 tractor, and "N. P." hopes to have it all ready for summer occu- 
 pancy next year. He will need it as a retreat from his strenuous 
 duties, both private and public, when the time comes. 
 
 S. Burns, Jr. "Buck" has been busy bringing out more new- 
 investment issues. September was the biggest 
 month in thirteen years ; notwithstanding that, he says the war 
 has affected him, "made investors timid". His research has 
 been perfecting himself how to sell bonds. His literary produc- 
 tions have been solely advertisements in papers to get the dollar 
 from the investors. His travels consisted in going back and 
 forth to his summer cottage at Lake Okabogi, Iowa, and a motor 
 trip to Minneapolis and Lake country during his vacation. He 
 did plant a garden — "but in his wife's name" — shrewd gentle- 
 man ! Classifies as Treasurer Dartmouth Alumni Association of 
 the Plains, and holds the "honor" of a "respected citizen". 
 Doesn't own a summer home, but does own a Cadillac, and also 
 rows a boat on the lake. The only '99 man he has seen was 
 Jack Ash "enroute by auto west. He came through here last 
 spring at the time of the heavy rains and seemed to be happy and 
 prosperous. He and his wife had their five children with them 
 
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in their Hudson and spent most of their nights in camping out, 
 and on particularly rainy nights would settle down in district 
 schoolhouses. 1 believe he or Mrs. Ash are related to Mr. Shook, 
 the wholesale jeweler here in town. His (i. e., Jack's) check is 
 good". The only '99 news he knows is the tragic news that his 
 own hair is turning gray. To the question what degrees do you 
 possess, he replies "none by Dartmouth, title of father by two 
 children", and to the question whether he would attend an after- 
 the-game supper, he says, with a pathetic ring between the 
 words, "yes, in spirit". 
 
 H. S. Carr Homer Stephen has kept at a steady grind. Has 
 
 not been able to get away anywhere this year. 
 This notwithstanding that Niles, Mich., is a fairly healthy place 
 as places go. Homer says he hasn't seen a member of the class 
 in years, and but one Dartmouth man in centuries. But did he 
 enjoy the Quindecennial Report? "You bet I did", he wrote 
 Barney. He was hoping to come east this fall and be at the 
 Penn game and supper afterward — a rousing welcome awaited 
 him, but he w r as unable to make it. Besides his practice, Carr is 
 pension examiner. 
 
 P. W. Carson Kit is one of the three not heard from. 
 
 F. W. Cavanaugh Between law in Worcester and football in 
 
 Hanover, "Cav" sometimes feels that he is well 
 acquainted with those old hags, Miss Scylla and Miss Charybdis. 
 However, taking all together, he waxes well on it, and his family 
 multiplies. A new daughter, Rosemary, was born January 11, 
 1915. At any rate, he has this year allowed himself to be bound 
 for another three years to the job of turning out winning teams 
 for Dartmouth. This is no small task, yet he does it and is reck- 
 oned one of the best coaches in the country. He is also devel- 
 oping fame as an orator. At the time of the football rush, last 
 fall, Palaeopitus decreed the sophomores to have been victors, 
 but Cav, in a clever speech afterwards, won the hearts of 1919 
 by commending the first-year men for their pluck, saying if he 
 had had a vote it would have been in their favor. The New 
 
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York Alumni heard of it, and he is to do the "heavy" at the 
 Dartmouth Banquet there in January. His travels during the 
 year, like the trip to the New York Banquet, have been inci- 
 dental to football, trips to Philadelphia and New York for the 
 football conferences, and the numerous journeys with the team. 
 He did get away from football once and go to Block Island for 
 a two weeks' real vacation with his family. 
 
 H. B. Chase Hawley kept school just the same regardless of 
 
 of the war, and tried to earn his salary. Then 
 when vacation time came he turned around and tried to spend 
 it. In his Overland he toured New England for pleasure, even 
 made Hanover twice during the summer. To us this would 
 seem magna cum. To Hawley it was only recompense for hav- 
 ing contracted and been through a siege of scarlet fever during 
 the winter. "The oldest man on record with a child's disease", 
 as he puts it. 
 
 T. W. Chase Tedo's year has been as usual, stuck to job, try- 
 ing to increase production, lower cost and im- 
 prove output. He's done pretty well at it, too. As a change he 
 got in a few days' fishing in the spring and a week's auto trip in 
 the fall. He has made Hanover several times. He has his 
 mother's cottage at Kennebunk Beach for a summer retreat, but 
 of late years has used it very little. Besides an auto "Tedo" is 
 one of few that keeps also a "driving horse". That is probably 
 due to Vermont influence. He says it can rip off a mile in fifteen 
 minutes, but Franko, whom Tedo sees occasionally, thinks it does 
 better than that. 
 
 J. D. Child "Ted" pulled up stakes in the South at the same 
 
 time John Ash did, and transferred himself to 
 Corvallis, Oregon. He and John have organized the Builders' 
 Supply Co., and deal in cement, lime, plaster, and all the hundred 
 and one things that you have to have, but of which you never 
 dream, when you come to building or rebuilding a house for 
 yourself. "Ted" is Secretary and Treasurer of the concern. 
 
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Corvallis is a lively looking place from its photo, which Ash sent 
 the Secretary. While John was doing his Lewis and Clarke 
 stunt across the plains of Nebraska, "Ted" had already preceded 
 him by Pullman, and was getting both John's household gods 
 and their business Penates in readiness, so that the President 
 and Manager could go immediately to work when the across-the- 
 plains auto hove in. Five months later Ted writes that he "is 
 very much pleased with this part of the country". 
 
 G. G. Clark The secretary's activities have not been of the 
 
 class report order. The only thing that he has 
 done that might be of interest has been the alterations at the old 
 family homestead in Plymouth, N. H., upon which he has spent 
 a great deal of the time, but these have been so constant that 
 they are the last things he wants to discuss. A pleasant happen- 
 ing growing out of the work, however, were the calls, through 
 accident and unexpected by either party, from Joy and Luke, 
 also by Silver, while the secretary was in Plymouth. 
 
 T. Cogswell Another exception to the rule is noted : 
 
 Cogswell Hill Farm, October 8, 1915 
 
 Dear Friend Clark: — I have just gotten home from a season of 
 nine months, and hasten to answer your letter of recent date. 
 
 My profession has been through some pretty tough sledding during 
 the past year, but it is looking up now, and I expect to have a prosperous 
 and exceedingly pleasant season. I put in the entire nine months last year 
 in Vermont state, being located in permanent stock in Barre, Vt, during 
 the winter, and after the granite strike was declared I went on a little 
 circuit stock tour, playing in twelve towns, one night in each, every 
 two weeks, staying on the circuit for twenty-six weeks. We took in 
 Randolph, Wells River, but never Hanover. I saw Lyster in Wells 
 River and Dubois in Randolph several times. John has a grand pair of 
 Morgan horses, which he drives at the fair or races. I expect to return 
 to the same circuit next April and be there until the following November. 
 Most of the towns are small, and I have been out in the open all sum- 
 mer. It is one of the pleasantest seasons I have ever had in the theatri- 
 cal business. 
 
 I am still single — my own boss — and see no prospect of having to 
 worry for fear my children will grow up to be "actors". I still keep the 
 farm here in Gilmanton, where I shall be pleased to have any of the mem- 
 
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bers of '99 call and look over the finest view of lakes and mountains in 
 the state. The fire of last May did not reach our place, but left the vil- 
 lage in a very bad condition. 
 
 If possible, I shall plan to get into Boston at the "Round Up", but 
 being obliged to work nights it is rather difficult. 
 
 Had a nice long talk with Dubois in Randolph, Vt., and he cer- 
 tainly is enthusiastic over the fifteenth reunion last year. 
 
 Best of luck to you and to all the fellows of '99. If I play in Bos- 
 ton, come and see me "act on the stage". Sincerely, Thomas Cogswell- 
 
 Tom is just the same Tom, though his great shock of hair 
 is turning iron grey. He surprised the Secretary with a pleas- 
 ant call one morning to express his personal regret, in addition 
 to the foregoing letter, at his inability to get to after-the-game 
 supper. He is acting old men's parts, i. e., making his iron 
 gray hair work, in the Nellie Gill Company. The company has 
 a circuit of Quincy, Taunton, Plymouth, and through south- 
 eastern cities of the state. This is to be his fall season ; in 
 spring he goes back again to Vermont, and then when summer 
 comes, he expects to loaf again on his old homestead, which he 
 still keeps, and "it pays for itself", he says. For amusement he 
 will drive his farm horse or follow his one hobby and paddle 
 his canoe on the river. 
 
 W. J. Colbert Bill is on sick leave from his position of Dean 
 
 of the College of Liberal Arts, Manila, P. I. 
 He came to the United States in the latter part of 1914, to see 
 if he couldn't regain his health. He stayed in Berkeley during 
 the winter season. He saw the San Francisco Fair a week be- 
 fore it opened, but thinks other fellows could tell more about it 
 than he. Then he came to New York. At Commencement time, 
 he went to Hanover where Dartmouth conferred upon him the 
 Honorary Degree of A.M., and he saw Atwood, Gannon, Mus- 
 grove, Richardson, and Storrs, and helped 1900 do a bit of 
 reunioning. He stayed a part of the summer in Hanover to get 
 Dr. Gile's view of himself, later spent some time at his old home 
 in Danvers, and since last fall has been at the Sidis Institute at 
 Portsmouth. lie has had his tips and downs. He writes October 
 27, "I was getting on well in Hanover and later in Danvers. 
 
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Then I decided that I needed the best treatment, and I was told 
 that this is the best. 1 like it and I was getting on famously until 
 about six days ago when I endeavored to break or lose each 
 golf ball I had, at one fell blow. My muscles were sore next 
 day. But I persevered. The doctor is now the only one I allow 
 to address (keeping to my golf terms you see) that arm. I'll 
 be in fine shape in three weeks, in good shape in the spring, and 
 ready for anything by July". Notwithstanding ill health, Bill 
 has been investigating university administration, school of busi- 
 ness administration and taken some courses in play writing and 
 journalism. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the 
 Columbia Club, Manila, still, but this fall he sold a couple of 
 houses he owned there, and has now only a place to hang his 
 hat. Guy Corey drops in once in a while to see him at the Sidis 
 Institute, and to chat about the fellows. It was a keen disap- 
 pointment not to be able to come to see everyone at the supper 
 after the Penn game, but the doctor forbade, and Bill acquiesced. 
 
 H. C. Collar "Herb's" letter is better than any compilation 
 
 the secretary could make. It's dated Buffalo, 
 N. Y., September 28, 1915: 
 
 Dear George : — The list of questions proves to be, not a question- 
 naire, but an inquisition. In its compilation, the committee's courage 
 may have outrun their discretion, but no matter ; you gave us enough 
 to think about. Of my answers, some are perhaps "impertinent", more 
 are probably "trifling", and all are undoubedly "inapplicable" to the 
 needs of the case. However, I will put them into an incoherent, dis- 
 coursive lump, and possibly you can winnow the categorical material 
 necessary for your purposes. 
 
 Your kindly suggestions about getting into the proper atmosphere, 
 preparatory to attacking the momentous task, don't seem to fit in with 
 my surroundings, just at the moment; for my doctor won't let me smoke 
 a pipe, my wife has gone to the theatre, and the best I can do for a 
 fireside is an ugly and useless (at this time of year) gas-log. "Can you 
 beat it?" 
 
 Presumablv there is in the archives of the class documentary evi- 
 dence to the effect that I was lawfully or legally (whichever is the 
 proper term) married in the year 1901. Otherwise the two children 
 properly ascribed to me — Verbum sap. 
 
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As to business or professional changes during the year, 1 have 
 preserved the status quo (which expression Champ Clark once used in 
 a campaign speech in referring to the then position of the Republican 
 party. An ardent old Democrat standard-bearer interpreted it to a less 
 (!) enlightened by-stander as a "hell of a fix".). Well, let it go at 
 that. Should I have long life in my present capacity, I am assured of a 
 fairly busy one; for my multifarious duties include the revision of the 
 card catalog of the library, a bit of work which, at the present rate of 
 procedure, will be sufficient to keep my staff and myself reasonably 
 occupied for the remainder of our natural lives. 
 
 You bet the war has affected me. How? Right here (business of 
 slapping right-hand pocket). Why, I was right in the midst of trans- 
 lating for publication in this country a most charming and sympatheti- 
 cally written book on "US" by a German, when Europe was suddenly 
 converted into a shambles and the Lusitania was sunk. Such a book, 
 in the present temper of the American public would be worth about the 
 premium on a copper two-cent piece. Do I need to expatiate on the 
 situation. Everybody is affected by the war, directly or indirectly. Its 
 oft-repeated horrors have visibly affected my honored father, now in 
 his eighty-third year. 
 
 Traveling for pleasure is an expensive luxury and is not for the 
 likes of me. So I didn't go to San F. or San D. But a friend of mine, 
 formerly of Massachusetts, now a citizen of California, saw both fairs, 
 and he says San D. has the call. Testimony to the contrary wouldn't 
 necessarily make the friend out a liar. I did one journey, one incident 
 of which may not be without its interest. 
 
 On the 27th of August I passed through Norwich, Vt., in my pri- 
 vate car! I say my private car, and you shall judge whether I speak 
 literally or figuratively. I was on my way to visit my father in a small 
 town in northern Vermont, and on this particular day, a rarely beautiful 
 one for the season, I rode up the Connecticut valley from Springfield. 
 As those dearly familiar views appeared, I thought of the years (twelve 
 to be exact) since I had been that way. Ben Marshall was in the car, 
 but it was not his car. It was mine ; for over the door was the 
 number "1899". 
 
 The greater part of my vacation was spent among the hills of Ver- 
 mont, in the charming little village of Greensboro. I met there the god- 
 father of Gerould's boy. It was there, too, that I heard a bit of gosip 
 about Jim Rich which I am not going to repeat here, and I also heard 
 some very nice things said about him which I may have the pleasure of 
 telling him in person some time. It must be a mighty small place where 
 you can't connect up somehow with Dartmouth '99. 
 
 I had a very pleasant chat with Warren Kendall as he passed 
 through Buffalo, last month, on his way home after trying to sell the 
 Boston and Maine to some Chicago capitalists. Warren looked fat and 
 
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therefore prosperous, and he told me he had a growing ( ?) family. I 
 couldn't look prosperous if I were worth as much as $5. I'm too thin. 
 
 When I had a garden in Holden, Mass., in 1913, the flourishing 
 exuberance of which excited the envy of my neighbors, I had the exer- 
 cise my withered body needed. Since then I have taken none to speak 
 of. Shank's mare furnishes both my locomotive force and my out-door 
 recreation. I have neither time nor money to indulge in a daily two or 
 three hours of golf like some of the "malefactors of great wealth" in 
 our class. 
 
 During the late heated term, I was in Boston for a few days, but 
 had no opportunity to drop in on any '99-ers. There is small chance, 
 as I see it, that I shall be that way again for many moons. If the pro- 
 jected after-the-game supper is seasoned with the sauce of a 30 or 40 to 
 victory for us, what a splendiferous occasion it will be. Good-bye and 
 good luck. Herb Collar. 
 
 Commencement Atwood, N. P. Brown, Colbert, Gannon, Rich- 
 Ninety-niners ardson, Storrs, and Tibbetts were the only ones 
 
 present at Commencement, 1915. "Hanover 
 was a quiet spot with the memories of 1914 shouting at you from 
 every corner". 
 
 G. E. Corey Guy's law office is now 73 Congress St., Ports- 
 mouth, though his residence address remains the 
 same, 464 Middle St. "Regular routine" is his report for the 
 year, and no vacation. He does send this of interest, October 
 21, 1915: — "Last Saturday I visited Bill Colbert who is under 
 treatment at the Dr. Sidis' Institute here. He was looking fine 
 and is coming along o. k. His work in the Philippines and the 
 climate was too much for him. We had a great chat. Bill grad- 
 uated in 1900, but you know was originally and is now a '99-er". 
 Guy is interested in the new Dartmouth Alumni Association of 
 Portsmouth, which was formed December 27, at a dinner at the 
 Hotel Rockingham. 
 
 R. E. Croker "Dick" has made an advance this year to a more 
 
 important position in his work. He has been 
 doing research in factory efficiency systems, made one trip to 
 New York. For a vacation he spent a week at Kennebunkport, 
 Maine. Sorry to say he hasn't seen a member of the class dur- 
 ing past year. 
 
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F. J. Crolius "Fritz" is now located with the Carnegie Steel 
 
 Company in Munhall, Pa. He has done some 
 research during the year on the combustion of fuels, results not 
 yet wholly determined. Discussed the subject before a gather- 
 ing of Canadian Scientists at Toronto, Canada. Travels during 
 years have taken him to England, France, Switzerland, Belgium, 
 and Canada. They were not vacation travels, though. He has 
 run across Barney, Kendall, and Varney during the year. No- 
 vember 11, 1915, he writes: — "Sorry indeed not to enjoy an 
 evening with the crowd (i. e., supper) but don't expect to be east 
 again for a year. Extend my best regards to all the boys. Tell 
 them should they pass this way to drop in and look over the 
 busiest spot in U. S. A. Cordially, F. J. Crolius". 
 
 C. N. Currier "Cac's" duties as foreman of the Gray & Davis 
 
 Inc. keep him pretty busy. He doesn't believe 
 in all work, however. He has a twenty-six foot cabin dory that 
 he steers over the placid waters of the Merrimac and Parkers 
 River. "Sometimes he steers it into a mud bank". He spent all 
 his vacation on the "puff boat". He writes, November 23 : — "I 
 was in hopes to be with you after the game (Penn) but business 
 prevented. Remember me to all the boys. Sincerely, C. N. 
 Currier". 
 
 C. E. Cushman "Cush" has "worked like the devil". His own 
 
 words. It's research all the time with him, still 
 a-working at osteopathy. He has made two trips to Randolph, 
 Vt., and has done a great deal of motoring through Illinois, 
 Indiana, New England, and New York. While in Randolph he 
 used to run over occasionally to play golf on the Hanover links, 
 a la President Wilson. It was bully fun, he adds. These were 
 his vacation days. He has only seen Dubois, Kendall, and Rich- 
 ardson, but wishes the fellows would get the habit more of look- 
 ing him up in Chicago. "Rab has moved to Fresno and says 
 he is behaving himself. Brock Gilson, 1900, weighs 294 pounds", 
 he reports. "Hoorah for 1900" from 1899. 
 
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Dartmouth Dartmouth men, like other collegiate men, like 
 
 Dinners and to eat their way through the long winter. The 
 
 Diners first big gathering of the 1914-1915 season was 
 
 a rousing dinner tendered a ninety-niner, to wit 
 "Cav", at the Hotel Bancroft, Worcester, December 29, 1914. 
 Two hundred and fifty of Cavanaugh's friends, chiefly Dart- 
 mouth men, were there to honor him. F. W. Walker, the only 
 other '99-er in or near Worcester, was there to represent ninety- 
 nine. 
 
 On a count of noses, it appears that fifty-nine members of 
 the class, i. e., forty-six per cent, attended these Dartmouth 
 alumni gatherings during the year. At the big Boston dinner 
 were Allen, Atwood, N. P. Brown, Clark, Cavanaugh. H. H. 
 Dearborn, Drew, Donahue, Hodgkins, Johnston, Kendall, 
 Lynch, Richardson, Rogers ; at Chicago, Cushman attended ; at 
 Morrill's Dartmouth Round-Up in Cincinnati Benezet ''led the 
 singing" ; at Cleveland H. A. Miller played the part of an "old 
 alumnus" ; at Detroit Hoskins showed up. Greenwood and Wat- 
 son were at the Hartford dinner. Parker was in attendance at 
 Dartmouth Night at Hanover. Bob Johnston was toastmaster 
 and Hopkins and Folsom assisted him at Manchester. Hop- 
 kins and Sturtevant joined in the dinner at Keene. At Minne- 
 apolis Ford got his "Dartmouth winter eat". About the '99 
 table at New York gathered A. M. Abbott, H. B. Chase, Gan- 
 non, Leavitt, Prescott, Varney, Whittier. At Omaha Burns 
 turned up to represent '99. At Philadelphia it was Bonney and 
 Lane. At Rochester, N. Y., it was Nye. At Springfield, Bar- 
 stow was the man, and at Worcester it was Cavanaugh and 
 Walker, and way out at Portland, Oregon, A. H. Brown was 
 the one to foregather, Northward at Seattle, it was Woodman, 
 and then dropping down that long, bold coast line you find at 
 San Francisco, Sears to be the '99-er in the crowd. It's mighty 
 good to be just the '99-er in the crowd. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing, twenty-seven attended the 
 March Round-Up and twenty-nine brought themselves and their 
 wives to the supper after the Pennsylvania game in Boston. For 
 many of these it was their third "eat" at least, and for some of 
 
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them the score would be higher, for the Dartmouth Club Smoker, 
 the Dartmouth Pop night at Symphony Hall had attracted many. 
 If luncheon club, Thayer School, and senior society get-togethers 
 were allowed to be counted, it would be a much mooted ques- 
 tion what '99-er had the biggest score. But after all it isn't 
 these large gatherings that grip you. It's rather the picture left 
 by Pearl's Round-Up of five about his fireplace in Orono and 
 the picture that springs up from Staley's answer, "None out- 
 side of a little 'home smoker' attended by my wife, the three 
 boys and myself at which we read the last ninety-nine class 
 report". 
 
 Dartmouth Convincing evidence that things are moving at 
 
 Itself Hanover are the facts that it has a "one way 
 
 street", (autoists are hereby notified that they 
 must take the right-hand roadway on street south side of cam- 
 pus) and also a local dime messenger service inaugurated by 
 the Western Union. "Phone the office and a 'townie' will be 
 furnished as promptly as possible to run your errand". Think 
 of the comic possibilities if only "Bob and Hoss" were there to 
 do the 'phoning! Such are, however, only barometric humors 
 prefacing the serious changes that we have thought would inter- 
 est ninety-niners. 
 
 A freshman class for 1914 of 445 has been raised to 486 
 this fall, total enrollment 1470. The year 1914-15 and fall 1915 
 have seen a new organization called the Arts, launched to unite 
 and coordinate the cultural interests with club rooms in Rob- 
 inson, starting with a membership of forty undergraduates and 
 thirty members of the faculty. It started the ball rolling with 
 an exhibit of paintings by Mr. W. Adams and since has been 
 the means of introducing a number of noted men to the student 
 body, several art exhibits and host to visiting notables. 
 "The Dartmouth Dramatic Movement" of wider aspect than a 
 mere student movement has shown its true solidity by forging 
 straight on minus its original leaders. "The Next Step", Shaw's 
 "Arms and Man", Galworthy's "Pigeon", the "Second Shepherd 
 Play", four one-act sketches by undergrads performed by fresh- 
 
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men are to its credit since the 1915 year opened. The new stage 
 craft has come into the movement, too, with a bound forward 
 through the genius and cleverness of a senior. The Christian 
 Association has moved from Bartlett Hall to College Hall. The 
 Dartmouth Profit Sharing Association, a cooperative store, sug- 
 gestive of Patey and Graham, but supposed to be really profit 
 sharing, has been set up. Jimmy Haggerty, after twenty-five 
 years' satisfying student hunger, has left town. The students 
 and faculty raised $2300 for Dartmouth Ambulance Corps and 
 sent two cars to France, which were manned by student volun- 
 teers, one of whom was killed recently. Hallgarten, once teem- 
 ing with '99's double-decker beds, is again a dormitory after long 
 winters of idleness. Cav has brought the football team through 
 a creditable season which promises much for next year. The 
 Outing Club has grown and prospered under the tutelage of its 
 patron saint, Rev. J. E. Johnson '66. Through his generosity, 
 the distance between the Cube Mt. and Mooselauke has been 
 halved by the acquisition of a cabin site on Armington Pond and 
 a new ski jump, toboggan slide and observation terraces built 
 in the Vale of Tempe for the carnival will give that event the 
 look of real Norway, and by his gift of $10,000 as a "Founda- 
 tion" for the Carnival that event has been given ease of mind 
 and assuredness. 
 
 The Commencement sing-out has been changed from a Fri- 
 day, as we knew it, to a Sunday vesper service compulsory to the 
 whole college, and an alumni torchlight procession has been con- 
 cocted to get some Venetian glamour into the generally prosaic 
 Tuesday night of Commencement. Another Commencement 
 event was the dedication of the Stone Tower, by the old pine 
 stump, as Bartlett Tower in honor of President Bartlett, its 
 conceiver. 
 
 Dartmouth deaths have been those of Mr. H. H. H. Langill, 
 the "court photographer" from time immemorial, Prof. F. A. 
 Sherman, whom '99 remembers so pleasantly, Mr. Mathewson 
 of the Board of Trustees, and Mr. W. S. Hammond, Governor 
 of Minneapolis, true Dartmouth men. 
 
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Of the faculty, Prof. J. K. Lord has asked leave to resign, 
 and Mr. C. P. Chase has requested to be relieved of his duties 
 as treasurer. 
 
 Finances, notwithstanding decreased income, aided by in- 
 creased receipts from tuition and careful oversight of expendi- 
 tures, has resulted in the smallest deficit in years, to wit 
 $3,158.40, which was wiped out by the application of funds from 
 the ''Dartmouth Fund under Tucker Foundation". Moors 
 Charity School has been dissolved, and its real and personal 
 property transferred to the college as a trust fund with income 
 applicable to general needs of college. This year the college has 
 to meet the cut from $20,000 to $10,000 in the annual contribu- 
 tion by the state. 
 
 Mr. H. H. Hilton '90 signalized his voluntary retirement as 
 trustee by the generous gift to the college of the golf club 
 grounds which the trustees have named Hilton Field (surveyed 
 over and over again by '99-ers). The class of '85 in honor of 
 its thirtieth reunion brought its contribution to the college ex- 
 chequer up to $10,000 (Ninety-nine goal, too) and the first class 
 to achieve the new ambitions. Henry L. Moore 77 to fill trus- 
 teeship left vacant by Mr. Hilton, Henry B. Thayer 79 vice Mr. 
 Mathewson deceased, E. K. Hall '92, vice Mr. Parkhurst, who 
 has been elected a permanent trustee to succeed Congressman 
 Powers resigned, have been elected trustees. The constitution 
 of the General Alumni Asociation has been changed so that 
 no trustee is eligible for more than two consecutive terms of five 
 years and the constitution of the Alumni Council changed so that 
 no councillor shall be eligible for more than two terms of three 
 years. Both changes were made at the suggestion of the 
 Alumni Council. A further suggestion disqualifying a member 
 of the council for election as trustee was voted down by the 
 alumni. Nominations for trustees are to be made hereafter by 
 the council. A get-together conference this fall between a com- 
 mittee of the council and a committee of the trustees, figuratively 
 with their legs under the same table, to consider the financial 
 and educational relation of Dartmouth College and New Hamp- 
 shire, extent to which, advisable, scholarships be granted in excess 
 
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of income from funds specifically given for that purpose, tht 
 definite educational intention upon the part of the college, was 
 far-reaching in its possible developments. This with the raising 
 of about $7,000 for the first year of the Alumni Fund on the 
 Tucker Foundation tends to warrant the Alumni Magazine in 
 characterizing the year as that of the "Alumni Awakening". 
 We would call it "Alumni Re-awakening". 
 
 H. H. Dearborn "Hungry Higgins" is still physician in-extra- 
 ordinary to the township of Becket. Profes- 
 sionally "things have been the same as usual", that is, folks 
 have had the average amount of ills, and youngsters have eaten 
 the usual number of green apples, notwithstanding that the war 
 by raising the price of drugs should have made them more 
 thoughtful and careful. "Hungry" realizes this, because he has 
 been honored by the town with the office of School Physician. 
 He is also member of Board of Health. He did run away in 
 summer time for a little vacation in New Hampshire. Novem- 
 ber 6, 1915, he writes, "Being in this part of the state my 
 associations with other men is confined largely to attendance at 
 Dartmouth gatherings. The Boston Alumni meeting which 
 I attended last winter was larger and more pretentious than I 
 expected, and all together a very fine affair. I have been trying 
 for some time to see my way clear to get down to the game and 
 dinner today, but could not bring it about. Kindest regards to 
 all. Yours very truly, H. Hale Dearborn". 
 
 J. J. Dearborn Here is a good letter dated Milford, January 
 
 19, 1916, from "Jesse James":— 
 
 My dear Clark: — I have received your friendly letters and ques- 
 tionnaire of '99, but do not feel that I can fill out the questionnaire be- 
 cause I have not run for any political office or received any honorary 
 degrees since last year. 
 
 You know that I was a non-graduate and always felt that the 
 accent was on the "non", but since leaving college I have received so 
 many friendly letters and kind words from every Dartmouth man I 
 have met that I now have changed my ideas. 
 
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My address is the same as published in last report, in fact, I occupy 
 a position as manager of the Dearborn interests in Milford and inci- 
 dentally care for an invalid mother who has not left her bed for 
 years, so you see I have just one patient. 
 
 One cannot always tell just what space they will fill in this world. 
 Speaking of space, I do occupy some space, for I weigh 223 pounds. I 
 displace a little air, anyway. 
 
 I expected to enclose a check, but cannot at present send one. I 
 have not forgotten the class of '99. Sincerely your classmate, Jesse J. 
 Dearborn. 
 
 Degrees Bill Colbert, Ninety-nine in everything except 
 
 Honorary the date of year in which Dartmouth gave him 
 
 and Earned his first academic degree, is the first member of 
 
 the class to receive an honorary degree. Last 
 Commencement, "William Joseph Colbert, pioneer in the cause of 
 education in the Philippines, who in a career of fourteen years 
 of faithful service has steadily risen to posts of greater respon- 
 sibility and opportunity for wider influence and unselfishness, 
 one who has sacrificed his health and risked his life through 
 devotion to a cause of enlightenment among a backward peo- 
 ple", so spoke President Nichols, was admitted to the degree of 
 Master of Arts. 
 
 Forty-eight other members of the class, over one-third, 
 hold the following advanced degrees, which have been earned : — 
 Asakawa, Ph.D., Yale '02; Atwood, LL.B., Boston Univ. '04; 
 Beal, A.M., Harv. '01 ; Benezet, A.M., Dart. '03 ; Bonney, M.D, 
 Jefferson Med. Coll. '04, Fellow College of Phys., Phila. ; Brown, 
 N. P., LL.B., Harv. '04; Carr, D.M., Univ. Mich., D.M., Ohio 
 Wesleyan Univ. ; Cavanaugh, LL.B., Boston Univ. ; Clark, LL.B., 
 Harv. '02; Colbert, A.M. (Hon.), Dart.'OO; Cushman, D.O.( Oste- 
 opathy) ; Dearborn, H. H., M.D., Harv. '03 ; Donahue, LL.B., 
 Boston Univ. '01 ; Drake, M.D., Harv. '03 ; Drew, LL.B., Harv. 
 '02; Folsom, M.D., Dart. '02; Ford, M.A. (Eng.), Harv. '05; 
 Gerould, B.Litt, Oxon. '01 ; Greenwood, C.E., Thayer School 
 '00; Hardwick, M.D., Harv. '00; Hawkes, LL.B., Boston Univ. 
 '03; Hopkins, M.D., Dart. '03; Hoskins, M.D., Detroit Coll. 
 Medicine '05 ; Hutchinson, C.E., Thayer School '01 ; Hyatt, 
 M.D., CM., McGill '02; Lane, M.D., Medico-Chirug. Coll. '04; 
 
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Leavitt, D.M.D., Harv. '07; Lynch, A.M., Boston Coll. '14; 
 Miller, H. A., A.M., Dart. '02, Ph.D., Harv. '05; Oakes, C.E., 
 Thayer School '00; Parker, M.D., Harv. '03; Payne, D.M.D., 
 Harv. ; Pearl, Ph.D., Univ. Mich. '02 ; Richardson, LL.B., Bos- 
 ton Univ. '02; Sanborn, F. R., M.D., Dart. '02; Sanborn, J. L., 
 C.E., Thayer School '00; Sewall, M.D., Jefferson Med. Coll. '03; 
 Sleeper, LL.B., Boston Univ. '02 ; Smith, C.E., Thayer School 
 '01; Surrey, A.M., Dart. '02; Tootell, A.M., Dart. '00; Varney, 
 LL.B., New York Law School '01 ; Walker, F. A., LL.B., Bos- 
 ton Univ. '01 ; Watson, C.E., Thayer School '00; Whittier, C.E., 
 Thayer School '00; Willard, A.M., Dart. '02, M.A. TO, Ph.D. 
 '12, Yale; Winchester, C.E., Thayer School '00; Woodman, 
 A.M., Dart. '02, Ph.D., Columbia Univ. TO; Woodward, M.D., 
 Harvard '04; and Sears has sufficient credits for a M.A. Educa- 
 tion, Univ. of Cal., but lacks the year's residence required for 
 the degree. 
 
 M. W. Dickey "Killum" has worked a good deal harder and 
 
 earned a little more money this year. War 
 made extra work. November 3, 1915, he writes, "The reason 
 you couldn't get me in West Roxbury is that I have moved, bag 
 and baggage, family and cat, in two auto trucks back to Spring- 
 field. Boston climate didn't agree with my throat, so when I 
 got a chance to come back to the Springfield Union as News 
 Editor of the morning paper, I took it. Sorry I didn't see you 
 before I left Boston, but the change was made in such a hurry 
 that I didn't have time for anything. We moved last Friday 
 (October 29) and I am just recovering". He left Boston 
 Globe November 1, and on same day became News Editor of 
 Springfield Union, morning edition. Though he got two weeks' 
 vacation in a cottage at Wells Beach, Maine, during the sum- 
 mer, it has been a strenuous year. 
 
 C. H. Donahue Donny says "nothing out of the ordinary pro- 
 fessionally". Tut-tut. What is ordinary all 
 depends upon point of view. Continuous trial work, bigger and 
 more important cases, the secretary knows has been Donny's 
 
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lot. No vacation, unless you can call such, holding a box party 
 right behind the mayor with Bill Atwood for right bower, at 
 the opening of the big new baseball park and personally paint- 
 ing all the loose implements, machines, tools, appliances, fix- 
 tures and all other personal property about his residence green 
 so he could have more of the college color in sight. In Jan- 
 uary, Donny was put on the executive committee for the big 
 Boston dinner along with other distinguished alumni. At the 
 secretaries' meeting in Hanover, where he proxied for the sec- 
 retary, he was made chairman of a new committee to keep tabs 
 on class secretaries and in September was elected President of 
 the Boston Dartmouth Club. As a "post grad" in secretarial 
 functions he is proving a success. He gets even with the sec- 
 retary by sending endless questionnaires and by marvellous 
 correlations and manipulations of statistics, has got every secre- 
 tary working overtime, speeding up the efficiency of his depart- 
 ment. One of the first things accomplished was completing the 
 college files of class reports, getting gaps in them filled up. 
 
 He has given a number of talks to Dartmouth Associations, 
 one for Bill Greenwood's Hartford Association, and one before 
 the Hyde Park Alumni Association we know of. 
 
 In regard to Donny's visit to Hartford, Greenwood writes 
 interestingly : — 
 
 I'd like to do him justice. If I told you half the good hits he 
 made and half the favorable comments that I have heard about that 
 meeting (of which he was the whole show) and they ever got to Char- 
 lie's eyes and ears, even modest Charlie would dream of a niche in the 
 Hall of Fame. Lo, since we all want to keep him talking and writing 
 and lawyering instead of dreaming, I'll only give you a few facts con- 
 cerning that visit. 
 
 Donny came to Hartford at pretty near the appointed time and I 
 met him at the station. I suggested we walk to the scene of the fes- 
 tivities — the Dartmouth Night Meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Hart- 
 ford. It was the first time that I had ever presided at anything of 
 any moment and I had to walk to keep my feet warm. T had thought 
 of certain things I'd say but when I tried to say them I couldn't, and 
 so when I got through introducing Donny to the club my conceit was 
 bumped, as it has not been since Johnnie Roe flunked me in French. But 
 1 left the whole thing in Donny's hands and he pulled it through glo- 
 riously. 
 
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What he said was like talking a new language to these people 
 in Hartford. I knew Donny and therefore knew what to expect, but 
 the rest didn't, and they got an eye opener as well as a treat. The gist 
 of his remarks was a clear and definite statement of what Dartmouth 
 has done for each of us and what we have not done for Dartmouth. 
 It was bright, it was informal, full of loyalty, class and college spirit, 
 timely and above all it made us feel proud of our college and it set us 
 thinking that none of us had yet paid our debt to our Alma Mater. 
 
 The "banquet" was about as good as a church supper affair, most 
 of us got enough food, but then most of us were not fussy and the 
 consensus of opinion was that everybody got his money's worth "ban- 
 quet" and year's due and all, which is a decided compliment to Charles. 
 
 After the meeting Donny and I beat it for my house where we 
 talked until 3 A. M., then we slept a little and in the morning we started 
 for "down town after Donny had eaten seven white grapes and drank 
 a cup of coffee. 
 
 We had a couple of hours' ride about the city and then we parted 
 at the station. I wish he'd come again. 
 
 There's a glimpse of a post-secretarialism that is worth 
 while. 
 
 P. G. Drake Percy, as one of the two medical men of the 
 
 Germania Life Insurance Co., is kept with his 
 attention right on his business. He still lives up along River- 
 side Drive where he can look out over the pleasant waters of 
 the Hudson. 
 
 P. F. Drew "Pitt's" clients, the Middlesex & Boston R. R., 
 
 Boston Elevated and New England Telephone 
 Co., have kept him busy at trial work all the year. But not- 
 withstanding his continuous "trying" he has been able to keep 
 up his card digest of all the railroad tort cases — to date — make a 
 special study of cases involving damage by lightning, in its 
 relation to the telephone and street railway properties and in 
 conjunction with them, also make a study of the matter of 
 accident prevention through employee discipline and compensa- 
 tion. Upon this last subject he has given a number of talks 
 before employee organizations. "Pitt" is pretty proud this year 
 of the record for eggs and prize-winning cockerels produced by 
 
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his pen of Rhode Island Reds, though he hasn't dared to count 
 up the cost. But then, others wouldn't dare to reckon up the 
 cost of their home raised eggs and fowl. Pitt is on the com- 
 mittee of Middlesex Law Library, and of the Republican Ward 
 Committee of City of Newton. For a summer vacation he mo- 
 tored with his family up to his old home town, Lancaster, stayed 
 for a while and motored back. 
 
 J. H. Dubois ''Fat" continues the "substantial citizen" of 
 
 Randolph, physically and philologically. He 
 doles out insurance and coal, two of the essentials of life in 
 Northern New England, and this and the hundred other good 
 works and deeds he is doing, keeps him well occupied. Honors 
 have been coming thick and fast. He is School Director, Water 
 Commissioner, and Bank Director. Like any good old-fashioned 
 substantial Vermonter, he keeps up the dignity of his position in 
 life by driving a handsome pair of pure-blood Morgan horses — 
 no auto, please note. For vacation "Fat" went to the State Fair 
 at White River Junction. He doesn't say he drove down with 
 his horses, but he was foolish if he didn't. Just because it has 
 never appeared in a class report before, we are going to say 
 that it was Miss Florence Irene Gisbarne of Montpelier to 
 whom "Fat" was married on May 21, 1908. "Fat" writes: "I 
 am having a dandy time in life — working and living. Am per- 
 fectly contented to live in the country, do my share of the com- 
 munity work, get a living, vote the Republican ticket, and keep 
 in normal condition of health." Whether that is called stand- 
 pat philosophy or not, it sounds good. 
 
 E. Eastman "Earl" has been enjoying his chemistry teach- 
 
 ing, earning his salary, and some more, which 
 last we presume he hasn't yet seen. He is on the executive Com- 
 mittee, Philadelphia Physics Club, Chairman Science Depart- 
 ments, High School, Atlantic City, N. J., and Chairman Chemis- 
 try Section of the State Science Teachers' Association. In 
 connection with this last office, he made an interesting summary 
 of the Conditions of Teaching Chemistry in New Jersey." Trav- 
 
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elling has been only short trip to Philadelphia (i. e., Dartmouth 
 41 — Pennsylvania 0, in 1914), and to vicinity of New York, 
 except for his vacation pilgrimage. The pilgrimage brought 
 him to Vermont over July 4, then until Labor Day at his sum- 
 mer place in Franklin, N. H. This is the old family place which 
 he inherited in 1913. He is improving it, and getting into his 
 old clothes, going a-berrying, caring for a garden which a friend 
 planted for him ; getting "back to nature" generally for two 
 months, he finds, gives him strength and inspiration for a stren- 
 uous year's work. 
 
 W. R. Eastman "Commodore" reports that with the chief clerk 
 
 of the Passenger Department of the Central 
 Vermont Ry., it is the same old two and two, day after day. His 
 travels have been only within a circle bounded by Boston, New 
 York, Buffalo, Toronto, and Montreal, a liberal looking circle to 
 a non-railroad man. On one of these "railroading" journeys 
 he saw Varney in New York. The only other man he has met 
 up with, outside of the crowds at March Round-up and Foot- 
 ball supper, has been his fellow townsman, Ed Hyatt. Com- 
 modore pleads "guilty" to being both an Alderman of the city 
 of St. Albans and a church warden, and living up to his college 
 nickname, he both steers a motor-boat and sails a yacht on Lake 
 Champlain. These last keep the Aldermanic side of him from 
 scrapping with the church warden, and vice versa. 
 
 W. F. Eaton "Bill" alias "Bob Dunbar", alias "Touch Down" 
 
 of the Journal has had a strenuous season ow- 
 ing to short-handedness in the office of the sporting editor. Still 
 his "aliases" have never failed to appear with their pithy and to 
 the point sporting news in each morning's edition of the Jour- 
 nal. His work has taken him to Hot Springs, Ark., Macon, Ga., 
 New York, Philadelphia, and St. Louis during the year. Fol- 
 lowing a custom established since early childhood, Bill moved 
 his household gods this summer as usual down to Cape Ann, 
 where at Lands End, Rockport, he maintains a summer resi- 
 dence, but he himself only got a few days now and then there. 
 
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Blue sea, white sails, and sea air are Bill's invigorators against 
 the editorial strenuousness of football time, even though they be 
 obtained through the minor capacity of tender of the jib sheet. 
 
 G. H. Evans George's work of Librarian has been the same 
 
 as usual. He has in addition given several 
 talks before the High School pupils on the "making, care, and 
 use of books". He is clerk of the old First Church of Woburn, 
 member of Greater Boston Council, Boy Scouts of America, 
 and this fall received the honor of being made a trustee of 
 Brewster Free Academy, New Hampshire, being appointed to 
 succeed the late Lucius Tuttle. George and Mrs. Evans made 
 a trip to Hanover in April, and among others saw Cav and 
 Gannon there. For a vacation they camped during the month 
 of July in the woods at Passaconaway. His words tell about 
 it best: 
 
 I camped during the month of July at Passaconaway on the knoll 
 across the river back of Annis's. There were four large tents, and a 
 part of the time five. Our party was made up of a congenial lot of 
 lovers of the out-of-doors, and was numerous enough so that it never 
 became lonesome for anyone whose desire for the moment did not 
 coincide with that of the majority. We did the usual stunts and 
 some not so usual. For instance, in the early part of the month we 
 had a twenty-four-hour downpour of rain that brought a ten-foot rise 
 in the Swift River, swept away our bridge in the night and left us 
 marooned. It was a week before we could construct a foot bridge, 
 on account of continued high water. In the meantime we had to ford 
 or raft it across. I have not had so much fun since I was a kid and 
 built rafts in the frog pond. At the end of a week I drafted three 
 other men, a wood chopper, and two fire wardens, and we got into the 
 water, towed logs into place and built a very fair bridge. This was still 
 more fun. We got all the trout needed for our larder, and some ber- 
 ries, though the latter were not up to the standard in quantity or qual- 
 ity on account of the continuous rainy condition. Wife and I canned 
 twenty-five quarts of raspberries and shipped them home. You are 
 hereby bidden to come out some day and sample them. 
 
 The trip up Tremont was a dandy. Tremont, you may remember, 
 is in the deepest part of the woods due north of the valley. There is 
 no trail, and they call it twelve miles to the top. Steering our way 
 through the woods, by map and compass and sun, with no outlooks for 
 
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assistance, was a lot of fun. We got back for a late supper after a mosi 
 successful and satisfactory hike. 
 
 In spite of lots of rain it was an eminently successful vacation 
 trip. 
 
 C. A. Folsom "Mun" was married June 30, 1915, to Miss 
 
 Mary Cronan of Manchester. For a little wed- 
 ding trip they motored up through the mountains. On the way 
 they got as far as Pease's Hotel, Hartland, then it began to 
 rain as it never did before in July and they had to stay there 
 three days, but even that was better than finding one's way 
 along the Lincoln Highway as Ash was doing at the same time. 
 Mun, of course, took his bride to Hanover and showed her all 
 the college sights, and told her about the famous game with 
 Harvard on the campus, then they went on up into the moun- 
 tains and returned to settle down in Manchester, Mun to his 
 practise and his garden of beans and cabbages, Mrs. to being 
 Mrs. Mun Folsom. 
 
 D. Ford "Dan" is leading a too strenuous life. In addi- 
 
 tion to his own regular work he has been car- 
 rying six hours belonging to an instructor who is ill, editing the 
 college magazine, performing the duties of secretary of the 
 faculty, a recent honor, and is acting as a member of the Ad- 
 ministration Board of the College. The last position is the 
 worst devourer of time. The Board handles (for 1800 students 
 in the Science, Literature and Arts College) all student peti- 
 tions, multifarious in their nature, all questions of advanced 
 standing, of student discipline, of eligibility, and worst of all, all 
 delinquents ; on the Board devolves the duty of deciding 
 whether a student whose work is of poor grade may remain 
 in college or not. Oftentimes Dan doesn't get home till 8 P. M. 
 Fortunately Dan had a good summer's outing, camping on the 
 shore of Leech Lake, Minn., during June, July, and August. 
 He fished and rowed and read, led a very quiet life and was 
 ten miles from a grocery store. But if the University of Min- 
 nesota keeps piling on the work, '99 will have to register a pro- 
 test. The muse, the soul, and '99 have rights in this world, too. 
 
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Dan and Mrs. Ford are thinking of spending next summer in 
 Hanover, and even of buying a country-place in Rowe, Mass. 
 May such come to pass. Then Dan won't have to say he sees 
 no '99-er, and more '99-ers may see Dan often. 
 
 W. A. Foss Bill Colbert had the pleasure of seeing Fat in 
 
 Manila two years ago this fall. Bob Thorn- 
 burg, now Dr. Thornburg, "Fat" and he had a little chat upon 
 the football games. Later Fat left Manila and none of the fel- 
 lows have heard from him. 
 
 H. D. Foster Professor and Mrs. Foster and Mrs. Richard- 
 Professor son were invited to be the guests of the class 
 
 at the after the game supper, but were unable 
 to be present. Professor Foster in expressing his regret asked 
 the secretary "to present to the class his cordial appreciation 
 and good will and the sentiment, The Class — the alembic which 
 distils personal friendship into college loyalty". 
 
 H. O. French "Franko" has been performing his cost reckon- 
 ing functions in the scales' factory week days, 
 and climbing up to High C in church on Sundays just as usual. 
 The trouble has been this year not inability to reckon cost but 
 inability to get cost. The war for a time took the edge off the 
 scales business. Instead of weighing things across the water 
 they were taking things "lumpously", as a countryman said. 
 However, "Franko" reports that things are O. K. again, that 
 for a little change last April he visited several great American 
 cities, got his soul filled up with arias and tried to see some 
 '99-ers, but didn't succeed. Tedo is the only one he sees, and 
 the last time they compared notes they decided that the "ques- 
 tionnaire was addressed to the progressive accumulative type 
 of individuals, such as are to be found in Massachusetts or 
 New York, rather than the quiescent non-accumulative type 
 to be found in Northern Vermont". Can it be possible that 
 Northern Vermonters thus catalogue themselves? 
 
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M. J. B. Fuller Here is a good letter from Montie, written at 
 
 Hanover, Conn., October 5, 1915: 
 
 Dear George: — To one who looks at a single life in the great world 
 movement, it seems a waste of time to tell about one's self, yet I 
 know from experience that human nature is the same in us all and I like 
 to hear and know all about others, so I will tell you, as you ask, about 
 myself. 
 
 I am in the biggest business on earth ; the business of trying to 
 reveal the nature of God in Christ to man. A business for the strongest 
 and best. (If I drop into the hortatory it will be from habit. If you 
 can't read my writing I can't yours. A minister and a lawyer are about 
 even on that.) But to go on, the year has not had any startling changes 
 for me. The individual and family life have gone on. We have been 
 blessed in every way. I hope the two boys will enter the ministry. We 
 have not had the doctor in the house for two years. The biggest event 
 has been forcing the saloon from town. It is out but may not stay. I 
 had a share in the business. 
 
 The war was not unexpected by me as it was by many. I have 
 studied the question with some care and in the light of Scripture and I 
 cannot see that the world is growing better but the war came as a 
 shock to me and in a sense deranged my faith and made a new realign- 
 ment of my thinking necessary. The town, which has woolen and cot- 
 ton mills, is booming as the result of the war. 
 
 I have no time as yet for any special research work, but when the 
 time comes I shall seek to take up some historical line. 
 
 I preach once Sunday, teach in Sunday School, and give short 
 talk in the evening. I left Dartmouth hardly believing in the Deity of 
 Jesus, but experience has taught me that the Deity of Jesus, and the 
 fear of punishment are needed as well as morality and love. Back of 
 that statement lie years of experience and thought. I am scribe of 
 the local conference of six churches, preach and have papers, etc., at 
 other churches and in minister's meetings. 
 
 I have been nowhere except to New Haven for a few days to 
 attend some lectures in Yale Theological Seminary. While there Asa- 
 kawa fed me at the Jap eating place and treated me to a good time. 
 Aside from that I do not recollect that I have seen any Dartmouth men 
 to talk with them. Went to Vermont in Car, pronounced with a very 
 long-drawn-out short a, thus Car. But I am getting very sensitive about 
 that Ford. It was made in 1910, has run all summer without a break, 
 and had you asked me about it a month ago I should have been only 
 too glad to extol it, but alas for my pride. I see today where I have got 
 to work and get black in the face and tear my hair, etc., etc. Say, take 
 pity on the minister if he has a Ford. Take up a collection and get 
 him a hand car or a Pierce Arrow. When the car goes good then all 
 
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is rosy, but how blue the world gets when the thing goes wrong! 
 President Tucker gave the Yale lectures one year and the boys said 
 they could tell when he changed cars, so I rather think the people 
 could tell, if they would, by my Sunday sermons how the old Ford 
 was running. But, really, the boys and I have had a lot of fun with 
 that heap of junk. They just glory in grease and dirt and their mother, 
 — maybe. Mark runs it and Melville works the cut-out and so we go. 
 
 I think I have answered all your questions. I know a little what it 
 is to try and get men to respond to efforts even for their benefit, and 
 I am glad for the effort you are making to get a full class report. It 
 might be a good thing to have what children are old enough write a 
 letter. 
 
 Thanking you for your interest in me and mine, I am, Yours sin- 
 cerely, M. J. B. Fuller. 
 
 Since the above, Montie has finished his pastorate at Han- 
 over, and is "camping" for a while at E. Canaan, Conn. 
 
 A. L. Galusha "Galush" has sold his Dorchester home and 
 
 moved his residence to Westford, Mass. The 
 factory is still turning out Gas Producers at 311 Atlantic Ave., 
 and "Galush" goes back and forth in a Ford. It's been a poor 
 year. The war cut off export business largely, still it gave 
 indirectly some other work. He sold one Gas Producer this 
 year, to the Government of New South Wales, Australia. Has 
 contributed technical articles to Marine Review, International 
 Engineering, Motor Boat, Rudder, and a few foreign publica- 
 tions. Only traveling has been a business trip from Massachu- 
 setts to Georgia, seaboard states inclusive. No vacation. 
 
 J. W. Gannon Joe says he has done a lot of hard work this 
 
 year. That's speaking about business. He 
 might add that he has done a lot of hard work for Dartmouth, 
 too, in connection with his duties on the Athletic Council, and 
 in the course of it has made five trips to Hanover to attend 
 Council meetings. That it has been appreciated is shown by his 
 re-election to the Council, for another term of three years by 
 the alumni, last June. Joe had a cottage on Cape Cod for the 
 summer. The family were there all the time, but Joe was only 
 there a month, going down frequently for week ends at other 
 
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times. Joe is trustee of St. Vincent Babies' Hospital, Mont- 
 clair. His residence is changed to 405 Park Street, Upper Mont- 
 clair, N. J. 
 
 Gardening The number of Ninety-nine gardeners is as- 
 
 tounding. There are sixty or forty-seven per 
 cent. May be some rigid classifier would throw out some of 
 those we have allowed to classify. Not size, but the gardening 
 spirit has been the test we have used. For instance, we threw 
 out Bonney, who planted oats in his back yard for the cat to 
 eat, and A. H. Brown of Portland, Oregon, who tried to sneak 
 in under the tape by saying "My roses bloom the year round". 
 They may, gorgeously, but we know it's the coast air and rains 
 that does it and not "A. EL", by even so much as "pinching" off 
 an improperly located bud or sprout. 
 
 That gardening spirit ! It's marvelous. It blows out at you 
 from the seven nasturtium blossoms that Jim Barney by careful 
 application of dry towels succeeded in producing out of a rainy 
 season from his porch box. It gets into your nostrils from that 
 shelf of cyclamen and red geraniums and pure white paper nar- 
 cissus, the last like a bit of clean New Hampshire snow that has 
 drifted in onto the greenery that lays snuggled up against the 
 window-pane of George Prescott's apartment window shelf. 
 You have it in Bob Johnston's "planted paper of nasturtiums. 
 How did they do? Rotten". There's the tragedy of blasted 
 hope. Doc Hardwick nursing with tenderness his hollyhocks 
 until like Jack-in-the-Bean-Stalk they were twelve feet high ; 
 Payne with his splendid flower garden alone, Risley likewise 
 going in only for flowers, exhibit it. Rogers with his twenty- 
 five pansy plants that did fine, his ten hills of corn that did not 
 produce an ear give you the same twang of poignancy that you 
 might get from acres. You can see Herb proudly going home 
 from Quincy Hall Market after office hours carrying a last 
 year's grape basket smiling with those pansy plants and a pack- 
 age of Golden Bantam sweet corn seed tucked away in his in- 
 side waistcoat pocket out of reach of any subway pickpockets. 
 You can feel the delight that surged up through his fingers as 
 
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he tucked the warm earth about the plants that night, patted 
 the hoe down on his buried corn seeds. You can get the anxiety 
 of the long days, waiting for the roasting corn, tempered only 
 by the blooming pansies and then the disappointment. That's 
 true gardening, though de minime, for you really have to get 
 into vegetables to be a real gardener. There's Donahue, who 
 specialized in tomatoes. Petted and coddled them all summer. 
 Baffled the cut-worms. Produced magnificent tropical foliage 
 and six tomatoes, one ripe, five small green ones. The vision 
 of nourished hopes and jars of piccalilli go sailing into the Oc- 
 tober sky like Aladdin's castle. There's Peddy Miller who tried 
 radishes and lettuce, but neither would grow. "Never could 
 make a garden grow", he writes, 'Tartly ignorance and partly 
 tennis". There's pathos, for if anything could stand "tennis" 
 it would be radishes. There's Pap's ludicrous adventure of the 
 jester joked, sweet ambition, nursing care, blighted with ridi- 
 cule, the worst of all gardening evils. There's Silver who lands 
 in with a "Yep ! Got two dozen ears of corn, one-half bushel 
 potatoes, seventeen beets". They are one and all true gar- 
 deners ! 
 
 We do not feel so sure about the propriety of allowing the 
 next group to classify. They are quite a substantial group, of 
 much dignity in their communities, but they try to get in here 
 through their wives. Of course many of us try to get into 
 heaven by sending our wives to church, but that is no excuse 
 for trying the same game on gardening. Reprehensible trick- 
 ery ! However, there are extenuating circumstances in each 
 instance and in some much doubt whether the parties in ques- 
 tion did not really help to produce the results, so to avoid argu- 
 ment, we allow them to be classed. 
 
 Of course planting your garden in your wife's name, as 
 Buck Burns did, does not prevent it from being yours, but like 
 all such practices whether with respect to personal property or 
 real, from the point of view of other fellows, it is reprehensible. 
 We presume that Buck's reason for so doing was so as to be able 
 to say to his neighbor down the street, with no garden, as they 
 rode down to business, "My corn's delicious now. I'd like to 
 
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give you some, old fellow, but you know the garden's my wife's 
 so I cannot". Carl Miller hired a man, superintended by Mrs. 
 Miller, to plant his, and enjoyed the benefits. Carl classifies by 
 having picked the lettuce for tea one evening the cook was out. 
 Pearl's wife did all his gardening this year and it turned out a 
 corker. Raymond gets in by some learned observations made 
 upon the proper method of fertilizing the "imperfect" straw- 
 berry blossoms one evening while Mrs. Pearl was at work upon 
 them. Sears qualifies through Mrs. Sears' plantation "under 
 his direction and approval". Tootell is more generous, he 
 planted it and says "it did very well thanks to wife's efforts". 
 Mrs. Wardle planted theirs, and "Weary" gets under the tape 
 only because he has the boldness to say that "It was bum". 
 Wason says Mrs. Wason took full charge, so it was bound to be 
 a success. We have hard work letting Bill pass, but we are 
 going to, at least because he knew enough to let Mrs. Wason 
 take full charge. P. Winchester's wife hired a man to do it, but 
 "P" had to dig the earlier crops of weeds of which they raised a 
 great variety. "The gardening game was mostly a scrap be- 
 tween me and the weeds, but the latter had so much of a handi- 
 cap I won out. We did manage to harvest a few beets, turnips, 
 summer squash and carrots, of which latter the rabbit got his 
 share, as well as more than his share of weeds". "P" undoubt- 
 edly qualifies. This last is real gardening, vividly real when 
 there is a rabbit in the family. 
 
 Ah ! the real gardeners. This has been a year of ups and 
 downs and try, by plots and curves, by geographical sub-divid- 
 ing, by occupational reckonings the best we can we have been 
 unable to account for those ups and downs. 
 
 Of the gardens that have done poorly, the world of sor- 
 row in Croker's simple "— 0" report heading the list, trails on 
 down through all the rest. Tedo Chase's was "not up to the 
 usual mark", Dickey was "too busy to care for his and it didn't 
 do very well by itself. Pretty fair tomato crop". War un- 
 doubtedly guilty there! Drew's didn't "do very well", Evan's 
 was "bum," Fuller's went to all weeds, "Boys didn't hoe and 
 I didn't want to." What a terrible situation in a parson! 
 
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Hawkes' "sank like all the rest/' Hodgkin's was "damaged by 
 high water," Lane's was "no good," Lyster's "did poorly," Par- 
 ker's was "rotten," Rice's "only fair owing to heavy rains." 
 The cause comes up at last. That series of showers was pretty 
 well spread over the country. Sewall's was not harvested, "too 
 much vacation." Staley's attempts to "research" a maximum 
 back-yard garden with a minimum of hoeing, brought only a 
 crop of weeds. Too much tennis we suspect. And Wiggin's 
 just "froze up." What a tale of woe and empty cellar shelves 
 it depicts. 
 
 On the other hand Allen's garden though "unsatisfactory fi- 
 nancially was quite satisfactory otherwise." Atwood supplied 
 all his neighbors with sweet corn, summer squash, beets, beans, 
 and potatoes until they began to hold up their hands and cry 
 halt. Clark's cropped bounteously in all lines. Dubois' was 
 excellent, E. Eastman's, save for sweet corn, was O. K., Eaton's 
 was "fine as always," Folsom's cabbages and beans were won- 
 ders of Manchester, Gerould's "better than ever before," Green- 
 wood's "by far best I ever had," Hopkins' "fairly well." Jor- 
 dan's produced good results and lots of pleasure. Kendall's 
 was fine because he did his own hoeing, that's what he says. 
 Musgrove had what many in the neighborhood said was best 
 in Hanover, including two hundred head cabbage and good 
 cantaloupe and watermelon. Richardson's was "the horn-swag- 
 gledst best garden of its size in Eastern Mass." Safe statement 
 because no other would be just same size. Jim says, "I never 
 expected to be able to brag on this subject and it gives me 
 great pleasure." Jim might have added a word about his rock 
 garden which is a living herbarium of wild things supplement- 
 ing the Arnold Arboretum, but was probably afraid he might 
 make a botanical mistake if he ventured out upon such a be- 
 wildering subject. Spear's garden was "ripping," Storrs' was 
 fine and still working in October, Tibbetts' ran Musgrove's a 
 close second except on the bean score. Too much water for 
 them. Varney's did abundantly (see Varney). Next year we 
 are going to have a cabbage contest between Luke and Mus- 
 grove. J. B. C. Walker's did fine. Willard planted several 
 
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times. Peas and beans didn't come up, potatoes rotted, but 
 frost held off until nearly Thanksgiving so his corn and toma- 
 toes won him the day at Canossa. Woodman's was a next door 
 neighbor to Willard, caught the same ill turns and same enthu- 
 siasms and when it saw Tony's spurting for a finish, perked up 
 and did likewise and the result was a real "Woodman race." 
 You see there is no accountability for poor results and good 
 results neither geographically, climatically or occupationally. 
 There's where the joy of gardening comes in. 
 
 Out of 127 men only two of those who didn't have gardens 
 gloried in their situation. "Cav" reported "NevVUR," Bones 
 Woodward "No, thank God." Something must be wrong with 
 their respective digestive systems. All the other non-posses- 
 sors are simply quiescent, not yet having been stirred by this 
 fine thing. Bailey, however, is going to have a garden next 
 year, Beal replies "Future tense applies 1916" and Bill Colbert 
 since he has been at Sidis has been inoculating himself with 
 the germ by gathering the potatoes and mowing grass, so the 
 ranks are enlarging. If an interest in gardening is a sign of 
 old age, as some contend, we are aging fast, but we are doing 
 it with a fine enthusiasm that takes out all the sting. 
 
 G. H. Gerould Jerry's done "a lot of work." Teaching hasn't 
 
 been so heavy, the burden has been the in- 
 creasing number of things to manage. At one time he was 
 tempted by the offer of an administrative job at a larger salary 
 than he thinks he will ever get, but decided "not worth while." 
 During the year he has worked on several articles on hagiog- 
 raphy, has sent off his book "Saints' Lives" to the press, but 
 publication is held up on it owing to detention of Neilson, the 
 editor of the series, in Germany. Two stories appeared in 
 Scribner's, "The Best Seller," Sept., 1915, being widely quoted, 
 and the "Source of the Middle English Prose — St. Elizabeth of 
 Spalbech in English," in a technical journal. Jerry has also 
 done a lot of traveling. The Secretary was surprised with the 
 following delightful letter, dated Hilo, Hawaii, July 24, 1915: 
 
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Dear George: — Until the last few days Hilo, on the island of 
 Hawaii, would have seemed to me one of the remotest of spots. Yet 
 we are here for three days quite as if it were in the ordinary course 
 of things. We landed at Honolulu last Tuesday morning after a voy- 
 age that was much like other voyages — neither better nor worse. Until 
 Thursday evening we viewed the town from the hillside above the bay, 
 where one of my cousins has his house, or loitered about the town it- 
 self. The bay is beautiful and the island lovely as only a sub-tropical 
 region can be. We made only one excursion outside, when we mo- 
 tored up one of the narrow valleys leading back from the city to the 
 Pali, a romantic pass on the backbone of the island. Honolulu is a 
 lovely town, pretty because it is beautifully situated and partly because 
 of the vegetation that embowers it. One of the most interesting aspects 
 of it is the medley of populations. Native Hawaiians don't play a 
 large role in modern Honolulu; they are merely a kind of solvent 
 for the mixture of other races. It is a blessing that they have left 
 memorials in the names on the map. 
 
 On Thursday evening we had a most beautiful sail down through 
 the archipelago, reaching Hilo at breakfast time. It was a moonlight 
 night, and we stayed late on deck, enjoying the mountainous shapes of 
 the islands with the lights of little ports scattered here and there, and 
 the tropical sea at its quietest. Hilo itself is a sugar port with the 
 same contrasts as Honolulu on a smaller scale, and a more luxuriant 
 vegetation. It has, moreover, this most excellent hotel, built in Orien- 
 tal fashion and managed by a Greek. 
 
 Yesterday was a most exciting day. After motoring about here 
 a little we got off for Kilauea, the great active volcanic crater on the 
 lower slope of Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa is slightly active at the top, 
 13,000 feet above sea-level, but the crater of Kilauea is the thing to see. 
 We lunched at an inn that overlooks the rim of the outside crater, and 
 loafed about there till late afternoon. Sulphur cracks all about spout 
 their fumes into the tropical foliage, but the crater itself is a waste 
 of lava, miles across. Towards night we went by a winding road 
 through the jungle to the active pit itself. On the edge of it we stayed 
 for some hours, looking down on the seething cauldron five hundred feet 
 below us. It is a quite indescribable spectacle, as awe-inspiring to the 
 ear as to the eye, more terrible than anything that ever came my way 
 before. In the evening we motored back here through dense jungle 
 for miles and other miles of sugar-cane. 
 
 We've only begun our Hawaiian experiences, as a matter of fact, 
 but we're enraptured by them. We sail for Frisco on August 17. Ever 
 yours, Jerry. 
 
 Later upon request for some expressed impressions, he 
 wrote, November 7, 1915: 
 
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Dear George: — You are very justly annoyed with me for neither 
 returning the questionnaire nor writing the letter that you demanded of 
 me. I acknowledge your right to curse me utterly. Yet it was only my 
 excellent intentions that led me into evil. I have kept thinking that 1 
 should really find time "within the next few days" to write something 
 about our trip to Hawaii that might be of interest to you and the other 
 fellows; and every week has been so full of imperative duties that I 
 haven't got to the point of doing it. If you care for it, I can, however, 
 tell you some things in a quite informal and unambitious way — mere 
 poundings on the typewriter about certain impressions that I have in 
 mind as a result of our month in the Islands last summer. 
 
 In the first place, I doubt whether anyone who has not visited 
 Hawaii has any clear notion of the extraordinary ethnological mixture 
 in the territory. I had had no idea that there were something like 
 84,000 Japanese in the Islands. That is the figure. The population is 
 otherwise composed — I am giving all this with only approximate cor- 
 rectness: 12,000 whites and 16,000 Portuguese (separately listed); 24,000 
 Chinese; 24,000 Hawaiians and 14,000 part Hawaiians; aside from some 
 few thousands apiece of Koreans, Porto Ricans, and Filipinos. The 
 mixture is salted with specimens of several other peoples. As you see, 
 whites are in a very small minority, and Japs lead all the rest. The 
 result is strange, exotic racial atmosphere, rendered the more interesting 
 and pleasant by the fact that all live together in quite remarkable amity. 
 Except for disorderly Filipinos, who have bad habits of robbing and kill- 
 ing people, general behavior seems to be quite as good as anywhere on 
 the mainland. 
 
 As for the Japanese, every old-timer in the Islands scoffs at the 
 notion of a "Japanese peril". It is one of the pleasantest tributes to 
 Japanese character within my experience that the great preponderance 
 of Japanese is not regraded as a peril by the men best qualified to judge 
 of the situation. The Japanese do their full share of the work of the 
 islands, both in the fields and in domestic service, and they do it well 
 They have come to stay, and they are prospering. It is only natural 
 that they wish to provide schools for their children, and that they 
 have their own temples and community life. The poor children are 
 made to attend both the government schools and the Japanese schools, 
 so they have no holidays at all. Yet they are a happy, healthy crew 
 of youngsters, despite hard work. Nothing is more charming than to 
 see well-bathed plantation laborers in clean white kimonos tending their 
 babies at the close of a day in the sugar fields. Asakawa, if he sees 
 this, will be amused to know that I found great difficulty in distin- 
 guishing between Japanese and other Orientals when they did not 
 wear their national dress. The point is, that we Easterners are not 
 accustomed to the variety of types that one sees among the Japanese 
 peasants, and we get confused in the medley of races. One failing of 
 
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these people, as one sees them in Hawaii, is a defect of their qualities : 
 they try to do things without understanding them and get into sad 
 messes. At the same time, their ambition is praiseworthy, and their 
 failures do not take away from their charm. 
 
 The native Hawaiians themselves do much to add to the gaiety 
 and delight of their native islands. They are a dying race, but the 
 handsomest and most amiable people ever doomed to destruction. The 
 leis of flowers wherewith they deck themselves are not a bad symbol 
 of their qualities. They are like children, easily moved to everything 
 except steady work, and they captivate one in spite of their faults. 
 They are dying of clothes and houses, though the Board of Health 
 writes the malady down as of the throat and lungs. One of the most 
 interesting experiences we had was attending a luau, or a native feast, 
 at a remote village across Oahu from Honolulu. We had been sent 
 there to see native life in a comparatively unspoiled condition, and 
 we had the great good luck to happen upon a real luau — which is a very 
 different thing from the kind prepared in Honolulu for the expectant 
 and gaping traveler. Though the Kanakas have been nominally Chris- 
 tianized and civilized for nearly a century, they had slipped back into 
 barbarism that day, quite easily and naturally. It was a wild scene 
 under the palm leaf shelter by the beach, a riotous scene, but a most 
 interesting one to anyone with an eye for tropical conditions. 
 
 What every visitor to the Island does, we did, of course; we went 
 to the "Volcano". Kilauea, the largest active volcanic crater in the 
 world lies on the lower slopes of great Mauna Loa, a 14,000 foot moun- 
 tain rising from the sea. You travel by motor some thirty-five miles 
 up from the coast through plantations and tropical forest, and emerge 
 on a region of black desolation in the midst of which is set the crater. 
 If you can imagine a pot of blazing tar three miles in diameter and 
 correspondingly deep, you can get some conception of Kilauea, only 
 you must imagine also the groans, the rumblings, the crashings that 
 ascend from this pit of Hell. Mauna Loa is on Hawaii, the largest 
 island of the group. We visited also the great extinct crater of Halea- 
 kala, on Maui, which is a mountain ten thousand feet high. The sum- 
 mit looks like a range of the Rockies set in a circle, with a pit half a 
 mile deep in the center. It is stupendous somewhat as the Grand Can- 
 yon is stupendous, though it has not the beauty that makes t ( he 
 Canyon unique. But not all the natural scenery of the Islands is on 
 the grand scale. There is an extraordinary range of beauty in a 
 small compass, ever-changing effects of many-colored water, luxuri- 
 ance of tropical foliage and flowers, desert mountain slopes in won- 
 derful grey and brown, and valleys of perpetual delight. I am told 
 that the Iao Valley on Maui somewhat resembles the Yosemite — which 
 1 have never seen — in size and contour ; but the bottom and sides of it 
 are covered with rich vegetation such as one does not find in California. 
 Yet the Iao Valley is only one of many. On Gahu I went quite alone 
 
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up a canyon that ends in a waterfall, still held sacred by the natives — 
 Kaliuwaa. into the upper valley beyond the fall no one has ever en- 
 tered, and probably never will. As I stood by the black pool at the 
 base of the waterfall, with green and black cliffs rising two thousand 
 feet above me and the entrance to the canyon almost shut off by the 
 cliffs behind. 1 reflected that I was singularly fortunate to be experi- 
 encing Kubla Khan in the flesh. At the same time, it took all the nerve 
 1 had with me to plunge into the pool for a swim. 
 
 The Islands are nothing, you see, but masses of volcanic moun- 
 tains with strips of arable land along the coast. Almost all the land 
 that can be cultivated is now in use, most of it in sugar or pineapple 
 plantations. Don't be impatient with the Islanders that they cry out 
 against free sugar. It is true that they make tremendous profits when 
 sugar is high, as it is just now, but it is also true that economic con- 
 ditions and geographic conditions prevent conservative farming, with 
 varied crops in small holdings. Irrigation is necessary everywhere 
 except on the windward side of the Islands, and all other expenses run 
 to that scale. Tell your congressmen — if you happen to have them 
 about — that they can ruin Hawaii without half trying if they don't take 
 into account the peculiar conditions. I tried to get at the truth of the 
 matter, and I came to the conclusion that the Territory does need pro- 
 tected sugar and — what is quite as important — exemption from the pres- 
 ent shipping laws. 
 
 But the most interesting thing we saw in Hawaii, after all, was 
 neither scenic nor social. It was the Leper Settlement at Kalaupapa, 
 on Molokai. We had great difficulties about getting there, but we very 
 grateful that it could be accomplished. I have never seen any human- 
 itarian project quite so well adapted to the ends in view or carried out 
 with quite the same degree of heroic common-sense. Nearly every- 
 one, I'm afraid, thinks of the Settlement as a place of horror : some- 
 thing almost too terrible to dwell upon. That is an utterly false im- 
 pression. I have never felt prouder of belonging to the human family, 
 as a matter of fact, than I did when we came away ; and, while there, 
 I could only go about in uplifted amazement that the miracle had been 
 accomplished. There were the seven hundred lepers living on an iso- 
 lated shelf of an isolated island, to which a miserable little coasting 
 steamer comes once a week, in good weather, yet living with all the 
 external cheerfulness and all the decencies that one could find any- 
 where. The marvellous thing is that skillful management — and I 
 mean to sum up in that phrase all the heroism of the men and women 
 who have devoted themselves to the task — has been able to give the 
 lepers almost perfectly normal lives in so far as they are physically 
 able to work and play. I cannot in a paragraph describe the place to 
 you. I can only set down the impression that it made on me. Let me 
 also record the fact that the development of Kalaupapa is due more 
 largely to the present Superintendent, Mr. J. D. McVeigh, than to 
 
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anyone else, though many have had a share in the work. What he has 
 done ought to be known as widely as is the name of Molokai. 
 
 It would be painfully easy to make a book of rambling traveler's 
 impressions, I find, once I have seated myself to spin a few pages to 
 you. I could even tell you travelers' tales if I had time, and you pa- 
 tience; but after all I mustn't assume that we are the first visitors to 
 the Hawaiian group, and I should be sorry if more and more travelers 
 weren't destined to steam southwestward from San Francisco. What 
 we wish to do now is, of course, to get into the South Seas proper 
 or on to the shores of Asia. One couldn't help that who has seen 
 Hawaii. 
 
 Ever yours (to be treated as you will, whether with blessings or 
 revilings), Jerry. 
 
 A. H. Greenwood Bill has had a full year. Feb. 24, 1915, he had 
 
 a son born, John Gage Greenwood. Then he 
 acquired a brand new summer and winter home in the city, 
 with all its conveniences, but in sight of some country that can- 
 not be beat in Conn., with a fine yard coaxing him to build a 
 garden. "It's just far enough from the madding crowd, to have 
 about a quarter of an acre of dirt in the back yard, in which 
 the wife, the boys (there are two now), and I, can play," — 
 consequently they did. Bill "planted a garden that was by 
 far the best he ever had." Bill's new home is 588 Broadview 
 Terrace, his residence 'phone is "Charter 1899-5." "That beats 
 Warren and the "Doc's!" Bill contributed "The Torford Barl 
 Grinding Machine" to Machinery December, 1914, some "Build 
 Now" articles to Commercial and Factory, and a description of 
 'The Gray Telephone Pay Station Co.'s Building" in Concrete 
 — Cement Age. He says he hasn't been 200 miles from home 
 during year, but he was in Boston at beginning of year. He 
 has seen Donny and the Secretary, and ran across Fod Martin 
 in Glastonbury's Peach orchards, received a visit from Oakes 
 in March and Tom and Mrs. Whittier in May, which isn't bad. 
 For a vacation he stayed at home with the family and took 
 care of the greenest Greenwood (epithet originated by Jim Rich- 
 ardson). Bill is still and has been since its beginning in 1914 
 the Pres. of the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, and he persuaded 
 Donny to give the Club some real good '99 philosophy in Oct., 
 1914. For full particulars see "Donahue' 
 
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 .>> 
 
Hanover Outside of the three ninety-niners who live in 
 
 Visitors Hanover, N. P. Brown who summers there and 
 
 Cav who "falls it" there, twenty-six others have 
 been back at the college during the year. Those there perma- 
 nently, temporarily or transiently have been : Asakawa, Atwood, 
 Brown, N. P., Cavanaugh, Chase, H. B., Chase, T. W., Colbert, 
 Cushman, Donahue, Folsom, Gannon, Hardwick, Hodgkins, 
 Hopkins, Hoskins, Hutchinson, Hyatt, Johnston, Kendall, Mil- 
 ler, C. O., Musgrove, O'Sullivan, Parker, Richardson, Silver, 
 Speare, Storrs, Tibbetts, Varney, Walker, J. B. C, Whittier. 
 
 E. V. Hardwick "Doc's" worked like a Trojan (those aren't 
 Revisits just his words but they sound better in print) 
 
 Hanover this year. He's still got that telephone number 
 
 1895-1915 "Dorchester 99," and he swears it is a real 
 
 number. Though "Doc" has a bunch of beach 
 cottages at Nantasket, some of them built out of Barney's lum- 
 ber piles), he prefers to rent them and motor through the coun- 
 try. This summer for a vacation Mrs. Hardwick and he went 
 up the White Mountains as far as Dixville Notch, and came 
 down the Connecticut Valley and back through the Berkshires. 
 On way down he stopped a night at Inn in Hanover, saw Dave 
 and inspected "Mushy's" new printing plant. Some prosperity! 
 The following night at Greenfield, he saw Payne. "He is look- 
 ing hale and hearty. Time has touched him lightly and he 
 wears the same old smile of college days, when he owned Reed 
 Hall. He has given up plugging and pulling teeth, he never 
 did like "plugging" anyhow, and has gone into drug game, pull- 
 ing legs and trying to dope out the new narcotic law." Later 
 asked to give his impressions of the New Hanover "Doc" just 
 slid into verse as easily as a new ship taking water. We print : 
 
 The place has changed, and sure does thrive. 
 Let's see : the year was '95 
 When I, a skinny freshman, came 
 To town to carve myself a name. 
 
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I fear I made sad work of it 
 Yet stayed a year before 1 quit. 
 (Not fired by Prex or packed off home, 
 Just got the med. bug in my dome.) 
 
 I've often wished I'd kept in line 
 And left the place with Ninety-Nine; 
 But all the same I have a hunch 
 That I belong to that old bunch, 
 
 That clings together through the years 
 And more compact each day appears. 
 The Dartmouth spirit shows throughout 
 And every man's a good old scout. 
 
 But from my theme I seem to stray : — 
 "How Dartmouth looks to me today?" 
 Or "How old Hanover appears 
 To one away for twenty years?" 
 
 Now first, — the students thereabout 
 Are only boys, (I'm old, no doubt). 
 As I recall, the fellows then 
 To me, at least, seemed full-grown men. 
 
 The good old green but septic sweater 
 Is now discarded. Garments better 
 Replace the iron corduroy 
 (I'd hate the change were I a boy). 
 
 The Inn is now a cosy place 
 With Fairfield for its boniface. 
 (The Hotel Wheelock as it seemed 
 An architect, when sick, had dreamed). 
 
 I looked around for Sanborn Hall, 
 The pride, and once the boast of all. 
 But nowhere round the college green 
 Was its palatial grandeur seen. 
 
 1 found it, but, it's sad to think 
 It totters at the grim grave's brink; 
 Close to the spot, they lay away 
 The greatness of the bygone day. 
 
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Gone, too, Hen Swasey's ! Gone his steeds ! 
 (This theme, an Omar, surely needs). 
 Gone hence, long since, "the calico", 
 Hen's pride. Gone where good horses go ! 
 
 The chargers, too, once owned by Hamp, 
 On heavenly oats their gold bits champ ; 
 While laughing, horselike, to have seen 
 Their work all done by gasolene. 
 
 The streets about the good old town 
 No longer have a bad renown. 
 They're real avenues de luxe 
 Just like you see in picture books. 
 
 The tower view is full as fine 
 As any that these eyes of mine 
 Have seen upon the earth's fair face, 
 (Perhaps it's that I love the place). 
 
 Those rows of buildings, grand and new 
 Are simply great. They surely do 
 Beat any others anywhere, 
 Whatever college you compare. 
 
 The Gym gigantic won my praise. 
 With other changes since our days ; 
 We saw the joint for midnight hash. 
 Postoffice new, a bank for cash. 
 
 And Mussy's place (Oh, not so bad!) 
 That he's made good we all are glad. 
 And Dave Storrs' shop, right up to date 
 He's happy still though celibate. 
 
 I liked the dear old buildings best 
 Just as they stand upon the crest, 
 With time worn faces looking down 
 Across the campus on the town. 
 
 In line unbroken sturdy, strong 
 May they unchanged endure as long 
 As there is need of college halls, 
 As long as Mother Dartmouth calls. 
 
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At last within a chapel pew 
 I mused upon the old and new : — 
 The new but beautifies the old 
 Like polish added to pure gold. 
 
 These great improvements must be fine 
 For men today. But Ninety-nine 
 With lamps of oil and wood stove heat 
 Came through, a bunch that can't be beat. 
 
 And still while scattered far and wide 
 One love in each man does abide — 
 For Ninety-nine and Dartmouth, too. 
 (They mean the same to me and you). 
 
 To me at least there is no doubt 
 Of classes Dartmouth has turned out, 
 Old Ninety-nine heads all the rest : 
 Best then, best now, forever best. 
 
 And when again in three short years 
 The campus echoes with your cheers, 
 Whatever happens I don't care, 
 Just bet your life E. V.'ll be there. 
 
 We have set "Doc" and Mrs. Hardvvick down for the 
 Southeast corner suite in Massachusetts for the Vicennial. 
 
 J. H. Hartley Joe characterizes his year as getting an insight 
 
 into his business, to wit insurance. He was in 
 England during July and August, partly business and partly 
 pleasure. Had to go through a rigid examination in Liverpool. 
 That's how the war affected him. 
 
 H. W. Hawkes The year has been about as usual with "Doc," 
 
 perhaps a bit busier, and has passed very quick- 
 ly and pleasantly. His family now consists of three children, 
 the last Ralph Wilson Hawkes, Jr., arriving Sept. 23, 1915. He 
 has a home of his own in the permanent part of the town and 
 enjoys life, though he doesn't get away much. His practice 
 has been general, one case in highest court. "Doc" gave a few 
 informal talks last spring on the subject of Schools, with refer- 
 
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ence to Needs of those of York, preparing for Town Meeting. 
 Me is President of Library Association, and has been superin- 
 tendent of schools for two years, — 1913-1915, — and all these 
 things have kept him on the jump. He was also appointed Trial 
 Justice of York County, with criminal jurisdiction under a law 
 which took effect last July, so is the first in the class really en- 
 titled to be called "judge," which he sort of likes though the 
 duties are blamed tiresome at times. In August he held trial 
 before an audience that packed one of the large moving picture 
 theatres at York Beach, when three young men were accused of 
 attempting a riot. He held them for the grand jury and they 
 were then held for trial. " Doc's" travels have been chiefly to 
 Millbury, Mass., where Mrs. Hawkes' mother is in ill health. 
 In the spring he did pull himself away for a little auto trip up 
 into the White Mountains. 
 
 A. L. Heywood "Spade" is doing his level best, assisted by the 
 
 the war, to aid U. S. Steel to resume dividends 
 on "common." One wife, no children, two addresses in Wor- 
 cester, one new, to wit, 10 Oread Street, seem to bound his 
 horizon. Still, when the Questionnaire got to asking about 
 diaries and letters for a possible historical picture of our col- 
 lege days, the old instinct reasserted itself, and "Spade" came 
 to the surface and took the bait, he went so far, as to run down 
 question 25 about the Sophomore History, in the '99 Aegis and 
 report the data there. That's the third time, at least, he has 
 broken through his horizon this last twelfth month. The other 
 two times were when he made his usual summer vacation to the 
 old home town of Bucksport, and again when he went there in 
 December. 
 
 O. A. Hoban A year ago this fall "Hobe" rode over 4500 
 
 miles in autos, and made over 100 speeches. 
 That was when he was running for the U. S. Congress. It 
 was some athletic stunt, but all together he had a very enjoya- 
 ble time. It would have been only more enjoyable for him, 
 if he had won. Since that performance the terse word "work" 
 
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covers his activities. "Hobe" thinks that probably the most 
 important thing he has done this year was to help draw the 
 Democratic platform for the last election, and participate in 
 the discussion thereof at the late Democratic Convention. The 
 importance of these two acts is not to be measured by the re- 
 sults of the election. He also made a few speeches in the 
 Third Congressional District during the Campaign. Except for 
 the travel they necessitated, he has not been about any this year, 
 nor taken any vacation ; other than the Penn game and '99 sup- 
 per. Anyone who is both Town Solicitor and a member of 
 the school committee of a burg like Gardiner has to stay at 
 home. 
 
 J. W. Hobbs Joe's year has like Vesuvius been quiescently 
 
 active. In other words, he has been right at 
 work, only he has not been doing the additional things that 
 make "copy." However, he has during the year taken his 
 "First Promotional Exam," and also an illuminating course 
 on the Modern Drama at Boston University. With Bill Col- 
 bert and he yoked up together we could have a '99 Drama League 
 all by ourselves. Joe stayed in town for a vacation, making 
 occasional week end trips to Maine, and for the rest of the time 
 got up muscle and vim for this winter's work by helping a 
 Hull friend cut the placid waters of Boston Harbor into geo- 
 metrical patterns a-yachting. 
 
 W. B. Hodgkins The Assistant Manager of Ballard Vale, the 
 
 Secretary likes the swing of those repeated a's, 
 has another son, Richard Bradlee Hodgkins, born Oct. 17, 1915. 
 There is a full backfield now. Staley's set of babcks, though 
 they may have the lead, have got to look out if they are going 
 to make the team. It all is the probable cause of the follow- 
 ing note from Hodge's typewriter, dated Nov. 15, 1915: 
 
 Dear George: — Am sending my valuable data to you. There is 
 absolutely no change in my honors, life or business. I have added one 
 more to the roster, and we are slowly growing older — faster seems the 
 word — but keep happy and well so far. 
 
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In a village such as this one becomes accustomed to the very quiet 
 life, and it is impossible to attend to business and get very far away 
 on travels, etc. Also when one's business is rather confining it gen- 
 erally means that when night comes the home is pretty good. 
 
 There is only one relaxation outside of riding in which I enjoy 
 myself, and that is a little work in amateur theatricals. Strange to 
 say it does not worry me to learn parts after using my brain all day, 
 and I get out evenings with sociable people for a few weeks. But 
 home is the place for such old fellows as we are getting to be, and 
 therefore all the honors and activities must go to those who are doing 
 the work to get them. 
 
 While I cannot furnish anything of interest to the others, I shall 
 certainly enjoy reading about them. Cordially yours, Willis B. Hodg- 
 kins. 
 
 Hodge is too modest about his histrionic ability. Last win- 
 ter he took the part of the waiter in "You Never Can Tell," and 
 doorkeeper in "The Man of Destiny," and this winter he is 
 playing leading parts. He was the Hon. Sandy Verrall in 
 "Eliza Comes to Stay," and competent judges say he was capital 
 in the part. Still one home isn't enough for home-loving Hodge. 
 He bought a place at Kennebunk Beach, Maine, in 1910, and in 
 the summer time the family lives there, and Hodge gets in as 
 much time as the carding and spinning machinery — and all that 
 they mean — permit. Hodge is also a member of the Board of 
 Public Works of the Town of Andover. 
 
 A. W. Hopkins "Little Hoppy" reports modestly that he has 
 
 "worked reasonably hard in the same general 
 practice." After you have read further you will realize that 
 he is a real "live wire," and has worked extra hard, inside and 
 outside of his practice. Inside of his practice, he has been to 
 Hanover several times, and also treated Bill Wason, who suf- 
 fered from abscesses on both ears during his vacation at beau- 
 tiful Swanzey Lake, two miles distant from "Hoppy." T'was 
 hard on Bill, but pleasant for "Hoppy" to see Bill so often. 
 Outside of his medicine, "Hoppy" has been moderator, town 
 and school district, Chairman School Board, Secretary Board 
 of Health, and last of all a member of the Great and General 
 Court. In the last capacity, the Manchester Union printed his 
 
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photo and gave him a good "write-up" under the caption, "Our 
 Law-makers." They mixed in old Den Thompson of "Old 
 Homestead" fame, got him born of Vermont stock at Lyndon- 
 ville, educated at Manchester High and Dartmouth, added all 
 about his local political honors, dashed in that in the present 
 house he was a member of the Committee on Public Health, and 
 ended up with the following beads that came to the top : "Dr. 
 Hopkins is a popular member of the legislature. Socially, he 
 belongs to the Red Men. Personally, he is a very affable gen- 
 tleman and most pleasant to meet." '99-ers knew all this years 
 ago, though maybe not about the Red Men. 
 
 What the Manchester Union man did not discover was that 
 "Hoppy" is a real legislator, the kind there ought to be more 
 of. The "polls" put him on the Committee of Public Health, 
 thinking that would be a quiet corner for anyone with a "Dr." 
 before his name. But when they got to doing away with the 
 vaccination law, they discovered they had a real fight on. The 
 law was preserved. "Hoppy" also drew up a meat inspection 
 law, which was adopted and recommended unanimously by the 
 Committee, but which the "polls," trying to keep the good will 
 of the farmers for other nefarious purposes, and the farmers 
 because they couldn't understand it, killed. "N. H." is, there- 
 fore, still without any protection from deceased and unhealthy 
 meat for fear a farmer might be put to a little trouble in oc- 
 casionally killing a calf. That is a modest way to put it. The 
 bill, however, was good and will probably serve as a model for 
 future law. So it was all worth while. "Hoppy" also helped 
 build a bill for regulation of cold storage products, which will 
 bear fruit later. He also put in some work on a law for de- 
 crease of multiplying the issue of feeble-minded in the State. 
 Republican economy workers killed it in the finance Commit- 
 tee. Still the beginning was made. It's a thankless uphill road 
 for the type of a legislator like "Hoppy," with such perspective 
 and motives. The boss still exists after all Winston Churchill's 
 books, and public opinion needs a lot of education to oblige 
 the boss to take notice. You can read it between the lines in 
 "Hoppy's" resume of his legislative action and the results. It's 
 
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good, however, to see one like him willing to make the attempt. 
 May the discouragements be incentive to further ardor. 
 
 Of course, "Hoppy" did lots of traveling. N. H. legisla- 
 tors are on the road Mondays and Fridays, acoming and agoing. 
 It's hard on the State, but good for them, and it helps like a 
 "freshman dormitory" to democratize the legislators. 
 
 "Hoppy," of course, saw Bob Johnston, Parker, Musgrove, 
 and Silver at Concord. Listen to "Hoppy" thereon : 
 
 "Dave Parker made his usual starry pose in the gold braid, etc., 
 and did it well at the Grand Ball to the Governor the only place he 
 showed at Concord. I suppose he has continued to shine at the Fairs. 
 Dave is a shining light in medicine, he is really doing things worth 
 while in M., and I have just read his paper delivered to the State Med- 
 ical Society, and it is good, showing good sense, much study and very 
 conservative for a younger man. Silver is in a good place, has a good 
 appearance and address, and is filling the place, I should judge. N. H. 
 is profiting from the Normal Schools, and Silver heads the oldest of 
 the Schools. They need good equipment, and are doing well to get 
 anything like what they do, since the recent scares in N. H. politics 
 have caused the economy streak. It is pitiful to see them cut appro- 
 priations to make a good showing. 
 
 "Musgrove is as smart as there is. He is said to be the best 
 Speaker for a long time and as good a parliamentarian in the Senate 
 as ever, quick and sharp. He was at a disadvantage working with the 
 minority in an off year for the minority. There were several things 
 which they failed to slip over our "Mushy," when otherwise they would 
 have been slipped. He kept them awake. (There is no doubt that he 
 with the now discredited other officers had real stuff to show, and if 
 the crowd had not been in so great a majority, they could have showed 
 so the whitewash would not as completely covered.) We will hear 
 more of him yet." 
 
 N. L. Hoskins "Hoss" has moved his offices to 644-665 David 
 
 Whitney Bid., Detroit. Just the numbers as 
 you consider them signify much. "Hoss" modestly puts' it 
 "changed office as above," and to question "What have you 
 done?" replies tersely, "Not much." Fortunately Warren Ken- 
 dall had time on one of his western trips to pay "Hoss" a 
 visit, and "Hoss" admits in the Questionnaire to having seen 
 him. Warren's version varies somewhat from "Hoss' " modest 
 answers, but seems to comport better with the "644-665." (See 
 
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Kendall). "Hoss" is equally modest about his travels. "Few" 
 is the word he uses to describe them, though he confesses to the 
 ownership of two high-power machines. But he did come East 
 for a vacation, and he did visit Hanover. To question "What 
 books, speeches, smoke-talk or otherwise, made?" he fills in 
 after "When?" "Daytime mostly," "Where?" "Wherever an 
 audience could be secured which would not walk out," "How?" 
 "Mostly without stimulation." As mayor, alderman, et al., he 
 thinks he could classify "As any of the above and many more," 
 and for honors received, says briefly, "Langly Academy, but 
 too late for details." Is the last a "Hoskinism" too, like some 
 of the others? Querie? 
 
 G. L. Huckins "Huck" reports that as Construction Engineer 
 
 for the B. & M., he has "kept busy." That's 
 a good sign for B. & M. For his vacation he built an eight- 
 room Camp House, 24' x 28' at Long Beach, Rockport, Mass. 
 "Best spot on the coast for youngsters and others ! Drop in 
 and see," he adds. "Huck" and his family have made a few 
 trips to Plymouth, N. H., his old home, to give the youngsters 
 some mountain air, and the grandparents a chance to empty 
 the cooky jars. 
 
 W. L. Bill Hutch for a long time seemed completely 
 
 Hutchinson lost. Then the middle of December came this 
 
 illuminating letter from Cecil, Pa., dated Dec. 
 16, 1915: 
 
 My dear George: — We are just out of quarantine, — have been closed 
 up here for about two months. All of our children have had scarlet 
 fever ; they are all well again for which we are very thankful. This 
 is why you have not heard from us before. 
 
 There seems to be an impression by some members of the class 
 that T am in the gardening business, which is all wrong. I have a little 
 over 100 acres of land, the crops are corn, oats, wheat and hay, alfalfa. 
 We specialize in registered Guernsey cattle and produce pure milk which 
 we retail. I should like to hear from Raymond Pearl on the chicken 
 question, as we have a nice hunch of white leghorns. 
 
 Sorry we were not able to send out mail before this. Shall be 
 glad to see and read this report. Very sincerely, Bill Hutch. 
 
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In the questionnaire, Bill also stated that as a farmer, he 
 had "worked darned hard," that last February he was in Hano- 
 ver, saw Dave Storrs and Kendall, that he is Treasurer of 
 Venice United Presbyterian Church. These all sound good. 
 
 E. A. Hyatt "Ed" says he has done just the same as last 
 
 year ; "enough said." For addresses he writes, 
 "I've kept awfully still," then he adds, "Address to Graduating 
 Class, St. Albans Hospital Training School." "Not a travel." 
 He goes on, "Didn't even dream of going to San Diego or 
 Frisco." He did go down to Hanover to Phi Kappa Psi Initia- 
 tion Banquet, but that doesn't count evidently as "travel." For 
 a vacation, he just "worked." For honors he classifies as Dea- 
 con First Congregational Society of St. Albans, President St. 
 Albans Business and Professional Men's Ass., and as Vice- 
 President Franklin County Medical Society. 
 
 A. P. Irving "Washington" pores over blue prints in a snug 
 
 little panelled office on the ground floor of the 
 new superb Irving & Casson — Davenport & Co. building in Cop- 
 ley Square when not consulting architects and going over 
 churches and fine residences personally upon matters of interior 
 work and furnishings. It's interesting work and engaging. He 
 has only had an afternoon off now and then to play golf, not- 
 withstanding that the war has had a quieting effect in the under- 
 taking of elaborate and costly church, public and private work. 
 
 R. P. Johnston Our "Bob" is now Vice-President of Stratton 
 
 & Co., Flour Mills. He's polished up the cus- 
 tomers so well that they made him a grand V. P., as Gilbert 
 might have said ; "got by all right," is the way Bob puts it. The 
 characterization seems to cover the situation. His research has 
 been "searching for engine troubles." For talks, etc., he says 
 he has "delivered the History of America 2476 times against my 
 will." Seriously he did deliver the speech at Men's Club, Uni- 
 tarian Church, Brookline, Oct., 1914, and at Retail Lumber- 
 men's Association dinner, Feb. 20, 1915, and Mr. Grozier, Edi- 
 tor of the Boston Post, who happened to be one of the guests 
 
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was so taken with it, that he begged Bob to dictate it to a ste- 
 nographer, and allow him to publish it in the Post. The dic- 
 tation nearly gave Bob a nervous breakdown, but he survived 
 both, 4000 words and also the publication of the speech as a 
 serial in the Sunday Post, beginning March 28, with his photo 
 at the head, and a sprinkling of clever wood cuts punctuating 
 the text every eight inches. Travels for business and pleasure 
 were "a trip to Boston Round Up." Re San Diego and Frisco, 
 he says "wanted to go to White River Jet. Fair but couldn't 
 make it." Been to Hanover? "Sure." Did he plant a garden? 
 "One paper of nasturtiums." How did they do? "Rotten." 
 Re ability to classify as mayor, etc., "I think I could do any of 
 these things if called upon." As for honors, he answers "not 
 a dog-gone honor." He confesses to a summer home "at East- 
 ern Point, Gloucester, Mass. Fine place and expensive as a 
 submarine." So much out of his system, he writes Oct. 3 : 
 
 Dear George: — Your original and comprehensive letter at hand, 
 and nobody could answer all the questions you can think of with the 
 aid of an encyclopedia and all the cribs in Dartmouth college. But 
 I am very glad you are going to get out another report, because the 
 first one was the best thing in that line that has ever come into my 
 dull and uninteresting life. The history of America was surely all in the 
 Post, only you did not look long enough. It was so good they tried 
 to make it last a long time and only ran one chapter every month or 
 so. In regard to the trial of my celebrated friend, Harry Thaw, I will 
 say that I went down to New York along with a carload of other 
 leading citizens of this state, and we got him free from the clutches 
 of the unreasoning authorities in charge of Matteawan. When they 
 got through hearing me testify they were already to let him out and 
 put me in. Get the report out soon, George. Your obedient servant, 
 Robt. P. Johnston. 
 
 Hobe sent in a clipping of Bob's evidence in that Thaw 
 case. It seems that Bob had met Mr. Thaw at parties, and 
 testified that Mr. Thaw on these occasions had refused to dance 
 with young girls. Mr. Cook, the prosecuting attorney, thought 
 that he would play a bit with the witness at this point, so he 
 asked Bob, sarcastically, "Had the 'barnyard walk' and the 
 'kitchen sink,' permeated to New Hampshire?" "No," quietly 
 
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answered Bob, "we still dance in the parlor." Mr. Cook was 
 a bit more careful how he tackled Bob after that. He did, how- 
 ever, venture to ask Bob, "You're not the Anthony Comstock 
 of Concord are you?" "Far from it," responded the witness 
 with a grin, it is reported. 
 
 W. W. Jordan The war and the closing of the Boston & Mon- 
 tana Copper Smelter at Great Falls hit Wesley's 
 rug and carpet business hard. So he disposed of it, and in 
 November took an interest in Lane's 5-10-15-Cent Stores Co., 
 Salt Lake, Utah. Moved his family there about Nov. 18. Be- 
 fore he made the move he did quite a bit of traveling over 
 center of Montana. While in Great Falls, Wesley used to 
 see Tootell frequently, and he says Toot is seriously consider- 
 ing the disposal of his land holdings, moving to city or even re- 
 turning to New Hampshire or some Eastern State. He has 
 seen C. C. Walker '98, a U. S. Inspector of live stock sta- 
 tioned at Williston, N. D. 
 
 C. L. Joy The following letter from Clarence dated 
 
 New Hampton, N. H., November 16, 1915, is 
 better than any secretarial "make up". 
 
 My dear George: — I ought to be shot for neglecting such an earn- 
 est appeal to come up to the help of our secretary. It is treason. It 
 seems useless to write what may be interesting to few, though I am 
 glad to get every item concerning others. 
 
 I am chief cook and bottle-washer in a school of about 140 stu- 
 dents, male and female. We have living alumni and former students 
 some over 4000. Just now we are counting over our Governors in New 
 Hampshire and Massachusetts, Gov. Goodell (recently deceased), Batch- 
 elder, Quimby, Felker in New Hampshire and McCall in Mass. They 
 are all members of our finance committee. If any of the class wish to 
 start their boys on a political career they might do well to enter them 
 here. We can give them thorough training in practical politics as far 
 as filling the governor's chair, and if McCall makes good, may be able 
 to take a select few for presidential training. Our tuition is only $50 
 per year and students can board at Lewis Hall Club at $2.87 per. 
 
 The years are very busy ones. The summer was spent reeling off 
 a few thousand miles looking for students. I am one of the great ma- 
 jority and drive a "fliver." Though the old car has done some over 
 
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18,000 miles she will switch her tail and scratch gravel every time at 
 sight of a hill. If there is anything in New Hampshire that I have 
 not been over it is not laid down on the trails of the Appalachian Club. 
 
 I have but one severe and painful thorn in the flesh. I hate like 
 the nick to confess it but my back hair is going! If enough remains 
 so that I am allowed out in public I shall be present at the next reunion. 
 After reading the Twelfth Report I have concluded that one might as 
 well cash in as miss them. 
 
 I meet many Dartmouth men but only a few of '99. If my ship 
 ever comes in I hope to get my nose off the grindstone and be more 
 sociable. I shall look forward to the coming report and shall be glad 
 
 to hear from all '99 men. Cordially yours, Clarence L. Joy. 
 
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 The secretary can vouch for the capacity of the auto. The 
 cry of "Hello" out of a clear sky, and a back-up that would do 
 credit to a Packard, produced Clarence, with the secretary by 
 the roadside one day in New Hampshire this summer. Clarence 
 had a ton of New Hampton literature aboard. He left one- 
 half pound with the secretary, and a whole lot of good cheer 
 besides, when he spurted away, like Pap on a hundred yard 
 dash, for West Baker's River Valley. Clarence is really doing 
 a great work at New Hampton, and the providing of facilities 
 where energetic and ambitious boys and girls, can live and 
 board themselves, is a step in the right direction toward reduc- 
 ing the high cost of education and making it available for just 
 those hill town youngsters who need it, and who can render a 
 big return to society by having it. Just look at Clarence's list of 
 Governors ! And disinterested men of whom the secretary has 
 inquired say that the New Hampton of today, Clarence's New 
 Hampton, is the same clean sturdy type of school that turned 
 out that line of Governors. 
 
 W. C. Kendall Warren speaks of his work as "plugged along 
 
 trying not to lose ground". From what the 
 secretary hears, though not from Warren, he has all the time 
 been gaining ground. Warren's work is research "after im- 
 proved methods for handling freight cars". That his research 
 has been extensive and result producing was shown by an ad- 
 dress he delivered April 13, 1915, at a dinner of 117 members 
 of the New England Railroad Club held at the American House 
 
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at which he was the chief speaker. The address was upon 
 "Economical Handling of Freight Cars". It was later printed 
 and distributed and for clearness of statement, logical develop- 
 ment and philosophy, it deserves a wider reading than railroad 
 circles. His terse ending "Be a friend and gain a friend", as 
 a working rule for railroad superiors in dealing with under 
 officials is worthy of general human adoption. Warren is upon 
 the executive committee of the New England Railroad Club and 
 has also been put upon its membership committee. In fact 
 since '99 developed his executive committee ability, he is much 
 in demand. At the twelfth annual dinner of St. Johnsbury 
 Academy Alumni, March 27th, he was also put on the execu- 
 tive committee. 
 
 A. E. Kimball Here is a little letter from "Kimmy'', written 
 
 at Ontario, Oregon, November 19, 1915: — 
 
 Dear George : — Since receiving your letter I have been confined 
 to my bed and am not yet feeling like writing much. However, I 
 have managed to fill out the "Questionnaire" which I am mailing to 
 you. There is little more romance in overalls in the West than in the 
 East, and anything I could write would be of interest only from class 
 reasons and its novelty. Really, George, I have only reversed the usual 
 course of Dartmouth men by ending my life on a farm instead of be- 
 ginning it there. 
 
 I am enclosing a check for three dollars, not knowing how I stand 
 as to class dues, but knowing that if I am not at present behind 
 I probably will be. 
 
 As ever yours of the class of '99. Arthur E. Kimball. 
 
 "Interest for class reasons and novelty", aren't these suffi- 
 cient for a whole quarto of writing? Most authors have only 
 the latter as an excuse, while every '99-er thinks the first suffi- 
 cient ; and "Kimmy" had both. Maybe something about his 
 methods of farming might have given us Eastern farmers an 
 idea that would have pulled us out of some two hundred-year- 
 old rut, notwithstanding "Kimmy" characterizes his year's labor 
 as just "average". Maybe if he had just repeated the gist of one 
 of his talks before farmers' organizations, we would have be- 
 come full-fledged, up-to-date farmers. Maybe if he had just 
 
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given us the details of his motor camping trip through the Saw 
 Tooth Range in his trusty Ford, we would be throwing away 
 our copies of "A Woman Homesteader's Elk Hunt", and say- 
 ing "Here is the real thing and we know the author". How- 
 ever, we are all grateful for the glimpses that the replies to the 
 Questionnaire do give; and trust that our "Kimmy" is once 
 more in good health. 
 
 H. B. Kirk Squaw is commercial representative for a Chi- 
 
 cago cement house and travels through Ohio, 
 Indiana, and Illinois with good success to his firm and himself. 
 (See Warren's Wanderings.) 
 
 P. H. Lane "Pete" is one of the our busiest. In addition 
 
 to regular practice, he holds the chair of neu- 
 rology at St. Mary's Hospital, and is lecturer on Lymptomatol- 
 ogy at Medico-chirugical Medical College. "Pete" and Mrs. Lane 
 took in both the San Diego and Frisco Fairs. They went out 
 by water through the Panama Canal, and came back by the way 
 of Denver, Salt Lake, Colorado Springs, and Chicago. For a 
 vacation rest "Pete" tried a bit of farming. He has a farm at 
 Gynedd, Pa., and this year he had seven acres in garden stuff, 
 ten pigs, twelve sheep, two hundred ten hens, and fruit galore. 
 In gardening "Pete" wins the class prize. Later in October he 
 got in a few weeks hunting in the Maine woods, pheasant and 
 deer. "Pete" has just been elected Vice-President of the Phil- 
 adelphia Dartmouth Association. 
 
 A. B. Leavitt "Ike" says he has "worked like hell", but note 
 
 use of small letter h. Along the line of re- 
 search he has done a few rather rare operations, cutting out 
 abnormal growths. He made a speech at the Company D, Sev- 
 enth Regiment dinner, and has had an occasional article in 
 Arms and the Man. For travel he had done to date, October 2, 
 5,800 miles in the new car he got May 1. There was a trip to 
 the White Mountains, and trips to Delaware Water-Gap. His 
 vacation was spent shooting on military teams at Peekskill, Sea 
 Girt and Florida, and also at his summer cottage at Silver 
 
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Lake, near Tilton, N. H. At Camp Whitman in July he ran 
 across Lieutenant Watson of Signal Corps. "Ike" says he was 
 walking in the mud, "Watty" was on horseback, much eclat, etc. 
 (for fuller details see Watson's version). Leslie Farr '02 lives 
 next door to "Ikey", and he ran across Goddard '02, the play- 
 wright, at Long Beach one day this summer. Listen, "Ike" is 
 Trustee of Parents' Association Public School No. 162, and a 
 Deacon in United Presbyterian Church. "Now laugh", says 
 "Ike", "and I'll shake you". 
 
 The New York Sun, March 28, 1915, came out with a 
 headline, "Leavitt Wins on Toss" It went on to state that "the 
 Seventh Regiment Rifle Club Tournament, which had been go- 
 ing on at the armory ranges for last few months, came to an 
 end Friday evening, with A. B. Leavitt of Company D winning 
 class cup, match 4, expert class, with score of 139, that in the 
 time fire class cup, match 2, Leavitt and two others tied, each 
 having shot three possibles during the month. In the shooting 
 Friday evening each had perfect scores, and in matching for 
 the prize Leavitt won". Could that be our Leavitt? 
 
 "Ike" was asked to explain and also to give his ideas as a 
 military expert on "Preparedness". He replied as follows from 
 New York, October 2, 1915:— 
 
 Dear Georgie : — Herewith find replies to your inquisition. You 
 ask me to tell you about my connection with 7th Regiment and about 
 my shooting. Well, you have given me an opening, so look out. 
 
 Yes, I have been a member of Company D, 7th Regiment for 
 two and a half years. Have had lots of fun shooting. That is my 
 hobby. Have won 10 silver cups, and about $100 cash prizes during 
 that time. Also a nice bunch of medals. Won the Company Champion- 
 ship last winter, and won gold bars for best score of Regiment for 
 indoor shooting seasons of 1914 and 1915. 
 
 This summer I made the Regimental team. Our team winning 
 Brigade and State Championships. Corp. Lumby, Sulger and myself 
 of our Company won the Adjutant General's match against 35 best 
 Company teams of the whole State. Thereupon I had gall enough to 
 try for State Team and out of about 150 contestants made 3rd highest 
 score, and consequently am one of the fifteen men to go to Florida 
 to represent State of New York in National Matches. We go to Peeks- 
 kill Oct. 6 for a week's practice, and then to Florida Oct. 13 to 23 
 for matches. This part I may report on later. We also won McAlpin 
 
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Trophy at Sea Girt, and were 2nd in Dryden Trophy. I was only a 
 substitute on this team, but came in for a medal and division of $150 
 cash prizes, etc. 
 
 Last season I went to Sea Girt on my own hook and went into only 
 one match. The Gen. Meany match — 10 shots at 500 yards. Had no 
 chance to fire a single shot for practice, but managed to make 9 bulls 
 and a 4 for a total of 49 out of possible 50, and was tied for first place 
 (75 men shooting). 
 
 This Florida trip we make in a private car which is switched onto 
 a siding for our use during the matches. (Some class, eh, Wat?) I 
 hope "Watty" chokes when he reads all this bragging, because I am 
 only a private and he wears the shoulder straps. 
 
 You ask about "Our Preparedness for War." "There ain't no 
 such animal." That Plattsburg idea is a fine one, and hope it is con- 
 tinued with double the number next year. All college and business men 
 should help this and similar movements along. Our position would be 
 a lamentable one if we should have to engage in war with any first- 
 class power. The days of the Civil War, when a dry goods clerk made 
 as good a soldier as anyone, are past. We need some such system as 
 prevails in Switzerland, where with no standing army yet within two 
 days' time every able-bodied man in the Republic can be mobilized fully 
 equipped for the field, and with sufficient military knowledge to do 
 their duty. What percentage of our able-bodied citizens have any mili- 
 tary knowledge? 
 
 Now, Georgie, get busy and censor this to your heart's delight. 
 Best of wishes to all '99-ers, "Ike," alias A. B. Leavitt. 
 
 Later "Ike" wrote he had a fine time in Florida, shot on 
 team and made a few scores. Again this fall, December 19, 
 1915, "Ike" had his name in The Sun in headline. It said: 
 "A. B. Leavitt of Company D, who leads in the expert class with 
 total score of 138, made a 70 in deliberate fire and 50 in the 
 time fire contest, equalling his score of last season, and equal- 
 ling the armory score". Foreign invaders take notice ! 
 
 F. F. Locke "Napoleon" is still Assistant in the Planning 
 
 Department, United States Navy, Portsmouth. 
 All this naval and military talk hits his department and keeps 
 it on the qui vive. During the summer he got in some little va- 
 cation trips to Sebago Lake, Peak's Island, and Cape Elizabeth, 
 and once had the pleasure of being called over to Bobby Rowe's 
 to look up at Sturtevant, who was in town. L'Empereur reports 
 
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that Sturt looks the same as ever, "smilingly optimistic, rather 
 bald, like myself". "Napoleon" must have had to stretch his 
 neck some to discover this last ! 
 
 Locomobilia Approaching "forty" exactly fifty per cent of 
 
 us still "walk". Of course that doesn't mean 
 that this particular half of us doesn't ride on subways or super- 
 ways, doesn't bus it or taxi it, doesn't ferry boat or steam train 
 it, when it has to, or doesn't go to ride in the autos of generous 
 friends when invited. We do all these sometimes, some of them 
 every day in the year. Still we belong to the 'walking class', 
 i. e., we don't possess a horse or an auto according to the re- 
 turns and we do get about by "walking". 
 
 We may not all of us call it just that. Professor Ford pre- 
 fers "Pedestrianistically" because you don't need any gym 
 work, if you can prevent a snarl up of the front of the word 
 with the rear as it loops itself about the tip of your tongue. 
 Lawyer Hobe likes "Heel and Toe", with its easier swing and 
 certain redolence due to the past. Designer Locke uses "shanks' 
 mare", Schoolmaster Eastman "shanks' mare, 1915 model", 
 which like a cake of sweet chocolate on a railway journey, cheats 
 you into thinking you have the real thing, Professor Gerould 
 simply "two feet". But just what we call it is of little conse- 
 quence, be the term large or small, difficult or easy for the 
 tongue. The more important thing is how we look upon our 
 state. Take Lawyer Atwood, for instance. He walks half a 
 mile from his home to Melrose Station, B. & M.'s it to Boston 
 and walks another half mile to his office and vice versa each 
 day and is "still able to walk the whole distance when required". 
 A vigorous physic and attribut of mind that ! Schoolmaster 
 Barstow says : "I am still a pretty good pedestrian". There's 
 pride there! Lawyer Cavanaugh's emphatic "I am a pedes- 
 trian" is almost vauntingly proud. Even on paper the state- 
 ment sounds like an argument with Buck, Squaw and Tim in 
 Reed Hall with the whole of them against him. Dr. Bonney 
 says "I walk and keep well". Engineer Oakes "Walking is still 
 good for me". Not even an auto could dazzle such sanity ! 
 
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Again one distinguished professor replied "I walk, damn it — 
 walk — walk". Don't such statements exhibit a healthy attitude 
 for approaching "forty"? Most important and healthful of all 
 is the fact that whether we are teachers, learned professors, 
 business men, doctors, bankers, engineers, or clerks, and we are 
 all these, no one of this fifty per cent of us confesses, even 
 sotto voce, to having to walk aided by a stick ! 
 
 It may be doubtful whether Storekeeper Charlie Adams, 
 Professor Gerould or Lieutenant Watson are properly classi- 
 fied in the foregoing group. Twenty years ago the possession 
 of a "bike" and its use would have disqualified, likewise Wat- 
 son's occasional military appearance on horseback which would 
 seem to throw him into the other fifty per cent of us, still to- 
 day such old-fashioned and trifling usages we submit do not 
 misplace them. 
 
 Lawyer Richardson caustically asks "Does any '99-er keep 
 a horse? If so produce him". Yes, Jim, they do. Not one 
 '99-er merely, but fifteeen of them. Dr. Carr, Dr. H. H. Dear- 
 born, Dr. Hyatt each keep one for their winter work, Dr. Hop- 
 kins has a stable of three and one pony for his daughter, in 
 addition to their autos. Jim might say these are necessary tools 
 of their profession ! But then, there is Professor Asakawa who 
 rides horseback for his exercise. You see he is properly qual- 
 ifying for future diplomatic service. Manufacturer Chase 
 keeps what is known colloquially as a "fast hoss". Farmer 
 Clark drives a pair of coal blacks when he is in the country as 
 well as certain aged family heirlooms when gathering up his 
 cider apples. Actor Cogswell's ancient dobbin comes in handy 
 when cruising about his countryside for eggs when his own 
 hens are on a strike. Banker Dubois' span of pure blooded 
 Morgans, think of it, Jim, uphold the best traditions of Ver- 
 mont. Farmer Hutchinson has a barn full of horses and mules 
 for work, pleasure and cussing dummies. Schoolmaster Lynch 
 enjoys "holding the reins" over a fast roadster that he raised 
 and "broke." Country Gentleman Rice also enjoys his drive. 
 The Hon. Mr. Musgrove keeps a horse for sleighing time. 
 Banker Norton has a pony for his boys and Ranchman Tootell 
 
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has a "whole lot of horses," so many that he doesn't even know 
 the count. Even the bare catalogue Jim should make you feel 
 that you ought to "set 'em up." 
 
 It's our list with one leg still in the countryside, a small, 
 very small minority of the other 50% of us, but still a qualify- 
 ing part of such. 
 
 Fifty-six of us run autos and five of these run two apiece. 
 By occupations the interesting divisions are as follows : 1 auto 
 seller, 3 bankers, 12 doctors, 4 engineers, 1 farmer, 7 lawyers, 
 1 minister, 1 real estate man, 3 men of the road, 6 schoolmas- 
 ters. You expect the 12 doctors, but you may be surprised at 
 the Oregon farmer, Kimball, the country parson, Fuller, bring- 
 ing circuit riding down to date and at the large number of 
 schoolmasters, Boston, H. A. Chase, Joy, Martin, Wiggin, Sil- 
 ver. Donny says that Parson Fuller is much more conserva- 
 tive on sin since he "joined the ranks." By "makes" the divi- 
 sion is this: 17 Fords, — more than 25%, — A. J. Abbott, Carr, 
 H. H. Dearborn, Fuller, Galusha, Hodgkins, Hyatt, Joy, Ken- 
 dall, Kimball, Lane, Risley, Rogers, Sewall, Silver, Varney, 
 Wardle; 5 Reos, N. P. Brown, Hopkins, Musgrove, Storrs, J. 
 B. C. Walker ; 5 Hudsons, Ash, Folsom, Hardwick, Hawkes, 
 Winchester ; 5 Overlands, E. A. Abbott, H. B. Chase, C. O. Mil- 
 ler, O'Sullivan, Whittier ; 3 Buicks, Payne, Skinner, Woodman ; 
 3 Studebakers, A. H. Brown, Hoskins, Johnston — (You nat- 
 urally would expect these last two to drive the same type of 
 car) — 2 Cadillacs, Burns, Drew; 2 Chevrolet, Risley, Sleeper; 
 2 Haynes, Cushman, Sears ; 2 Maxwells, Boston, Martin ; 2 
 Whites, Barney, Richardson ; 1 Oakland, Hoskins ; 1 Winton, 
 Irving ; 1 Dodge, Leavitt ; 1 Stanley Steamer, Parker ; 1 Colum- 
 bus Electric, Sargeant ; 1 Stoddard Dayton, Sleeper ; 1 Saxon, 
 Staley ; 1 Pullman Jr., F. A. Walker ; 1 American Underhung 
 and 1 Baker Electric, Wason ; 1 Franklin, Wiggin ; 1 Oldsmo- 
 bile, T. W. Chase ; 1 Packard, Lane. 
 
 Manufacturer Hodge and Schoolmaster Joy call their cars 
 "a Fliver," Railroader Kendall "a Henry," Schoolmaster Silver 
 "a Universal" and "Rab" Abbott went so far as to say he 
 didn't run an auto, but had a "Ford," still we put them down 
 
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as Fords and the Ford people might be interested to know 
 that Dr. Hyatt has run the same Ford for five years and that 
 Dr. Sewall says, "I run my Ford after having had several autos 
 run me for the past 7-8 years" and that one distinguished doc- 
 tor like Lane is not afraid to leave a Ford under cover in the 
 same garage with his Packard. 
 
 By size of families the division is this : five children fami- 
 lies 1 ; four children 2; three children 11 ; two children 12; one 
 child 9; no child 13 ; bachelors 8. In each of the first five groups 
 the number of families possessing autos is exactly 50% of those 
 in the particular group. In the no child group the percentage 
 drops to 41, in the bachelor group to 30%, and of the last, four 
 are doctors. 
 
 The number of water users surprises. Barstow keeps a 
 skiff, Burns a rowboat, Crolius rows on the Monongahela, 
 Huck's limit is a dory, but he has hopes of a real motor-boat 
 with its painter hitched to his dock at Gloucester, Whittier has 
 a flat-bottomed boat on the Sound, Croker has a real motor-boat 
 at North Weymouth, Currier a 26-foot cabin power dory on 
 the Merrimack, W. R. Eastman both steers a motor-boat and 
 sails a yacht on Lake Champlain, Musgrove keeps a motor-boat 
 on Newfound Lake and Sleeper is a real cruising yachtsman 
 every summer though not technically the owner. That's broad- 
 ening out for a lot of land-lubber collegians. The Hon. Mr. 
 Musgrove has gone the farthest of all. He drives a horse, runs 
 an auto and steers a motor-boat. 
 
 T. A. Lynch "Tim" has been teaching as usual a few boys 
 
 to read, write and "figger," the few being hun- 
 dreds. Instead of taking a vacation, he was Principal of the 
 Bigelow Summer Review School, a continuation school which 
 saved seventy-five per cent of the boys one year of school. "It's 
 the best thing for retarded children," says Tim, "and is ac- 
 knowledged by all the best educators as a great thing." The 
 consequence of this vacation work was that Tim got his own 
 vacation by living down at Winthrop, at the shore, and going 
 back and forth to his school, varying it by harbor trips to Nan- 
 
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tasket. He didn't even get a chance to drive his $500 colt, 
 grandson of Benger; and he is thinking of selling him for cash 
 or swapping for a Ford. Are there any Ford takers? 
 
 H. L. Lyster Herbert still runs the creamery. Business has 
 
 been as usual. He didn't get any vacation, but 
 did get in a little trip to St. Johnsbury once. He saw H. O. 
 French at that time. He is a village trustee and also clerk of 
 the school board, which indicates that he got the Tucker inspira- 
 tion for public service, while at Dartmouth. 
 
 L. A. Martin "Fod" has been attempting to develop a Junior 
 
 High School, inaugurating an Agricultural 
 Course, besides his usual work. He also worked during vaca- 
 tion season in Bridgeport, and once while waiting for his train in 
 the station bumped into "Mot" Sargeant and had a soul- warm- 
 ing chat. Referring to the war and his youth in Germany, 
 "Fod" says :— 
 
 "I spent the summer in Bridgeport in the very heart of the ammuni- 
 tion district of New England. Strikes came to be like meals in a res- 
 taurant, continuous, nauseating, and destructive to all except the owner. 
 Eventually they left practically no sensation except a desire for the end. 
 My experiences in Germany were at an age when I was scarcely able 
 to draw conclusions. My powers of observation were rather acute, 
 however. I think now I understand a matter which seriously puzzled 
 me then, viz., why all the lads played practically no games except those 
 which involved tin soldiers. They know the war game. Hence they 
 may win in Europe. God grant they may never tackle America, for 
 it will be a terrible lesson to both contestants." 
 
 C. O. Miller, Jr. Carl is still Secretary and Treasurer and a di- 
 rector in the C. O. Miller Co., and for research 
 during the year he has endeavored with some success to improve 
 the facilities and equipment and efficiency of the Company. The 
 change of home which he and Mrs. Miller made to New Canaan 
 has been the right thing, and they are very comfortable and well, 
 and plan to continue there for another year or two before locat- 
 ing permanently. Carl has given up the Treasurership of the 
 
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Presbyterian Church after nine years' service. He still remains 
 a member of the Board of Trustees. He is Director of the 
 Fidelity Title & Trust Co., belongs to Wee Burn Golf Club, 
 Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford Suburban Club (City Club), 
 New York Dartmouth and D. K. E. Clubs. So you see he has 
 a whole lot of active interest outside of business. Notwith- 
 standing he found time to run for School Board on Progressive 
 ticket, but was defeated. 
 
 Most all of their spare time, he and Mrs. Miller have used 
 for auto trips. With two friends, Dr. and Mrs. Gilman, form- 
 erly of the Bryn Mawr faculty, they made the trip up the Con- 
 necticut to Hanover, spent a night and part of a day there. 
 Were delighted with the "made over" Inn, and the beautiful 
 new Tuck Drive and progressive features about the college. 
 Had pleasure of meeting Dr. Nichols, Prof. Bartlett, and Homer 
 Keyes '00, who was kind enough to open the buildings for their 
 inspection. It gratified him to see everything so prosperous. 
 From Hanover, they went to Waterbury, Vt., climbed Mt. Mans- 
 field. Then their route lay via Burlington, the Hero Islands, 
 Chazy, Plattsburg, Ausable Chasm, Elizabethtown to Lake 
 George, thence via Albany to Lenox and via Hartford to New 
 Canaan. It was a fine trip, 900 miles. Later Carl had a little 
 vacation with a Princeton friend at Twilight Park in Catskills 
 for golf, tennis, and rest. Luke Varney, Hawley Chase, and 
 Witte '98, who seems happy and prosperous, are the only ones 
 he reports seeing. 
 
 Carl owns a lot at Shippan Point, destined for a summer 
 place, but since he has rented the country home at New Canaan, 
 the other is lying fallow. The best part of his report and letter 
 is contained at the end where he says, "Our little Mary Louise 
 seems to be doing fine, and Mrs. Miller and myself have added 
 pounds to our weight since we went to New Canaan." 
 
 H. A. Miller Peddy's capacity for strenuous and worth- 
 while work is remarkable. Since going to 
 Oberlin a year ago, he has established a new department of 
 sociology, given the following addresses, lectures and sermons : 
 
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"The Cause of the War", at the Methodist Church, Oberlin ; 'The 
 Modern Way of Glorifying God", and "Social and Religious Significance 
 of the War", before the College Y. M. C. A.; "Social Problems", be- 
 fore the Promotion Committee of the College Y. M. C. A. ; "The 
 Change in Woman's Duties", before the College Equal Suffrage League; 
 Equal Suffrage speech at Amherst; "Socialism and the Church", First 
 Church, Oberlin; "Habit", Rust Methodist Church, Oberlin; "Other 
 Race Prejudices", before the Douglas Club, Oberlin; "Nationalism" 
 and an illustrated lecture on Bohemia and Russia, before the Cosmo- 
 politan Club, Oberlin ; "Advantage of Difficulties", Chapel talk before 
 the State School for the Deaf, Columbus ; Discussion before the Uni- 
 versity section of the Conference of Charities and Correction, Colum- 
 bus ; "The Soul of the Immigrant", "The Immigrant and Democracy", 
 and "Points of a Good Job", before the Men's Forum of the Second 
 Church, Oberlin; "Health and Heredity", before the W. C. T. U., 
 Oberlin ; "America and the Foreign Student", before the Association 
 of Cosmopolitan Clubs, Columbus ; "Women and War", before the 
 Woman's Bible Class, Olivet, Mich. ; "The Feminist Movement", before 
 the New Century Club, Detroit, Mich. ; "Why Study Socialism", Ober- 
 lin Socialist Club ; "Religion and Duty", before the Colored Men's 
 Christian League, Oberlin; seven lectures on sociological subjects, at 
 Fisk University, three lectures before the Woman's Civic Class, Nor- 
 walk, O. ; "The Contribution of the Slav", before a joint meeting of the 
 Slavonic peoples of Cleveland ; "National Freedom", before a meeting 
 in behalf of the Servian Red Cross, Cleveland; "Righteousness", before 
 the Polish Mission, Cleveland; "The Present Significance of John Hus", 
 at Cleveland, celebrating the five hundredth anniversary of the martyr- 
 dom of Hus ; "Democracy", and "Customs and Traditions", at the 
 Hiram House Settlement, Cleveland ; "The Limits of Socialism", before 
 the Jewish Young People's Socialist League, Cleveland ; "Responsibil- 
 ity for Jewish Ideals" at the Hebrew Free School Synagogue, Cleve- 
 land; "South Slavonic Freedom", before a joint meeting of the Servian, 
 Croatian, and Slavonian Leagues of Cleveland ; "Some Problems of 
 Democracy", at the A. M. E. Church, West Chester, Pa. ; "Play and 
 Playgrounds", before the Playground Assembly, West Chester ; "Con- 
 temporary Religious Expression", at the Friends meeting and "Pur- 
 pose of Higher Education", before the High School, West Chester, Pa. ; 
 "Race Ideals", at an assembly of colored girls of the Pennsylvania Girls' 
 Refuge Home, Darlington, Pa. ; "The War and America", before the 
 staff and honor girls of the Refuge Home; Chapel talk, Tennessee 
 Agricultural and Normal College; talk before the National Convention 
 of the Hungarian Sick and Benefit Association, Turn Hall, West Side, 
 Cleveland ; Equal Suffrage speeches at the Coast Guard's Station, Stone 
 Harbor, N. J., and in Pennsylvania at Downington, Parksburg, New- 
 towns Square, West Chester, Milltown, Berwyn, Mt. Pleasant, and 
 
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Mendenhall ; sermons : "The Promise of Tragedy", at Second Church, 
 Oberlin, and "Democracy and Religion", at the Congregational Church, 
 Olivet, Mich. 
 
 Published the following articles : 
 
 Incomes of College Graduates Fifteen years Out of College, Science, 
 October, 1914; Nationalism in Poland and Bohemia, North American 
 Review, December, 1914, and translated into Bohemian and Lithuanian, 
 and published widely ; Missionary Jingoism and the Immigrant, The 
 Shauffler Memorial, January, 1915; The Slovaks and the Magyars, The 
 American Bi-Monthly, February, 1915; Incomes of College Graduates, 
 The Independent, February, 1915 ; The New President of Fisk Univer- 
 sity, Survey, March 1915 ; The Living Hus, published by the combined 
 Bohemian Societies in connection with the celebration of the five hun- 
 dredth anniversary of the Martyrdom of Hus, Cleveland ; The Bohe- 
 mian Character, a chapter in Bohemia Under Hapsbnrg Misrule, by 
 Thomas Capek, Revell; A Prophecy of Slav Domination, New York 
 Times Sunday Magazine, May, 1915 ; America and the Foreign Stu- 
 dent, Cosmopolitan Student, February, 1915; Nynejsi Vyznam Husuv, 
 a translation of the "Significance of Hus", in the Bohemian Daily Amer- 
 ican, July, 1915. 
 
 Attended the following meetings : 
 
 Ohio Conference of Charities at Columbus, in November ; Associa- 
 tion of Cosmopolitan Clubs, at Columbus, in December; American So- 
 ciological Society, Princeton, N. J. ; National Association of University 
 Professors, at New York, in January, and a meeting of Fisk Univer- 
 sity Trustees, at New York, in February. 
 
 Probably the most interesting things in the above to a '99-er 
 is the publications in two magazines, both Science and Indepen- 
 dent of Peddy's study of our incomes. They drew forth sev- 
 eral newspaper editorials. That of the New York Press March 
 6th interestingly ended: "No amount of learning and classroom 
 training can make a thriving merchant, a prosperous banker, a 
 well-to-do agriculturist, of the student who has no business 
 inclination and displays no ability. But for the capable indi- 
 vidual collegiate work is a preliminary step which makes easier 
 his later career. It gives him a broader view and a firmer grasp 
 of himself. The hard-headed type of self-made man may still 
 
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assert that academic training is a business drawback, yet the 
 world continues to look to college men for its leaders." Such a 
 public deduction repays for all the inquisition of ourselves. 
 The most dramatic thing was probably his talk before 20,000 
 Bohemians and people of other Slav nationalities at Gordon 
 Park, Cleveland, on July 4th, at their celebration of the five 
 hundredth anniversary of the martyrdom of Hus. The Slavic 
 Gymnastic Union composed of Bohemians, Slavonians, Croa- 
 tians, and Servians all assembled and marched to the park and 
 there was a chorus of four hundred from the Slavic Singing 
 Societies. Peddy was the orator of the day and spoke first, 
 the only other person speaking in English was Mayor Baker 
 of Cleveland. 
 
 For a vacation Peddy Says : "I spent the summer in foreign 
 travel in Cleveland, more interesting than Frisco Fair. Got 
 acquainted with a dozen or fifteen immigrant groups. Spent the 
 month among (my kind of people) the coal miners of Pennsyl- 
 vania." As a matter of fact he was making a study of transi- 
 tion from Orthodoxy to reformed among the Jews. 
 
 Peddy says he is only a politically interested private citi- 
 zen. Still he is an adviser to foreign students at Oberlin and 
 has been elected a member of the Cleveland Council of Soci- 
 ology and member of Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and 
 might very properly use the plural of citizen in speaking of him- 
 self. October 4th Peddy writes: 
 
 Having never before been so busy in my life I answer your letter 
 at once lest it get put aside. I thank you for the personal letter, and 
 I wish I could write all you wish. It is only partly modesty that pre- 
 vents me, because I am having such an interesting time, of which I am 
 personally a part, that I enjoy writing about myself. 
 
 1. I think I wrote you after my Fourth of July speech, can't 
 remember whether I did or not. The audience was between fifteen 
 and twenty thousand. The speech was printed in Bohemian, so it 
 will do no good to send you a copy. Hus was the first man to make 
 the break for intellectual and moral independence of the sort which 
 is so dear to everyone now. He is also the symbol of Bohemian 
 nationalism. We are going to have a big meeting at the college next 
 Sunday evening celebrating the anniversary. 
 
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2. I don't know of anything that I would rather do than have a 
 book to my credit, and I think that one of these days I shall have so 
 much to say that it will be unescapable, but I hate to write just as 
 much as I did when I was in college. And I am willing to admit that 
 I was fairly well occupied during the year with fifty-eight speeches and 
 ten articles besides establishing myself in my department. This is all 
 summarized in the report of the president which will be printed about 
 the middle of November when I will send you a copy of the part con- 
 cerning my activities. 
 
 The reason I am busy now is that I am for a few weeks holding 
 down my job here and making a survey of the children of foreign 
 language speaking families in Cleveland. A very exhaustive and radi- 
 cal school investigation is being made by experts of the Russell Sage 
 Foundation and they asked me to do the immigrant part of it. I said 
 I would if they would let me let my report turn on some of my pet 
 theories of nationalisms, and they said go ahead and have not offered 
 a suggestion. During the summer I got next to many parties so that 
 no one knew as well as I where to begin. By working four evenings 
 and Sunday and three afternoons I get in five full days at a very re- 
 spectable per diem, which is the first money I have ever received as an 
 expert, but it is some strenuous, as it takes me from an hour and a 
 half to two hours to go each way, but I am getting some dope. We 
 have thirty-one languages on the string, and I am persona grata with 
 almost every group represented, — Jew, gentile, free thinker, Roman 
 Catholic, Greek Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, pro-ally and anti- 
 ally. I spent the summer doing on my own account much of what I 
 am now doing for the city. I think you will hear it drop when my report 
 comes out, though of course my stuff is a very small part of the whole. 
 
 Hyphenated citizens are not worrying me, not even the Germans, 
 but we must remember that almost every other alien we have is anti- 
 German, especially those from Austria. Last night I attended a Polish 
 meeting to protest against Dumba's butting in. The enclosed clipping 
 from the morning Plain Dealer tones it down very much. One thing 
 that most of those who are shouting about our small military pos- 
 sibilities never have thought of, are the thousands and thousands of 
 young men among us who have had full military training in Europe 
 and who would enlist in a minute for America. You see with the ex- 
 ception of the Germans, Scandinavians and English, — all representing 
 older immigration, — all the "undesirable" immigrants are subject people 
 who are fighting for freedom and America is Free. How often I 
 have heard them say that ! Have you read The Harbor by Earnest 
 Poole, I think that with the exception of Tolstoy's War and Peace it 
 is the best novel I have ever read and I know it is absolutely true. I 
 have seen it. 
 
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At the Polish meeting last night the question of going on a strike 
 that is called today was raised. These men who were many of them 
 citizens of Germany and Austria are all against it. They like nothing 
 better than to make munitions against Germany. 
 
 There are a good many things about which I have no opinions and 
 some about which I have opinions that are no better than anybody's 
 else. I think it is the business of everybody to read and think about 
 the war. The changes in thought and social valuations can be com- 
 pared only to those resulting from the crises of the Protestant Refor- 
 mation and the French Revolution and much depends on thinking out 
 the issues as they are being raised. I myself am very optimistic of 
 the eventual outcome, unimaginably horrible as the present moment is. 
 Sympathetic with the Russians as I am, I think the defeats she has 
 been getting are far the best thing that could happen in the direction 
 of the ultimate development of Russia. That part of Poland leading 
 up to and including Vilna is where I visited in the country. 
 
 I enclose some clippings. I have quite a lot of speaking to do. 
 A paper at the state conference of Charities and Correction early in 
 November and directly after represent Oberlin at the inauguration 
 of the president of Fisk University. I hope some day to be famous 
 enough so that people will want to pay me something for my line of 
 talk. So far it is almost all part of burning desire to make as many peo- 
 ple as possible see a little straight. I like to talk now that few people 
 know as much as I do in my field for they sit up and take notice, and 
 what I call work almost anyone would be willing to pay good money 
 to go along to see. Few people get as much out of a trip to Europe 
 as I got out of Cleveland. Oberlin inherited a clear two million en- 
 dowment last winter and next year we expect a raise in salaries, but 
 even then I shall be on the lower side of the class incomes. Perhaps 
 thus there is an evener division than if it were otherwise. 
 
 We are all of us exceedingly well. No one could have better chil- 
 dren than ours. From the first day of August to the fourth day of 
 September Gustova covered the whole first grade work and is now 
 holding her own in second grade. 
 
 Saw Jerry's Best Seller in Scribner's, but you may imagine I don't 
 read much these days. 
 
 Best wishes to you and Bill and the rest of the crowd. This is 
 the first fall for twenty years that I haven't been to every football 
 game of the season. Peddy. 
 
 The Polish meeting Peddy speaks of was of 1000 Poles 
 held in Polish National Hall, Cleveland, October 3rd. Peddy 
 was among the speakers. At another meeting of the Cleve- 
 land Slavonians, Croatians, and Servians, at which Dr. Nicholas 
 
 IOI 
 
Velimirovich, representative of the South Slavic committee of 
 London, was principal speaker, the South Slavs pledged them- 
 selves to hold aloof from machinations of foreign agents and to 
 use every effort to establish in Europe an independent govern- 
 ment to be known as South Slavia ; Peddy in a speech made 
 the prediction that the conclusion of the war would see the real- 
 ization of the South Slavs' long fight for autonomy. Peddy 
 has a date with Dr. Velimirovich in Belgrade the first summer 
 after the war. 
 
 November 1st Peddy writes: "In last six weeks have done 
 all my teaching, made three more formal addresses, one at De- 
 troit, written a paper to be read at conference of Charities in 
 Dayton Friday, and done twenty-seven and one-half days' work 
 in Cleveland. I consider that some pace. I go to Nashville, 
 Tenn., next week to represent Oberlin at the inauguration of the 
 President of Fisk University, my old stamping ground. After 
 that leisure." 
 
 November 30 he continues : "On Friday I finished my re- 
 port for the survey on the school and the immigrant. It will 
 not be a book, but a booklet, and is on the whole the best thing 
 I have ever done. It is very interesting to write when you 
 know that no one else in the world knows exactly the thing 
 you do and also when you are sure it is going to be published 
 without a single rejection, though it may have to be revised. 
 It also has the virtue of putting us out of the Ford class." 
 
 '99-ers have heard many names mentioned as successors 
 to President Nichols. Why wouldn't our "Pedagogue" be a 
 good man for the place? His work, his ability, his experience 
 seem to be qualifying him for just such a position. He was 
 once offered the presidency of Fisk. He has youth and the 
 strength needed for such a straining position. Furthermore he 
 has the right nickname "Pedagogue". Isn't that, after all, what 
 a president of a great college should be? 
 
 F. A. Musgrove "Mushy's" chief achievement has been the com- 
 pletion of his new $50,000 block on the site of 
 the C. P. Chase property, on April 1. Warren was there the 
 
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day it was opened, and some of the ladies of the town were cel- 
 ebrating the event with a cake sale in the new postoffice quar- 
 ters. Besides the postoffice and the Dartmouth Press, John 
 McCarthy runs a barber shop and pool room in the basement, 
 and there is a tea room there also, — think of it in Hanover ! 
 The telegraph office is on the second floor. On the second floor 
 are also seven business concerns, fourteen students, one fam- 
 ily ; the third floor has a big hall, and the Young Men's Club. 
 The building is arranged to extend upward to height of nine- 
 teen stories. At present there are no elevators. "Some land- 
 lord" this makes "Mushy". It sits lightly upon him. He was 
 elected State Senator Fifteenth District in 1915-1916, and also 
 to School Board to take place of Professor Fay. Notwithstand- 
 ing the salubrity of Hanover for summer vacationing, "Mushy" 
 has bought a cottage over on New Found Lake, in town of He- 
 bron. Fishing is good there, and "Mushy" has a motor boat to 
 tire out the fish. His latest thing was to preside as toastmaster 
 at the Annual Banquet of the Young Men's Club of Hanover 
 held at Inn, December 29. 
 
 Ninety-nine ClassThe total collections for the Class of 1899 
 Fund : One Year Fund for the year which closed with Com- 
 mencement, 1915, were $571.00. The total ex- 
 pense of collection was $29.85. 
 
 To the 127 names on our books, (97 graduates, 30 non- 
 graduate) the Committee sent out three calls, — March 27, May 
 10, and June 7, respectively. All of these calls were accom- 
 panied by stamped, addressed, return envelopes. 
 
 The $571.00 was contributed by 39 men out of these 127. 
 
 Of the graduates : 
 
 33 (34%) contributed. 
 
 17 (18%) gave reasons for not contributing; made promises for 
 
 the future, or declined to contribute. 
 47 (48%) were not heard from. 
 Of the non-graduates : 
 
 6 (20%) contributed. 
 
 3 (10%) gave reasons for not contributing; made promises for 
 the future, or declined to contribute. 
 21 (70%) were not heard from. 
 
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In accordance with a vote of the Class, the year's contribu- 
 tions have been turned over to the Treasurer of Dartmouth Col- 
 lege, as a part of the Alumni Fund on the Tucker Foundation. 
 Only the income is to be used ; the principal is to be kept intact 
 as the Class of 1899 Fund. 
 
 The report of the Committee of the Alumni Council in 
 charge of this Fund, shortly to be issued, will show the results 
 of the campaign among the Alumni in general and the part 
 played by the Class of 1899 in those results. 
 
 The work of the year may be summarized as follows : — 
 
 1. We fell short by $429 of our first goal "$1000 by June, 
 1915." 
 
 2. But it is still perfectly possible for us to attain our 
 final goal "$10,000 in ten years." 
 
 3. With reference to the general Alumni Fund, '99 was 
 well up towards the head in point of actual contributions, and 
 really at the head in percentage of members contributing. 
 
 4. And we got this result in spite of the fact that only 
 one-third of the class were sufficiently interested to contribute, 
 and that more than one-half of the class displayed no interest 
 whatever. 
 
 Your Committee will shortly start the campaign for 1916. 
 To you who contributed we extend the thanks of the Class, and 
 our encouragement to redoubled efforts. As to the silent ma- 
 jority, we call upon you to break your silence. 
 
 The year 1916 promises to be one of improved material 
 prosperity. Let that prosperity be reflected in this Fund. The 
 need of the college is great; its need is our opportunity. Up, 
 men of '99, and meet it. 
 
 A List of all Contributors Follows : 
 
 A. M. Abbott 
 
 Cushman 
 
 Greenwood 
 
 Asakawa 
 
 H. H. Dearborn 
 
 Hoban 
 
 Atwood 
 
 Donahue 
 
 Hodgkins 
 
 Barney 
 
 E. Eastman 
 
 Hopkins 
 
 Barstow 
 
 W. F. Eaton 
 
 Kendall 
 
 Beal 
 
 Evans 
 
 Leavitt 
 
 N. P. Brown 
 
 Ford 
 
 Lynch 
 
 Clark 
 
 Gannon 
 
 Lyster 
 
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H. A. Miller 
 
 Sears 
 
 Norton 
 
 Sewall 
 
 Oakes 
 
 Silver 
 
 Osgood 
 
 Staley 
 
 Richardson 
 
 Storrs 
 
 Sturtevant 
 
 Surrey 
 
 Wardle 
 
 Whittier 
 
 Winchester 
 
 Kenneth Beal 
 
 Willis B. Hodgkins 
 
 T. A. Lynch 
 
 James P. Richardson, (Class Agent) 
 
 Fund Committee 
 
 A. H. W. Norton Doc's report proceeds to set down the names of 
 
 two youngsters not recorded in the secretary's 
 archives ; that his travels have consisted of a trip to Galveston 
 to see his brother ; that he spent his vacation in his own front 
 yard ; that though he is perfectly satisfied to use street cars 
 for himself, yet he keeps a pony for his boys, then adds in his 
 letter: — "You note some family additions. You know (or 
 maybe you don't know) that I was married on May 22, 1912, 
 to Miss Katherine Satcher of this place as I inferred to you in 
 my letter of that date, but there is so much chaff in my letters 
 I guess you have a hard time making much of them. Anyway 
 my family is my largest, most precious and most promising pos- 
 session. I have not yet carried out my plans of moving, nor 
 have I changed them, but circumstances constantly get. in the 
 way so I put it off from season to season, and year to year. I 
 expect to locate eventually near the foot or maybe half way up 
 some of the larger peaks of the Sierra Nevadas, whether Shasta 
 or Whitney I am not yet certain. The mountain country calls 
 to me more and more all the time, but just now I am too busy 
 giving oil leases on some scraps of land I have here with great 
 hopes and expectations, maybe air castles, but things are active 
 hereabout just now, and if this develops as an oil field, why it 
 will be the making of the town. We need something of the 
 sort to cheer us up over the Mexican situation. I hope the 
 football team will keep up its good work of last year. I see they 
 carried off the first game by a good score. I will write again 
 
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shortly, that is if I don't get a gusher, in that event I shall have 
 to do the gushing myself. Give my kind regards to all the boys. 
 I would like to have frequent rag-chews with all of 'em." 
 
 E. L. Nye "Bill" has worked as hard as usual. He went 
 
 out to the convention of local agents in Indian- 
 apolis ; other than this took no vacation. Middleton '98 is with 
 Phandler Co. in Rochester, he puts in ; then adds in his letter : — 
 "I am sorry that my report must be colorless, but it is neverthe- 
 less correct. Everything is going very smoothly with me. I 
 certainly would like to get over to Boston, and intend to make 
 it at some no very distant date. I expect at that time to give 
 myself the pleasure of calling on you and other Dartmouth 
 men." 
 
 L. S. Oakes "Lute" has completed his three and one-half 
 
 years' contract on the Calumet Sag Channel of 
 Chicago. October 3 he wrote, "We are just about ail through 
 here and I leave this week for Minneapolis, then on to Port- 
 land, Ore., for October 20, my wedding day. There is very 
 little work in sight, no railroad work to speak of. We have 
 some irrigation and drainage jobs that will hold over another 
 year, but most of our work will be completed this fall." 
 
 "Lute" probably carries off the prize for travelling mileage. 
 He has been coast to coast twice, and also south of Illinois to 
 Nebraska, Tennessee and Southern Ohio. He was east for a 
 ten days' visit in February, and once again in September upcn 
 the sudden death of his brother-in-law, Dr. Burbridge, of 
 Woodstock, Vt. On his trip west he saw both "Cush" and 
 Smith. 
 
 October 20 "Lute" ws married to Miss Anna Louise Kurtz, 
 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crofts Kurtz, of Portland, 
 Ore. It was a simple home ceremony, performed by Rev. 
 Oswald Taylor of the Grace Memorial Church, before only the 
 nearest relatives and friends. (We quote from the Oregon 
 Daily Journal, October 21, 1915) : "During the few years' res- 
 idence in Portland the bride has won many friends, particularly 
 
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in Irvington Circles, where the family reside. Among her activ- 
 ities have been tennis, rose culture and philanthropic work." 
 These are some of the "particulars" "Lute" skipped. Otherwise 
 we like his own narration, save for the rattle at the end, better. 
 November 22, he writes: — 
 
 I left St. Paul on the 9th of October in company with two cousins, 
 the Misses Armstrong of St. Paul, and Harry Magee of St. Paul, my 
 best man. As the wedding was on the 20th of October, we had a whole 
 week in Portland. It was a grand week and such a jolly good time 
 for all. Met Bishop Sumner at Portland. 
 
 After the wedding we went to "Frisco" then to Santa Barbara, 
 Los Angeles, San Diego, Coronado, Riverside, Grand Canyon of Ari- 
 zona and Kansas City. In all I was gone five weeks. Every day was 
 of interest to us and not a rainy one, although it rained in the evening 
 two or three times. 
 
 We enjoyed the "Frisco" Exposition, especially the beautiful grounds 
 and very artistic buildings. The lighting of the grounds and buildings 
 at night was wonderfully fine. The San Diego Exposition was on a 
 much smaller scale than at "Frisco" but it had its charms and beauties. 
 
 From Los Angeles we roamed by motor through the wonderful 
 fruit groves, over the fine roads and to some of the old missions. At 
 the Grand Canyon we made the descent of the Hermit Trail, stopping 
 over night in the Canyon and returned to the rim the next day. It was 
 a fine trip and well worth the few hardships. 
 
 We have just taken a furnished duplex house apartment in St. 
 Paul, and by the first of December hope to be living the real life of 
 a married man. 
 
 It is almost needless for me to say that I have just spent the 
 happiest five weeks of my life, except as it may be an "eye opener" to 
 you. Remember 1919 is not very far away. You had better get busy. 
 Yours sincerely, Luther Oakes. 
 
 P. M. Osgood Paul has been faithful to his test tubes and 
 
 furnaces during the year. The only time he 
 has been unfaithful was when he attended the National Exposi- 
 tion of Chemical Industries in New York City, September 24- 
 25, and during his vacation at Pemaquid, Maine, where he 
 walked, fished and picked berries, and pictured the scenery and 
 his friends. He reports hving seen "Huck" at his office and 
 home, "Long Jim" and "Donny" et al at Intercollegiate Smoker 
 
 107 
 
of the Club, at Pop Concert, and adds with respect to question 
 24, "Huck's attempts to make his new house at Gloucester 
 water tight are almost tragic." 
 
 W. D. O'Sullivan "Sully" has been very busy acting as salesman, 
 
 auto accessories, and doing well at it. He has 
 been in that business for several years. Last spring in April 
 he organized and conducted a minstrel show for the Catholic 
 Young Men's Association. It was called "An Evening Out". 
 He had a fifteen-piece orchestra, trained the chorus, had a 
 dozen specialties, orchestrated many of the best popular songs 
 for the show. It was a great hit. This was just three weeks 
 after the "Round Up," so probably that had something to do 
 with the success. In September he motored up through the 
 mountains and came down through Hanover. It was the first 
 time he had been there since being graduated. "My, didn't my 
 eyes stick out! But when I walked over towards the corner 
 where Lew Mead's Drug Store used to stand, and asked a 
 couple of students if they had seen Mr. Cavanaugh anywhere 
 about, they touched their hats and gravely said, 'No, sir.' That 
 'no, sir' just bowled me over. I replied, 'Am I as old as all 
 that?' Why, George, that made me seem as old as Methusalah." 
 
 D. W. Parker Dave modestly reports "progressive increase," 
 
 and is the only physician who has not had his 
 business affected by the war. Dave has a new daughter Mary 
 Woodbury born July 31, 1915. For a vacation Dave went to 
 the shore for July, and in September he went up to Hanover 
 for Dartmouth night. Dave makes a gay looking, erect captain 
 of the Governor's staff, and has learned to keep his toes turned 
 outward as though they always had been accustomed to so 
 doing, and can now walk a mile and a half, if necessary, without 
 getting snarled up with his military sword. The Boston Record 
 had a half page of photos of Foundation Day Exercises at 
 Exeter, October 14, and one of them shows Dave in all his 
 military magnificence. What memories it must have awakened 
 in the heart of former Maj. R. P. Johnston! October 28, Dave 
 
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had the misfortune to have his car, as he was journeying to a 
 medical meeting in Boston, run into by another car and badly 
 wrecked. Mrs. Parker and a Miss Cummings, riding with him, 
 were thrown out. Dave was thrown against the wind shield and 
 severely bruised about the face. Dave's younger daughter, who 
 was upon a pillow in a basket in the tonneau, came through the 
 accident unhurt, and fortunately the injury to the ladies was 
 not serious. 
 
 R. W. Payne Celery has had a busy year. For vacationings 
 
 he had a little fishing up in Vermont, and in 
 summer was for a while at the shore. He has made two trips 
 from Greenfield to the shore in his car, and recommends highly 
 the new Mohawk Trail for perfection of road bed and scenery. 
 
 R. Pearl "J onn Philip Sousa" Pearl writes : 
 
 "My work this past year has been, in general, along much the same 
 lines that I have been following for a number of years past. The titles 
 of the publications indicate sufficiently what has been accomplished. 
 I have made no stirring discovery during the year, but such things do 
 not turn up every year. The nearest thing to it is perhaps to be 
 regarded the work I have been doing on the general problem of sex. 
 I have been trying to run down the biological and chemical views of 
 feminism, so to speak. It has been possible to go quite a reasonable 
 step in the direction of isolating a definite chemical substance which 
 keeps females female. It is a material elaborated in certain glands. If 
 these go out of business for any reason the female promptly takes on 
 male characteristics, these sometimes point very far indeed. I fancy 
 that certain especially vinegary old maids have these glands only micro- 
 scopically developed." 
 
 The following list of papers published since fall 1914 in- 
 dicate high pressure activity : 
 
 Studies on the Physiology of Reproduction in the Domestic Fowl. 
 VIII. — On Some Physiological Effects of Ligation, Section or Removal 
 of the Oviduct. Jour. Exper. Zool., Vol. 17, pp. 395-424. 1914. (With 
 M. R. Curtis.) 
 
 Studies on the Physiology of Reproduction in the Domestic Fowl. 
 IX. — On the Effect of Corpus Luteum Substance Upon Ovulation in 
 the Fowl. Jour, of Biological Chemistry, Vol. XIX., No. 2, pp. 263-278. 
 1914. (With F. M. Surface.) 
 
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On the Law Relating Milk Flow to Age in Dairy Cattle. Proc. Soc. 
 Exper. Biol. & Med. Vol. XII, pp. 18-19. 1914. 
 
 On the Refractive Index of the Serum in a Guinea-Chicken Hy- 
 brid. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. & Med. Vol. XII, p. 48. 1914. (With 
 J. W. Gowen.) 
 
 Breeding for Winter Eggs. Farm & Home, Vol. XXXVI, pp. 63 
 and 75. 1915. 
 
 Brief Report of Progress on Animal Husbandry Investigations in 
 1914. Me. Agr. Expt. Stat. Circular 503, Dec, 1914. pp. 1-11. 
 
 Studies on Oat Breeding. II. — Selection within Pure Lines. Ann. 
 Rept. Me. Agr. Expt. Stat. 1915. pp. 1-40. (By F. M. Surface & 
 R. Pearl.) 
 
 Interpolation as a Means of Approximation to the Gamma Func- 
 tion for High Values of N. Science, N. S. Vol. XLI, No. 1057, pp. 
 506-507. Apr. 2, 1915. 
 
 A Case of Assumption of Male Secondary Sex Characters by a 
 Cow. Science. N. S. Vol XLI, pp. 615-616. Apr. 23, 1915. 
 
 Growth Variation in Maize. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. 1, pp. 222- 
 226. April, 1915. (R. P. & F. M. Surface.) 
 
 Mendelian Inheritance of Fecundity in the Domestic Fowl, and 
 Average Flock Production. Amer. Nat., Vol. XLIX, pp. 306-317. 1915. 
 
 Sex Studies VII. — On the Assumption of Male Secondary Char- 
 acters by a Cow with Cystic Degeneration of the Ovaries. Me. Agr. 
 Expt. Stat. Ann. Rept., 1915, pp. 65-80. (R. P. & F. M. Surface.) 
 
 Studies on the Physiology of Reproduction in the Domestic Fowl. 
 XIII. — On the Failure of Extract of Pituitary Body (Anterior Lobe) to 
 Activate the Resting Ovary. Jour. Biol. Chem., Vol. XXI, No. 1, pp. 
 95-101. 1915. (R. P. & F. M. Surface.) 
 
 Dynamic Evolution. A Review. Jour, of Heredity. Vol. VI, No. 
 6, pp. 254-256, 1915. 
 
 Studies on the Physiology of Reproduction in the Domestic Fowl. 
 X. — Further Data on Somatic and Genetic Sterility. Jour. Exper. Zool., 
 Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 45-59. 1915. (M. R. Curtis & R. P.) 
 
 Studies on Bean Breeding. 1. Standard Types of Yellow-eye 
 Beans. Me. Agr. Exp. Stat. Ann. Rept., 1915, pp. 161-176 (Bulletin 239). 
 (With F. M. Surface.) 
 
 Breeding for Sex. Hoard's Dairyman. Vol. L, p. 71, Aug. 13, 1915. 
 
 Studies on Inbreeding. VI. Some Further Considerations Regard- 
 ing Cousins and Related Kinds of Mating. Amer. Nat. Vol. XLIX, pp. 
 570-575. 1915. 
 
 Growth and Variation in Maize. Zeitsch. f. ind. Abst. u. Vereb. 
 lehre. Bd. XTV, Heft 3 & 4. 1915. (With F. M. Surface.) 
 
 Tn addition Raymond has two books in press with Mac- 
 Millan to be out before the end of the year, titles : "Modes of 
 
 no 
 
Research in Genetics," "Diseases of Poultry." Pearl says, as 
 you can readily see, these should be in the hands of every '99-er. 
 Do you wonder he hasn't had any vacation ? How he gets time 
 with Tony Willard to be a member of the Democratic Town 
 Committee, member Advisory Committee Layman's Christian 
 Federation of Maine (His guaranty of respectability as he puts 
 it) you don't quite see. For honors he has been elected to the 
 American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. Of this Pearl 
 says, "I suppose it is the biggest honor which has come to me. 
 Election is purely honorary and given but to 15 men each year. 
 When I look at the list of 'big wigs' who are my fellow mem- 
 bers, I feel that a mistake was made. Walt Adams '98 went in 
 this year also, which is hitting it hard for old Dartmouth in 
 one year." For travel, Raymond only got as far as Connecti- 
 cut this summer, where he addressed a gathering of poultry 
 men. Last year he bought a farm in Bucksport, Maine, Spade 
 Heywood's port, but he says "if you hear of anyone who wants 
 to buy a farm let me know, I have one for sale." The only 
 '99-ers Pearl sees are Tony and Woodman. Sprague '00 is on 
 U. of M. faculty now. Not being able to go to any Dartmouth 
 meeting, he rounded up one of his own to meet Laycock when 
 he attended a Dean's meeting at Orono and was staying with 
 the Pearls. 
 
 G. J. Prescott George's year in business has been very active 
 
 and interesting, but with respect to social and 
 entertaining activities he reports having been very inactive. For 
 a vacation he was in New Hampshire during the rainy season, 
 i.e., July; and also spent week ends at Spring Lake in New 
 Jersey. George sticks pretty close to New York City. 
 
 Progeny: — The bachelor member of the executive com- 
 
 Ourselves over mittee one day last summer suddenly awoke to 
 again. the fact that '99's family of children is fast 
 
 getting "grown up." Strangely his married fel- 
 low committee-men hadn't noticed it. Probably in his case it 
 was due to a detached viewpoint suddenly confronted with the 
 
 in 
 
whoop of a live trio of the second generation. A little tabula- 
 tion from such data as the archives possessed verified and mag- 
 nified the feeling. It indicated that a large number of young- 
 sters had reached an age where he thinks they begin to show 
 a real individuality, not always may be with a consistency to 
 one trend, for it's been his observation that youngsters are very 
 much like colts, you can never tell just which way they are going 
 to shy, still with a whole lot more individuality than they have 
 earlier so far as bachelors have the opportunity to observe. 
 Therefore with the somewhat hesitant consent of the married 
 members the committee decided to play the role of Mr. Pepys 
 and have a real "casting up of accounts" with respect to "our 
 children." 
 
 At 11 p. m., December 31, 1915, "the family" consisted of 
 163 youngsters. Brigham Young couldn't sneeze at that. There 
 are 81 boys and 82 girls, so unless there are changes it's likely 
 to be anti-suffrage at least until the members reach "maturity." 
 So much for the family as a whole. When you begin to break 
 it up into its components you discover this interesting data with 
 respect to the size of the component families. 
 
 There are 3 five-children families ; 3 four-children families ; 
 22 three-children families ; 25 two-children families ; 20 one- 
 child families ; 34 no-child families ; 28 bachelors, the last thrown 
 in merely as a balancing figure to get class total of 135. Al- 
 though the classification is of living children, we include de- 
 ceased members of the class in reckoning. With respect to 
 urbanity, the list is five-children families, 2 urban, 1 non-urban ; 
 four-children families, 1 urban, 2 non-urban ; three-children 
 families, 14 urban, 8 non-urban ; two-children families, 19 ur- 
 ban, 6 non-urban ; one-child families, 10 urban, 10 non-urban. 
 This is thrown in for the sociologists to "chew" upon. Ash, 
 Cavanaugh and Norton tie for first place, Ash and Norton have 
 2 boys and 3 girls each and Cav gets away with 3 boys and 2 
 girls. Beal, Hodgkins and Fuller are running close seconds, 
 Beal with his four boys, Hodgkins 3 boys and 1 girl, Fuller 2 
 boys and 2 girls. Beal has the distinction of being the only man 
 in the class who can put on to the gridiron a complete "back- 
 
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field." However, it's to be noted that so far the class is far 
 from being able to matriculate at Dartmouth a class of boys of 
 its own size, and does not possess much more than a ''margin 
 of safety" when it comes to reproducing itself. 
 
 More interesting, however, is the fact that there are 55 
 children eight years old (1915) and over, scattered in 36 dif- 
 ferent families. Just why the secretary should make the divi- 
 sion line at eight years is probably a caprice of bachelorhood. 
 He had to make a line somewhere in self-defense. Still the fol- 
 lowing table (comprising all '99 children, aged eight or over) 
 is bristling with suggestiveness. There's a Lyster, a Rowe, a 
 Johnston that will be ready to enter Dartmouth together in two 
 years and Ike's son ought to be with them. The class of 1928 
 will see the names of A. M. Abbott, Jr., and Kenneth Beal 
 repeated and the possible grouping of familiar patronymics in 
 the future classes of Smith, Vassar, or Bryn Mawr hold out 
 wonderful possibilities. 
 
 15 Years Old 
 
 Height 
 
 
 Weight 
 
 School Grade 
 
 Ronald B. Leavitt 
 
 5 ft. 8/ 
 
 in. 
 
 138 lbs. 
 
 1st vear "rligh 
 
 Leland C. Lyster 
 
 5 " 93/ 
 
 << 
 
 132 " 
 
 2nd* 
 
 " u 
 
 Francis R. Rowe 
 
 5 " 
 
 
 100 " 
 
 2nd 
 
 << << 
 
 14 Years Old 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 John W. Johnston 
 
 5 " 7/ 
 
 tt 
 
 124 " 
 
 2nd 
 
 <( <« 
 
 Ruth M. Wiggin 
 
 5 " 6 
 
 (< 
 
 105 " 
 
 1st 
 
 «( << 
 
 13 Years Old 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elizabeth M. Adams 
 
 5 " 3 
 
 << 
 
 115 " 
 
 8th 
 
 Grade 
 
 Russell T. Rowe 
 
 4 " 9 
 
 <( 
 
 90 " 
 
 
 
 Harold A. Wiggin 
 
 4 "10 
 
 u 
 
 87 " 
 
 7th 
 
 u 
 
 12 Years Old 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Homer M. Ash 
 
 4 " 7 
 
 <« 
 
 71 " 
 
 5th 
 
 tt 
 
 Richard S. Nye 
 
 5 ■ 
 
 
 90/" 
 
 7th 
 
 <« 
 
 Dorothy D. Tootell 
 
 
 
 
 8th 
 
 << 
 
 11 Years Old 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Herbert E. Adams 
 
 4 " 9 
 
 << 
 
 86 " 
 
 7th 
 
 a 
 
 Ruth E. Ash 
 
 4 "11/ 
 
 << 
 
 92/" 
 
 5th 
 
 « 
 
 Marie L. Barstow 
 
 4 " 93/ 
 
 << 
 
 72 " 
 
 7th-B " 
 
 Arthur R. Beal 
 
 4 " 6/ 
 
 «< 
 
 67/" 
 
 6th 
 
 tt 
 
 Mark Fuller 
 
 4 "10 
 
 «< 
 
 90 " 
 
 8th 
 
 «« 
 
 Allen T. Hyatt 
 
 
 
 
 5th 
 
 « 
 
 Pauline L. Joy 
 
 4 " 7 
 
 << 
 
 115 " 
 
 8th 
 
 « 
 
 Roger K. Staley 
 
 4 " 8/ 
 
 << 
 
 76 " 
 
 5th 
 
 tt 
 
 Robert B. Tootell 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gratia Wardle 
 
 4 " 4/ 
 
 << 
 
 S7y 2 " 
 
 5th 
 
 tt 
 
 "3 
 
10 Years Old 
 
 Height 
 
 
 IV eight 
 
 Schi 
 
 10I Grade 
 
 Mabel G. Ash 
 
 4 
 
 n 
 
 4 
 
 « 
 
 62/ " 
 
 4th 
 
 a 
 
 Frederick C. Baldwin 
 
 4 
 
 n 
 
 3 
 
 «« 
 
 72 " 
 
 5th 
 
 a 
 
 Olive M. Barstow 
 
 4 
 
 ti 
 
 7H 
 
 « 
 
 56 " 
 
 5th 
 
 a 
 
 Charlotte R. Brown 
 
 4 
 
 u 
 
 
 
 90 " 
 
 6th 
 
 a 
 
 Marcia Fuller 
 
 4 
 
 << 
 
 6 
 
 <t 
 
 85 " 
 
 4th 
 
 ti 
 
 Georgia E. Hawkes 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Barbara Hodgkins 
 
 4 
 
 << 
 
 6 
 
 << 
 
 70 " 
 
 6th 
 
 it 
 
 Arnold S. Hyatt 
 
 4 
 
 it 
 
 5^4 
 
 « 
 
 62 " 
 
 5th 
 
 a 
 
 Karl P. Ladd 
 
 4 
 
 ii 
 
 4 
 
 << 
 
 60 " 
 
 4th 
 
 u 
 
 Margaret B. Norton 
 
 4 
 
 it 
 
 5/ 
 
 « 
 
 60 " 
 
 4th 
 
 it 
 
 Lilian M. Risley 
 
 4 
 
 <( 
 
 6 
 
 << 
 
 66 " 
 
 5th 
 
 a 
 
 Walter G. Staley 
 
 4 
 
 « 
 
 5% 
 
 M 
 
 68/ " 
 
 5th 
 
 a 
 
 9 Years Old 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 A. M. Abbott, Jr. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4th 
 
 a 
 
 Marion Baldwin 
 
 4 
 
 <« 
 
 4 
 
 <( 
 
 74 " 
 
 4th 
 
 a 
 
 Kenneth M. Beal 
 
 4 
 
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 Following are some intimate glimpses of the foregoing by 
 their mothers with now and then a father : 
 
 1 Myrtle Ave., Plainfield, N. J., 
 
 A. M. Abbott, Jr. 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark :— Mr s- A. M. Abbott 
 
 The fake garden mentioned in Mr. Abbott's 
 letter was really true, as I, who with great labor planted the 
 seeds can truly testify. Let me tell you that you are a man of great 
 recklessness to turn to mothers for accurate statistics of their sons. 
 Who knows what flights of imagination may conceal the real facts con- 
 cerning their prowess or lack of same. However, since it's mothers to 
 the front, here goes. 
 
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A. M., Jr., tall, slim, brown-eyed and golden-haired, seems, at the 
 age of nine, to be skipping along through life with considerable speed. 
 Somewhere among his venerable ancestors there must have been a 
 fish, for the summer has shown that the land can offer no attractions 
 equal to those of the water when it comes to having real sport. Spring- 
 board diving, swimming under water for amazing distances, and row- 
 ing by the hour or paddling seem to be his favorite pastimes, or else 
 with rod and basket to fish for an indefinite time alone and unassisted, 
 seated upon a friendly rock until all others leave the grounds discour- 
 aged and night begins to fall. 
 
 Reporting every day for work in "4th grade Public" is a rather 
 irksome idea now that summer is over, but possibly with a few stones 
 in the pocket and a sling-shot in the belt, a baseball and a football, not 
 to mention a younger brother used for scrapping purposes, the winter 
 may be gotten through quite comfortably. Such annoyances as appear- 
 ing in the choir every Sunday, and going, in spotless attire, to dancing 
 school once a week are tolerated with very little complaint. In fact, 
 A. M., Jr., is quite a pleasant chap to live with, at times. 
 
 As to his future, when last questioned on the subject he said he 
 was going to be just what Daddy was; for all you had to do was sit 
 on a bench and smoke cigarettes. This restful picture is of a broker's 
 office in case all who read do not happen to know just what Daddy 
 does. Being Pap's son he will incidentally spend a few years in Hano- 
 ver enroute to Wall Street unless present plans are changed. Very 
 sincerely yours, Maude Earle Abbott. 
 
 145 Court St., Keene, N. H., Nov. 8, 1915, Elizabeth and 
 
 Herbert Adams 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark: — 
 
 I am so glad the children are to be in the next Mrs. C. E. Adams 
 report. 
 
 Elizabeth is a tall, long-legged girl of thirteen, long, heavy straight 
 hair, brown and in places black, the kind that will be black as she 
 grows older. She has brown eyes, oval face, little "snub" nose, 
 a good deal of color, but freckles, lots of freckles ! She is 
 strong, broad-shouldered, with a decided taste for athletics. 
 She can beat any of her brother's friends running, jumping, 
 chinning the bar and so on. I believe she is particularly good at turn- 
 ing somersaults on the ladder. She loves volley ball and swimming. 
 Can dance but doesn't care so much for that. She is in the eighth 
 grade at school, and her report cards are full of E's. Once in a while 
 her heart is almost broken by a G. Last year she misspelled only one 
 word during the whole year. Her plain sewing is good. Embroidery 
 not so good. She should have credit for conscientious practice on the 
 piano. When she first started music years ago, she said, "I am not 
 naturally musical like some of the other girls, so I must practice more." 
 
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She has done so and really does better than some of those same girls 
 now. She is just starting cooking. She is an enthusiastic campfirc 
 girl, and works hard for honors, and is accumulating beads. 
 
 I have had to restrain Elizabeth up to now as she will overwork 
 if allowed to do as she likes. She used to be a very nervous child, but 
 her out-of-door activities have developed her into a healthy girl. As 
 to what she will be when she grows up, she is undecided whether to 
 be an actress or a member of the faculty at Wellesley. 
 
 Herbert is a thick-set little fellow of eleven. He has thick brown 
 hair, brown eyes, lighter complexion than his sister, red cheeks and 
 freckles. In the spring he plays marbles. In the summer he plays 
 or talks baseball all day, and dreams of baseball at night. He likes 
 football, but baseball is the best thing ever to him. He can swim, 
 but doesn't care for running or jumping so much, cannot chin the bar. 
 He belongs to the Y.M.C.A. and enjoys the gymnasium very much. 
 He is in the seventh grade in school and gets very good reports, but 
 not so good as his sister's. His teachers tell us he is amongst the best, 
 and we have no reason to find fault. 
 
 Both children are very fond of reading. Music comes easy to 
 Herbert, but practice on scales is another matter. He would like to 
 spend practice time playing bugle calls and improvising. Has an aston- 
 ishing number of accidents. Cut his finger with his jack-knife, right 
 through the nail, couldn't practice for a week. Sprained his wrist an- 
 other week. He hurt his elbow, and he strained his hip so it hurt to 
 sit at the piano. His teacher has promised to come up and nurse him 
 if he is so seriously injured again. Last week we got in all but one 
 half an hour practice time, so I am hopeful. That's the best we have 
 done since lessons started the first part of September. He is a good 
 dancer and enjoys it. He keeps the wood-box full when he doesn't 
 forget it, rakes leaves, mows lawn, waters the hens and does errands. 
 Saturday, I told him of an errand he must do, and he said he won- 
 dered if "people think a fellow never wants to play." He is building 
 an automobile af present. Herbert is not at all undecided about what 
 he will be when he grows up. He is to be a catcher on one of the big 
 league nines. Sincerely yours, Mary C. Adams. 
 
 Corvallis, Oregon, Dec. 20, 1915, „ „ , 
 
 ' fe ' ' ' Homer, Ruth and 
 
 _ _, _ Mabel Ash 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — 
 
 Regarding the children, I have mislaid your Mrs. John W. Ash 
 letter with the questions and must just guess at 
 most of them, but I will do the best I can. Homer and 
 Ruth are in the fifth grade, Mabel is in the fourth grade. 
 They have been in school three years. They are just ordi- 
 nary children, nothing wonderful. However, Ruth Ellen is a very 
 good little cook. She can bake cake, bread, and baked-beans and 
 
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brown-bread, and last year she won blue and red ribbons at the Chat- 
 tanooga school on cooking and garden truck. Homer was "water-boy" 
 this summer for his father on some street-paving, and earned quite a 
 little money. They were all in a play at the theatre here not long 
 ago, Homer and Ruth and Mabel in "The Boy Blue" Cantata, J. W., 
 Jr., and Alice in a Tom Thumb wedding. Outside of that there is 
 nothing further to say. 
 
 On the trip here the three older children all had their work to do. 
 The girls carried water, got the milk, butter and eggs, and Homer 
 helped his father with the camp outfit; getting fires ready, canvas up, etc. 
 
 I am sorry I mislaid or lost the slip you sent, but I think this will 
 probably be as much as you wish. Yours truly, Mrs. John W . Ash. 
 
 Barton, Vt., Oct. 7, 1915, 
 
 , , , , ~ Fred and 
 
 MY DEAR Mr. CLARK:- Marion Baldwin 
 
 Surely your effort in obtaining a chapter for 
 
 the children of the '99 Class will prove an interest- Mrs. E. G. Baldwin 
 ing feature and well worth while. 
 
 Frederick is a wide-awake lad of ten, well - proportioned, 
 height four feet three inches, weight seventy-two pounds, fifth 
 grade at public school, and stands above the average in his 
 class, being persistent in his efforts to know the whys and 
 wherefores. At present he seems to have a mechanical turn of mind. 
 Ambitious to become a Boy Scout when he is twelve (we have no 
 Junior organization) and he is a regular attendant of Sunday School. 
 He is interested in animal and plant life and until this year has always 
 had a garden. Fishing is his favorite pastime and he most enjoys 
 going by himself for he says "the other fellows scare the fish." 
 
 1 just mention the other children Marion nine, and Paul six, grades 
 four and first respectively. Truly yours, Mrs. Edward G. Baldwin. 
 
 197 Marion St., Springfield, Mass., Oct. 24, 1915. 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark:- Olive Barstow 
 
 In reply to your questions, I shall have to take 
 them in order there are so many. Our little girls, Mrs * E> w> Barstow 
 Marie and Olive are both rather small for their ages. 
 The older is light with hazel eyes, the younger dark with brown eyes. 
 Marie is in 7 B grade Public School, Olive in 5 A. Marie plays the 
 piano and Olive the violin. They are both exceedingly fond of play and 
 also reading books, history, geography or fiction. Like all good little 
 girls, they love their dolls and are very fond of babies. They wipe 
 dishes every day and can sometimes flourish the dust cloth if necessary. 
 As to their ambitions, I fear it is a little early to say. Sincerely, 
 
 L. Gertrude Barstow. 
 
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32 Fern St., Auburndale, Mass., Oct. 5, 1915. 
 
 Arthur and 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — Malcolm Beal 
 
 1 think most mothers enjoy talking of their chil- Mrs K Beal 
 
 dren and I am not an exception. I am sure I shall 
 like to read about the other children of '99. I always look forward each 
 year to the class report, and I will gladly do what I can to help. 
 
 Arthur Roscoe is about the average size of a boy of eleven. He has 
 large blue eyes, and dark brown hair, and I think looks very much like 
 his father. He is like his father in a great many ways. He is in the 
 sixth grade of the Williams public school of Auburndale. He learns 
 easily, and usually has a good report card. Arthur is very clever with 
 his hands, building or cutting out almost anything he wishes. His espe- 
 cial delight just now is to make automobiles with "Meccano". He wants 
 to te an architect when he grows up. 
 
 Kenneth Malcolm, whom we call Malcolm, is rather stout and more 
 rugged-looking than Arthur. He has dark brown eyes, and brown 
 hair, and rosy cheeks, usually singing and whistling. I forgot to say 
 Arthur is rather inclined to be serious. They are the best of play- 
 mates. Malcolm is in the fifth grade in the same school with Arthur. 
 He does well though having to study harder than Arthur. 
 
 The boys do the dishes, set the table, sweep rugs and stairs, polish 
 faucets, make beds, bring in the ash barrels, and dress the baby. Arthur 
 sometimes cooks the cereal for breakfast, or scrambles eggs. We pay 
 them for the dishes which they do regularly, as I have no hired help ; 
 so in that way they earn some spending money. Arthur also has begun 
 to go as helper, on a farmer's wagon, on Tuesday afternoons and all day 
 Saturday, peddling vegetables. 
 
 They like baseball, and football, and Arthur is fond of checkers, 
 and indoor games in general. Malcolm reads a good deal. He likes 
 poetry. He also sings, and Arthur plays on the piano some. Malcolm 
 thinks he would like to be a doctor, and says he is going to Dartmouth. 
 
 They sometimes think there is no reason why their father can't 
 have an automobile, and they quote to him the different makes and prices. 
 They can tell at a glance just what kind of a car it is as it goes whiz- 
 zing past. 
 
 I think I have said enough to have you understand that they are 
 just hearty, healthy boys. Nothing unusual, but a great joy as well as 
 anxiety to Kenneth and me. Sincerely, Annie May Beal. 
 
 186 Linden St., Everett, Mass., Jan. 10, 1916. „, , 
 
 ' J Charlotte and 
 
 My DEAR Mr. Clark:— Eleanor Brown 
 
 You have asked for some information concerning Mrs N> p Brown 
 Charlotte and Eleanor for the class report. 
 
 Charlotte is about four feet in height, slender, and weighs around 
 ninety pounds. Her hair is, at present, light, though I fear it will grow 
 
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dark to match her eyes, which are a good brown. I do not think she 
 looks like either Nelson or myself. Her disposition is very good, as 
 she has much patience, and seldom lets her temper get away from her, 
 but we know that she has one, as it asserts itself on occasions. She 
 enjoys her work at school, and this year has gone into the sixth grade, 
 where the work is more interesting. Just now arithmetic and spelling 
 seem to be her favorites, grammar and reading not being very popular 
 with her. As she reads more stories I think the enjoyment of that will 
 come. She is deep in "Little Women,'' and finds it hard to leave, espe- 
 cially at bedtime. Her specialty is music, piano, in which she finds keen 
 pleasure, and never has to be urged to practice. Her chief ambition, 
 therefore, is to be a music teacher. She has a little tendency for draw- 
 ing which I hope will increase. 
 
 Eleanor is very much unlike Charlotte, as so often happens. She 
 is around three feet and a half tall, and weighs seventy pounds. Her 
 hair has a reddish tinge, and her eyes are a deep brown. She seems 
 to resemble our family most. In disposition she is not like Nelson, for 
 she has a very quick temper, but it subsides as quickly, and she is ex- 
 tremely active in every way. So far we have not found a satisfactory 
 channel for her energy, as she is not quite old enough to have decided 
 tastes. She does not like school very much, but gets on well, being in 
 the fourth grade this year. It is hard to tell what appeals to her for 
 she is changeable, but I think in studies, arithmetic, she likes best. 
 She enjoys reading "Alice in Wonderland," and Fairy Tales. I really 
 do not know what her ambitions are, for nothing is settled in her 
 mind. She is fast beginning to have a desire to do something with 
 music. 
 
 We have not settled on any special way for money to be earned, 
 sometimes something comes up so that they can earn, but it is usually 
 given them for what is necessary. Games and plays are the same as 
 most children, — whatever the crowd wants to do. Playing school they 
 like. Dolls do not appeal to either of them often. This summer in 
 Hanover, Charlotte played golf and had her bicycle, and Eleanor will 
 do the same this coming summer. 
 
 I hope that you will be able to work this over enough so as to 
 form some kind of a presentable picture. Most sincerely, Mar- 
 
 garet Tucker Brown. 
 
 430 South Fortieth St., Omaha, Neb. 
 
 Barbara and 
 My DEAR Mr. Clark:— Marjorie Burns 
 
 I am more than sorry to have left your letter so Mrs. S. Burns, Jr. 
 long unanswered, but it was really impossible for me 
 to get to it before. I know Mr. Burns has written you of the very 
 serious accident to our oldest little girl, and, of course, you will under- 
 stand that it was out of the question for me to find a moment to write, 
 
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while she was so ill. I hope now that I am not too late to comply with 
 your request, and, I feel, perhaps, anyway that there is not enough of 
 interest about our children to be of use to you. 
 
 Barbara (aged nine) is tall for her age, with dark hair and eyes, 
 and is blessed with a degree of good looks, which I cannot feel is inher- 
 ited from either her mother or father; some remote ancestor, no doubt. 
 She goes to a private school, is a pretty good student and excels, 1 
 should say to a degree, in spelling. She likes poetry more than any 
 other kind of reading, and can learn it by heart with wonderful facility. 
 She is conscientious ; has a great ability for making friends and remem- 
 bering them; and is over-thoughtful for a child of her years. She says 
 she wants to be a school-teacher, but, since her accident, I notice she has 
 a slight leaning towards nursing as a profession. Faults she has, but 
 over those we will draw a veil. 
 
 Our youngest, Marjorie, age five, is also tall for her age, with blue 
 eyes and light brown hair, and is in looks very like her mother. She 
 is a bit too young to have made many strides intellectually, but her 
 temperament is individual to a degree. She has an amount of vivacity 
 or "pep" which is more or less difficult to handle and, from her taste in 
 amusements, was evidently a boy, spoiled in the making. Rebukes roll 
 off her mind like the proverbial water from a duck, and she has a fund 
 of energy, which is apparently without end. To describe Marjorie is 
 impossible, one has to see her. 
 
 I might add that both the children are extremely well, and that I 
 have tried to follow the modern system of "raising" them. They both 
 sleep on a porch all the year round. 
 
 I hope that this is the sort of information that you wanted, and 
 that I have not enlarged too much. Very cordially yours, Mar- 
 
 guerite Preston Burns. 
 
 213 Summer St., Stamford, Conn., Nov. 12, 1915. „ 
 
 Janet Chase 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark:— Mrs. H. B. Chase 
 
 Janet Fulton Chase is nine years old, is very 
 lively, always seeing the funny side of things. She is in the fifth grade 
 in school. Her first year of kindergarten she attended the Catherine 
 Aiken School, but since has attended public school of which her father 
 is principal. She has stood very well in her studies thus far. While she 
 has some household duties, such as putting her room in order, which 
 she does quite well, she is especially fond of outdoor sports, in fact we 
 call her an "all round" girl. She attends church and Sunday School very 
 regularly. She is four feet and six inches in height, and weighs seventy- 
 five pounds, has blue eyes and brown hair, is the image of her father. 
 
 Her ambition seems to be a teacher; however, she is rather young 
 yet to know what she wants to be. A small allowance is given her, 
 
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but she earns other money by doing errands, and earns enough to pur- 
 chase Christmas gifts for the family. Sincerely, Margaret V. 
 Chase. 
 
 5 No. Hartford Ave., Atlantic City, N.J., Oct. 13, 1915. 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark :— Dorothy Eastman 
 
 In reply to your letter of October 4th in regard Mrs. E. Eastman 
 to the children, will try to give you some help. 
 
 Dorothy is in Fourth grade, A Section, of the Richmond Ave. Pub- 
 lic School of this city and so far has maintained a high standing. She 
 is also taking vocal music lessons and doing very well. When out of 
 doors, roller-skating is her favorite pastime, while indoors, it is "play- 
 ing school" with her dolls or playmates. At present she thinks she 
 would like to become a kindergarten teacher. She is four feet four 
 inches tall, of medium build, weighs about sixty-three pounds, light 
 complexioned, with brown eyes. 
 
 Now that she is attending school, her household duties are few, be- 
 ing mainly to take care of her clothes and playthings, but in the sum- 
 mer she runs various errands, helps set the table, etc. While in New 
 Hampshire in the summer she plants and cares for a miniature garden. 
 She is as good as an adult "on a sprint" at berry-picking, but tires on 
 the "long distance." She has a good score as a little fisherwoman. 
 
 The children are as one in their delight in tree-climbing, surf-bath- 
 ing, gardening and fishing. Acting together, they constitute a "pipe- 
 line" efficiently conveying our drinking water from the spring to our 
 house in New Hampshire. The children say in substance that they are 
 ready to demonstrate all their good qualities and hide all their faults 
 for all '99-ers, connections and allies who will visit them here or in 
 New Hampshire. Wishing you all success in your "juvenile statistics," 
 I am, Cordially yours, Mrs. Earl Eastman. 
 
 Hanover, Conn., Nov., 1, 1915. .. . 
 
 Mark and 
 
 My dear Mr. Clark:— Marcia Fuller 
 
 Your letter came as quite a surprise. I did not Mrs. M. J. Fuller 
 think our children important enough to "write up," 
 but I see as descendants of that celebrated '99 class they may yet become 
 famous, and I certainly think you hit the nail on the head, if you want 
 a big book for a Report, when you asked the mothers to write on their 
 children. 
 
 All my life I've heard, the saying, that parents were blind to their 
 children's faults. Now I don't believe that is true ; they look pretty 
 big to me, I only hope their faults don't seem as large to others. 
 
 My children go to public school. Mark is four feet nine, Marcia 
 half a head shorter ; the four make a perfect pair of stairs, all strong, 
 healthy children. 
 
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Mark, age eleven and three-quarters, graduates in June if we stay 
 here, but if we move will probably be put back a year, which will be 
 the best thing for him, as he is too young to go to city High School. 
 He stands next to head of the class. He is very fond of running the 
 automobile (with his father) and knows our old car from beginning 
 to end, knows altogether too much about the Ford Parts catalogue. I 
 used to hear great things about his being President, Doctor, etc., etc., 
 but now his ambition is just to run a garage; he teases his father to 
 stop preaching and go in partnership with him. 
 
 One day his father was gone, and Mark was supposed to be pulling 
 beans in the garden, but instead of working, I'm sorry to say, he took 
 three discarded car batteries, and put them in the upstairs ventilator 
 just over my bed, found a bulb, wire and switch, and fixed me an elec- 
 tric light, which I really found useful when Miriam had whooping 
 cough this fall; but my youngest boy, Melville, age six and one-half, 
 got to experimenting with it, and then it wouldn't go. The next I saw 
 of it, the bulb went inside a box with a jack-o-lantern face put in the 
 window by his sister's bed, Mark and the fixings under the bed; he 
 wanted to surprise (no intentions of scaring, of course) Marcia after 
 she went to bed. 
 
 I have no help, and Mark and Marcia take turns doing the dishes, 
 and I assure you they are pretty particular who did them the last time. 
 1 do the tins, and to be sure they will get them done in time for the 
 next meal I put a time limit on them, if they run over half an hour 
 they have to do them the next meal. 
 
 Mark helped his father hoe the garden, but had none of his own ; 
 he feeds the hens, but I believe has to be told every single day; he 
 also makes his own bed, sweeps the sheds every week and mops every 
 other week. His games are baseball and football, the latter just now. 
 Last Christmas the children had a large game board, and the favorite 
 game on that is checkers, sometimes he beats his father. For spend- 
 ing money Mark sells the Saturday Evening Post. He has sold Curtis' 
 publications for last three years, and done very well at it. 
 
 Marcia, age ten, is a rather nervous, wide-awake, active child ; she 
 likes the out-door sports best; she can do anything the boys can, except 
 go to the top of the pine tree. Dishes are her bugbear; she makes a 
 bed and crib every day, and when I have a headache is quite a won- 
 derful nurse. Marcia was put back a grade when we came here, and 
 has had the same poor teacher, but is doing good work and think she 
 will get her grade back before the year is out. 
 
 Last week the Parson was in New Haven at the National Council, 
 and Marcia with the two younger children were playing church in the 
 next room. Marcia, of course, was the preacher, and in deep, thun- 
 derous tones she delivered her discourse on "Children Obey Your Par- 
 ents." She pounded the pulpit to emphasize, "we ought to obey our 
 
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parents, we must obey our parents, for it makes them feel good." In 
 a pause for breath, my baby Miriam, just turned four, piped in, "Obey 
 your parents in the Lord for that is right." When the meeting was over, 
 Mark whispered to me, "Marcia is a pretty good preacher, but not a 
 very good practice-er." 
 
 Marcia sometimes wants to be a teacher, sometimes a nurse. 
 
 The two other children will make a book some other time. I am 
 sure 1 should be very much pleased if you put about half of this in the 
 waste basket. 
 
 Greeting to all the First and Second Generations of '99-ers from 
 Martha Lyons Fuller. 
 
 Westford, Mass. Albert Galusha 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — Mrs. A. L. Galusha 
 
 Albert Ranney is about the average size and 
 weight for a boy of his age, eight years. He attends the Westford pub- 
 lic school (endowed). His first year in school he received double pro- 
 motion, but owing to an eight weeks' illness last winter is still in third 
 grade. This is the first year he has ever shown any interest in baseball 
 games ; always been happier "making things that really go." such as 
 miniature engines, cars, and autos. His inventive ability is very marked. 
 
 We give him a weekly allowance for keeping wood in box, ashes 
 from fireplaces; keeping his own room tidy; also care of his clothes. 
 A failure to willingly perform his daily tasks means just so much for 
 our "forfeit cup." He must also be able to show us half of the pre 
 vious week's payment. We hope in this way to teach him careful spend- 
 ing. 1 was amused one day to see how readily he had acquired this 
 habit. A little friend was playing with them, and they wanted to buy 
 some ice-cream. After being told he must "treat" his friend and sister, 
 "ice-cream" didn't seem so tempting. When they returned home with the 
 cream later, his sister informed me she had to pay for hers, herself. 
 Sincerely, Mrs. A. L. Galusha. 
 
 405 Park St., Upper Montclair, N. J., Dec. 15, 1915. Genevieve Gannon 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark :— Mrs. J. W. Gannon 
 
 To tell the truth I have been diffident to record 
 the virtues of my daughter, you know that the views of doting parents 
 regarding their offspring are not fully shared by others. 
 
 Although her name is Mary Genevieve, we call her Genevieve and 
 she goes by that name at school and generally. She is of average 
 height and weight for her age, has light brown hair and blue eyes. 
 She is in the Fourth Grade of the Public Schools and was advanced 
 after two months from the Third Grade because of rapid mental de- 
 velopment. She seems to have a quick mind and her teachers report 
 that she concentrates exceedingly well. She gets along well at school, 
 apparently without much effort. 
 
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She is a great reader and on that account exceptionally well 
 informed for a child of her age. She is apt with the needle and fond 
 of doing fancy work and also likes to draw and paint. She leads a very 
 active outdoor life and enjoys plays and sports. She makes friends 
 readily and likes to invite her friends to lunch almost daily. I cannot 
 say that her ambitions are definitely formed yet. She has expressed 
 a desire to be a school teacher. She plays the piano a little and 1 
 think has some taste for music. We have not sought to develop her 
 along any particular line believing it better at her age to allow her to 
 follow her natural bent. 
 
 I was sorry not to be at the meeting in Boston after the football 
 game, but it was not a favorable time to leave the children. Very 
 
 sincerely yours, Mary R. Gannon. 
 
 2 Oak Place, Akron, Ohio, Oct. 12, 1915 
 
 Harriet and 
 My dear Mr. Clark:— Jane Hardy 
 
 I am only too happy to help you and am very Mrs. Chas. M. Sears 
 happy to have you interested in the girls. I am treas- 
 uring everything to tell them when they are able to understand, so it 
 will be a beautiful loving memory and 1 want to keep in touch with all 
 of Horace's friends and associations. 
 
 Harriet was nine in September. Jane will be eight in November 
 They are big, very strong, very well. Some one said at home last week 
 they were as hard as nuts, the strongest girls he ever saw. Harriet is 
 larger every way, stocky and looks like me. Jane is tall, slight, and the 
 picture of Horace, his blue eyes and thin hands and both have a won- 
 derful color. Mr. Sears built them a swimming pool and they went in 
 twice a day. They have travelling rings upon which they are quite 
 expert. They are out all day. They are very independent and self- 
 reliant. They went to my father's in New Jersey and spent Septem- 
 bere there alone, where they learned to ride horseback and to steer an 
 automobile, also all of its parts. They have only been to school a week 
 this year. They go to a private school. Harriet is in the fourth grade, 
 Jane in the second. Harriet is the better student. Jane is inclined to be 
 dreamy. Harriet reads wonderfully well and is not good in math- 
 ematics. They were in the public schools before, but the associations 
 were bad and teaching, too, so I took them out. Horace believed in 
 public schools, but I am sure even he would object to these. Harriet 
 wants to go to college and she has the makings of suffragist, militant 
 at that. She reads up the war. She is very much interested in every- 
 thing. Jane is distinctly a girl. She loves her clothes and keeps her 
 bureau in fine order. Harriet is, too. She loves her dolls and plays 
 endlessly with them. Harriet is always the father. They both look 
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a baby like their little brother. They earn money by taking care of 
 their brother when nurse is busy, by doing errands, by washing dishes 
 when we have no cook. Each earned $17 last Christmas by not eating 
 candy for seven months, and I hope will do so again this year. Jane 
 is the one who loves dolls, etc., but it is to Harriet we turn when we 
 want anything done, for she is the most reliable person I ever saw, no 
 matter how she may hate to do a thing. Jane is apt to forget. Jane 
 is more affectionate and lovable, the prettier of the two. They had a 
 small garden of nasturtiums and mignonettes this summer of which 
 they took good care. Except to keep their room in order, they have no 
 regular household duties. However, when I am cookless they wash 
 dishes, set the table and sweep the kitchen. They love to look out for 
 the baby, who is two years' old and he adores them. They are just 
 overflowing with energy and spirits, so we keep moving here all the 
 time. They are unusually devoted to each other and dress and do 
 everything the same, and I suppose the great difference in them makes 
 them so congenial. Harriet would like to have been a boy. She is plain, 
 honest, full of jokes, without a frill of any kind. Jane is absolutely 
 feminine every inch of her. I have not said much about school, but 
 I have not laid any stress on it myself until this year and have cared 
 most about their health and they are naturally bright. But this year they 
 are going to work and I have great hopes for them. They are to study 
 French and possibly take piano lessons. I am inclined to be wordy 
 when I start on the girls. I am very proud of them, as you can see, 
 and I hope I have not tired you. Cordially, Harriet L. Sears. 
 
 Ballardvale, Mass., Oct. 5, 1915. 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark:— Barbara Hodgkins 
 
 Very gladly will I come to your assistance as to Mrs.W. B. Hodskins 
 the state of health and mind of our daughter Barbara. 
 She is ten years old, doing very well in her studies in the sixth grade of 
 the public schools of Andover. I think she has no one aim and ambition 
 in life just now, but her great delight is in "dressing up," and it might 
 be of interest to note that one of her choicest costumes consists of the 
 lining of her mother's Commencement Ball dress for the year of '99. 
 Barbara being deemed something of a "slim Jim", and the fact that the 
 waist just barely fits her, goes to prove that the increasing cares of family 
 life have prospered the mother, who fears it would take three of those 
 same waists to girdle her now. She is an omnivorous reader, (so like 
 her father!) but loves all the out-of-door sports. 
 
 Just now she is swelling her bank account with a small weekly 
 remuneration earned by keeping her own and two other rooms in order 
 with the duster and dry mop. 
 
 She is getting a very splendid education in the art of patience, for 
 she has a brother five years old, who is a born tease, and exceedingly 
 
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strong, so while there are often many tears, there are some very inter- 
 esting set-tos. Cordially, Helen R. Hodgkins. 
 
 Cecil, Penna., Dec. 17, 1915. 
 
 Sarah Hutchinson 
 
 My dear Mr. Clark: — .. 7~., r 
 
 You will understand by Will's letter that it has Hutchinson 
 
 been impossible for me to write you in regard to the 
 children. Sarah Ellen has been in school two years and William only 
 one. Sarah Ellen writes very well and neat and enjoys her mathematics, 
 while William, as his father says, "can read and spell like a whirlwind." 
 They both stand well in their grades and we hope will always be able to 
 make a good average. 
 
 While Sarah Ellen is only nine years old, she can use a needle very 
 intelligently and shows very good taste in arranging colors in her little 
 doll clothes. She is particularly interested in flowers and helped to plant 
 and care for a flower garden last summer. William spends most of his 
 time out on the farm watching the men at their work. 
 
 I am sorry we were not able to write you before this, and hope it 
 will not be too late. Sincerely, Mrs. L. W . Hutchinson. 
 
 St. Albans, Vt, Oct. 8, 1915. 
 
 Allen Hyatt 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — 
 
 . - ,. , T , , . Mrs. E. A. Hyatt 
 
 After reading your letter, 1 have taken an inven- 
 tory of Allen and decided that there isn't the least thing remarkable 
 about our boy. He's just a good, normal boy of eleven years, a little 
 above the average in size and weight. He is in the fifth grade in public 
 school and during summer vacation has studied from 9 to 11 A. M. with 
 the nuns of the French convent, and is giving "Daddy" some good prac- 
 tice in reading and speaking French with him. He has had two years' 
 study of the violin and plays well for a youngster and enjoys it. In 
 regard to his earnings, I regret to say that his only incentive for earn- 
 ing money is the fun he gets out of spending it, still he does errands 
 very cheerfully and has quite a delivery business all his own given him 
 by wholesale drug firms who ship goods for St. Albans M.D.'s directly 
 to Allen and he carries them to the various places. He has a bank 
 account which interests him to some extent, but it's a lot more fun to 
 spend the money than to put it in the bank. 
 
 Allen is generally interested in all athletics, but is not an enthusi- 
 ast over any in particular. He loves to read and to be read to, par- 
 ticularly stories of boys' school life and stories of adventure with now 
 and then an "Oz" book. But he recently informed me that I need not 
 read any girls' stories to him for he "just hated girls' stories." This 
 summer he has been especially interested in swimming and he thor- 
 
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oiighly loves our dear Lake Champlain and the mountains. Altogether 
 his greatest delight is to crank and drive the car for Daddy, and his 
 greatest ambition of the present is to be a machinist. How long this 
 will last it is difficult to say, perhaps no longer than the hatred for girls' 
 stories ! 
 
 When he could not visit the lake on hot days he donned his bathing 
 suit and with the hose and all its attachments and the water turned on 
 full head, he had a glorious time in the back yard. One of his cronies 
 brought along his bathing suit and joined him one afternoon, and could 
 you have heard the shouts of "Gee! Ain't this fun, Doc?" you would 
 have realized the success of the bathing system as well as learned our 
 son's nickname. The yard is always full of boys and from a comparative 
 standpoint I think I can report Allen just a good, fair sample of the 
 average American boy. However, I'm his mother and therefore not 
 qualified to render a perfectly impartial report. 
 
 I hope this "essay" together with Doctor's sample of Allen's type- 
 written letters will help you to get at something you are looking for, for 
 your record. With kindest wishes, Sincerely, 5. Eugenia Hyatt. 
 
 Vineyard Haven, Mass., Oct. 14, 1915. 
 
 Arnold and 
 
 My dear Mr. Clark: — Ruth Hyatt 
 
 In reply to your recent letter I am very glad to Mrg w j Hyatt 
 send you the information you desire in regard to my 
 "Dartmouth '99" children. It would please you, I am sure, to hear 
 Arnold say with all the loyal spirit of a son of Dartmouth "My father 
 was a Dartmouth '99 man." At present it is his ideal college because 
 "daddy" went there, but isn't that the spirit the '99 men want instilled 
 into their boys? 
 
 Arnold is nearly ten years old, in November, and is a very normal 
 boy intellectually, but for more than three years has been at a disadvan- 
 tage physically, under treatment for a tubercular hip joint. I am very 
 glad to be able to say now that he has been convalescent for some 
 months and is very nearly well. 
 
 It has been a long and hard three years, but through it all he has 
 been so patient and happy, never complaining. For eight months he was 
 confined to a bed, strapped to an iron frame, but since then has been 
 active, using his crutches almost as well as his own legs and his gen- 
 eral condition has been splendid, which has helped to improve and 
 overcome the local condition. He lives an out-of-door life entirely and, 
 by the advice of a specialist, at the seashore. 
 
 You can readily understand that this condition has been a handicap 
 to him as far as physical work or play is concerned, but other forces 
 have been the more largely developed and the result is an unusually 
 active mind and an ability to use his hands. He has attended public 
 
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school for only one year, but as he says he attends a "fresh air" school 
 at home and with this instruction has been able to keep up his school 
 work, and is now doing fifth grade work with the other boys of his 
 age. In general knowledge I think he is much farther advanced than 
 most boys of his age. What he may have lost in special instruction in 
 the school-room, I feel he has gained 'in acquiring a general knowledge 
 of things about him by observation and experience. 
 
 His greatest source of amusement and real enjoyment is reading. 
 He simply "devours" books and very fortunately it has been, for thus 
 has he spent many hours happily which otherwise would have dragged 
 slowly and miserably by with nothing to take his attention from himself 
 and his limited ability to do things. He has his father's love of history 
 and travel and has read many books on those subjects with a great deal 
 of pleasure and profit. For lighter reading he enjoys with boyish fervor 
 stories of Indians, of camp life, boating and adventure. Stories of 
 animal life also appeal strongly to him. 
 
 He is a devoted admirer of "Dan" Beard the National Scout Com- 
 missioner and is confident of being a Scout when of eligible age. For 
 his own pleasure he has read and re-read the "Boy Scout Hand-book" 
 and prepared himself for the first examination. 
 
 He is a great lover of animals, takes the magazine Our Dumb 
 Animals and is a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
 to Animals. He much prefers riding with a horse, even a poor one, 
 than in an automobile, which goes to show he is not at all mechanical. 
 He became very much interested in dogs and with his characteristic 
 persistence sought for information through study and inquiry until he 
 now knows of about one hundred and twenty different breeds of dogs, 
 has the names and many pictures in a book in classified form. He has 
 made it a study just by himself, and has determined by comparison of 
 traits, etc., which is the breed he wishes to own above all others. 
 Nothing can swerve him from his decision. 
 
 He has also made quite a study of birds and is now becoming inter- 
 ested in trees. These naturally follow from an out-of-door life and a 
 keen observation. Any subject which involves research work appeals 
 to him at once, and he will go to the very limit in seeking knowledge 
 about that certain thing, that is within his sphere of understanding and 
 resources. 
 
 He has used his hands in fashioning knots. In his acquaintance with 
 sea captains here at the seashore, he has learned to make or tie more than 
 thirty different kinds of knots, knowing each by name. The climax was 
 reached just recently in the accomplishment of a perfect "Turk's Head!" 
 In this way he has also become familiar with the different kinds of sail- 
 ing craft, learning the sails and different parts of all from an ordinary 
 "cat" to a six-masted schooner. 
 
 He surely has a student's mind, but with it all he is fond of 
 sports as the average boy, though at present he is prevented from join- 
 
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ing in them to any extent. He is content to watch others. He loves 
 a ball game with every fibre of his sporting nature, though he must be 
 a spectator or at best the referee. He is naturally of a very happy, 
 cheerful disposition, which is wonderful to him under present conditions, 
 but his greatest ambition now is to be well and physically strong. 
 
 1 have written much, too much, I fear, about our boy, but you asked 
 me to be "generous" and you may just pick out the bits of information 
 you desired for the report, keeping the rest of personal interest to your- 
 self. 
 
 Ruth is a perfectly normal girl of nearly nine years, rather tall and 
 well proportioned. She is in the fourth grade at public school and 
 ranks well in her studies. Her report last year showed a general 
 average of ninety-five per cent. She is specially strong in reading and 
 spelling and language. She has, like her brother, literary tastes and is 
 also very musical. Has been taking piano lessons for some months and 
 thoroughly enjoys it. She would rather practice than play at games. Her 
 ambition is to "play a big organ and teach." This latter accomplish- 
 ment has appeared very clearly in her nature. In all her play she shows 
 this propensity and among her playmates she is easily a leader. She 
 is at her best as the teacher when playing "school". 
 
 Ruth is already a real help at home. She can do many things well 
 and when shown to her in the light of a responsibility as her part of 
 the household duties, she is ready to do them. I find that this appeals 
 to her sense of duty and responsibility with better results than when 
 she is asked to "help mother." She takes the entire care of her own 
 room, washes dishes, does the dusting, and her favorite work is straight- 
 ening out a confused place, whether it be the play-room or a bureau 
 drawer. 
 
 Ruth is very happy with her books, reads quite as much as is good 
 for her and will read aloud so long as any one will listen. She is fond 
 of out-door plays and sports. Both Ruth and Arnold are true lovers 
 of "God's out-of-doors" and enjoys to the utmost life in the open, a 
 camping trip which they have been privileged to experience at various 
 times is a perfect joy. Ruth likes a good tramp, and for a small girl 
 can do very well. She can easily do four or five miles at a stretch 
 without being tired. She is passionately fond of flowers, but as yet her 
 efforts in gardening have not met with very great success. 
 
 Both children enjoy the water bathing and boating and in summer 
 spend much of their time on the beach. As you see, they are "out-of- 
 door children" and I think life in a city now would be unbearable for 
 them. 
 
 I trust from this rambling account of them you may be able to 
 glean something which may be of interest in the class report. 
 
 May I take this opportunity, late as it is, to thank you for sending 
 me the last report? I was very much pleased with the tribute to 
 
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Mr. Hyatt. I prize it greatly now, and it will be of great value to the 
 children, Arnold especially, when old enough to fully appreciate it. 
 Most sincerely yours, Jessica Crowell Hyatt. 
 
 Manchester, N. H., Oct. 6, 1915. 
 
 .~ ht /- JohnWalter Johntson 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — 
 
 The tasks of a secretary are sufficiently tiresome Mrs. R. P. Johntson 
 even when one receives prompt reports and replies to 
 inquiries, — I know this from personal experience, — so I hasten to give 
 you all the information you ask in full detail. 
 
 John Walter is a sophomore in the Manchester High School. Last 
 year he came rather near being on the honor roll, but his Latin held 
 him clown to an eighty-six average (ninety being required). This 
 year he is taking French, too, and is doing so well that I have hopes 
 of the honor roll although he says there is no chance on account of 
 Latin. Walter had heard of "French tables" at various schools and 
 thought it would be a fine plan to have only French at table here at 
 home. His father and I agreed, but after a very few meals Walter 
 begged for a change. You see his vocabulary was most limited and 
 while Rob and I talked all the time, Walter couldn't speak at all and 
 couldn't understand anything we said. He couldn't stand it to keep 
 quiet and was so afraid he was losing out on something that he squealed. 
 
 We are talking of sending him to St. Paul's at Concord next year. 
 Their new building for winter tennis is the great inducement to him. 
 He loves tennis and good judges say he gives great promise at that 
 game. He won the cup in the 25-yard dash for boys at the North Shore 
 swimming pool this summer and he really is a first class swimmer. He 
 is one of the fifteen best golfers in our Country Club at present. 
 
 Last winter Walter won the boys' championship for bowling and 
 got up to the finals in the pool tournament; also he held the chess 
 record at Y.M.C.A. He belongs to the Boy Scouts and last year was a 
 patrol leader. He is 5 ft. 7^4 inches tall and weighs 124 pounds and is 
 gaining in weight very rapidly now. He looks quite like a man. The 
 other day we were discussing business and I asked him if he still 
 thought he would go to Law School and practice law. He said no 
 indeed, he had changed his mind and had decided to be a bank president 
 \ asked (jokingly, of course) if he had decided to take up the duties of 
 bank president immediately on his graduation from Dartmouth, and he 
 replied in all seriousness, "Oh, no, I intend to go to Tuck School a year 
 first." T am sorry to say that he has absolutely no household duties to 
 perform and doesn't earn any money for anything, ever. 
 
 Now I think I have answered all your questions. I will add, how- 
 ever, that Walter is a member of the Forum at school and is quite a 
 debater. He took part in two public debates last winter and will no 
 doubt do as much this year. 
 
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Rob and Walter are both going to Hanover for Dartmouth night 
 and Walter wants to go again in December as a delegate to the Y.M.C. 
 A. boys' conference — maybe I'll allow it. 
 
 Of course you can't guess that I'm rather proud of my son ! With 
 best wishes, I am Sincerely yours, Edna L. Johnston. 
 
 New Hampton, N. H., Nov. 16, 1915, 
 
 Pauline Joy 
 
 My dear Mr. Clark : — Mrs. C. L. Joy 
 
 About the smaller Joys. There are two, Pauline 
 and Barbara, Pauline being eleven is the one about whom I am to tell 
 you. She is attending the "Preparatory department" of the school in 
 which Clarence teaches. She will study there for two years and then 
 enter the "Institution" for the regular four years' course. She was 
 eleven last month, is nearly as tall as her mother, is built exactly like 
 her father, weighing about one hundred and fifteen pounds and wearing 
 at present a number four shoe. She is studying music, but I'm sure 
 she will never arrive at fame. Her ranks are very good in general, 
 but nothing above the average perhaps. 
 
 I asked her this noon what she would like to be when grown up 
 and the answer was "a milliner." We have noticed an especial talent 
 for designing doll's apparel, also for cutting it out and basting the gar- 
 ments together. These I generally find in bureau drawers or in the 
 attic unfinished, so dressmaking may be added to her chosen vocation 
 aforementioned. 
 
 Her spending money is earned by helping her mother with the 
 housework, her regular tasks being to make beds and help with the 
 dishes. Very sincerely yours, Lena Chamberlain Joy. 
 
 Epping, N. H., Oct. 5, 1915, 
 
 Karl Ladd 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — ~ ~~ 
 
 First of all Karl spells his name with a "K." Ladd Robinson 
 
 His father named him and just because he liked the 
 German "Karl" so I have always insisted on having it spelt as he 
 wanted it. He was ten years old the 22nd of July. 
 
 He looks like Harry although his hair is straight and his features 
 are small. But the expression of his eyes reminds one that he is Harry 
 Ladd's boy. He is four feet and four inches and weighs about sixty 
 pounds. 
 
 I regret to say that the first eight years of his life were spent in 
 a hard fight for an existence. He was taken sick as soon as we came 
 here and has tried to have everything that he could get in those eight 
 years. Two years ago he had his throat operated on and was put out 
 doors to sleep. He has slept out doors summer and winter for two 
 years. He started school at six, but the first two years were time 
 
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wasted. He was out almost all the time with sickness and so at eight 
 he was still in the first grade. But he is doing very well now and he 
 is taking the third and fourth grade together this year in hopes to make 
 up what he has lost. He is very much interested in his school work 
 and anxious to catch up. He studied during the summer hoping to skip 
 a year. 
 
 The height of his ambition, at present, seems to be a musician. He 
 has never been strong enough to do what other boys of his age did 
 and is only just beginning to play baseball and throw rocks. He goes 
 to the Public School and of course mingles with all kinds of children. 
 He had his first fight a couple weeks ago and came home with a very 
 sore and black hand. But he said the boy was bigger than he was and 
 struck him first so I let it go. I think perhaps the contact with larger 
 and rougher boys may be what he needs now that he is getting more 
 strength. He has naturally been cared for a great deal and hasn't 
 had a chance to be much of a boy. He loves to run and can beat 
 any boy around here anywhere near his age. But that is one of the 
 things the doctor has forbidden. He went to a picnic last summer and 
 won a race (fifty yards I believe) and lost two pounds. He also won 
 the standing broad jump and running high jump. He is very quick 
 and wiry and would like to be an athlete if he had the strength to keep 
 up under it. 
 
 He had a small garden this summer and took an interest in it and 
 kept it in good condition. He doesn't do much around home while he 
 is in school. He seems to need the rest of his time to rest and get 
 ready for the next day. Still he chops my kindling and brings in wood 
 night and morning during the fall and winter. He is very strong in 
 his arms and can lift more than his heart will stand. 
 
 Last winter he started to skate, but fell on his nose and fainted so 
 he didn't succeed very well. Just now he has a new bicycle and is 
 riding it to school. He visited his aunt (Harry's sister) in Stockbridge, 
 Mass., during the summer and earned some money doing errands and 
 my husband and I pay him to do little things for us. The wheel is 
 the first thing he has bought with his own money. He is just beginning 
 to realize that he has got to earn his own money. 
 
 He is very fond of fishing and camping and would like to go gun- 
 ning. His step-father takes him fishing and we go to camp in summer. 
 He will walk all day to go trouting and be sick a week without a com- 
 plaint. He is very much interested in anything about his father. 
 Harry's things were all burned and so he has very little to keep that 
 belonged to him. T have his class photo book and his diploma and 
 baton and I think that is all. His baseball clothes and bat and golf 
 sticks and in fact everything that Karl would prize were packed away 
 and burned with the house. 
 
 Karl has one marked characteristic : he is absolutely not afraid of 
 anything. He goes out doors to bed alone every night with his dog 
 
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(and alone before he had the dog) and one night last winter he walked 
 a half mile alone in the dark on a country road to get some corn to 
 pop. I went to meet him and he asked me why I came. 
 
 He has a Scotch Collie dog that he is very fond of. He plays with 
 him hours throwing sticks and teaching him to do tricks. He has a 
 tool chest with some very good tools and he likes to use them. 
 
 Just at present he wants to take violin and piano lessons and I 
 hope later he can take enough to be able to entertain himself and 
 friends. He talks of going to Dartmouth and if his health holds good 
 and he can get the "necessary" I guess he will. He has a good many 
 years to look forward to it anyway. I hope Karl can go to the next 
 class reunion and if some one of you fellows will take him in charge, 
 1 will be glad to have him go. I should like nothing better than to 
 have him meet Harry's classmates and think it would be something he 
 would always remember. If any of you fellows ever come up this way, 
 I would like to have you come and see Karl and if I come down to 
 Boston I would like to bring him to see you and Mr. Drew and any 
 others that would care to see him. Yours very truly, Josephine 
 Ladd Robinson. 
 
 435 Ft. Washington Ave., 
 
 New York, N. Y, Oct. 7, 1915, 
 
 Ronald Leavitt 
 
 Mrs. A. B. Leavitt 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — 
 
 Yours of the fifth received and I will do the best I can in giving 
 you a sketch of the "Class Baby" at the present time. 
 
 1 may be a little prejudiced, but will try and be fair. First of all 
 will give him an excellent character with no bad habits. He has grown 
 very rapidly in the past two years and is a manly looking lad for his 
 years as you can see from the picture I will send you later. The picture 
 was taken when he was fourteen and a half. He is five feet eight and 
 a half inches tall and weighs one hundred and thirty-eight pounds and 
 as he has an excellent appetite am sure he still grows. 
 
 He has always attended public school and graduated from Gram- 
 mar last June. He got first mention for his work in the carpenter's 
 shop and we have a nice table which was the result of his work in the 
 trades last term. He is hoping to be a chemical engineer and is now 
 in Stuyvesant High School taking the scientific course. He is only 
 medium in his school work caused by the fact that he enjoys reading 
 so much more than study, but as his choice of reading is good, he gets 
 much knowledge in this way he would not get from text books. He 
 seems to have a great love for "Popular Mechanics" and anything con- 
 nected with machinery. He fixed a grandfather clock the other day 
 that a clock repairer had worked on for a year without much success 
 and the clock now goes and keeps good time. 
 
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Ronald's athletic pursuits are swimming, running, basketball and the 
 usual gym work. He belongs to the Y.M.C.A. and has joined the Boy 
 Scouts connected with the Presbyterian church of which he is a mem- 
 ber and is Senior Patrol Leader. We have discouraged ball playing 
 as he was growing so fast and had a weak heart after recovering from 
 pneumonia five years ago, but at present he seems physically perfect. 
 
 I just asked him about his household duties and he said "Yes, I 
 take care of father's auto," for which he seems to have a great liking, 
 as the dirtier he gets the better he likes it, and says when he gets his 
 allowance from father for spending money he has earned it as it is a 
 difficult task to collect. 
 
 During the summer vacation we sent him to New Hampshire on 
 a farm where he did all kinds of work from feeding chickens to cut- 
 ting underbrush, in this way earning part of his board and a good 
 coat of tan. While in New Hampshire he had a rifle and practiced 
 target shooting, also shot chipmunks and a crow so I fear he will fol- 
 low his father's footsteps and love shot and shell. 
 
 If you had asked me about the younger children, I could have 
 written a volume as we have a boy of six and a girl four who are the 
 liveliest pair existing and it takes the whole famliy to keep them in 
 order and I should say that Ronald's household duty is to make brother 
 and sister toe the mark. Very sincerely yours, Mrs. Laura U. Leavitt. 
 
 Wells River, Vt., Dec. 15, 1915, 
 
 Leland Lyster 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — Mrs. H. L. Lyster 
 
 Leland Conwell Lyster, generally known as "Pard" 
 was 15 years old Dec. 6. He is 5 ft. 9% inches in height and weighs 
 132 lbs. His build is straight and slender with a full chest. His com- 
 plexion is blonde with rosy cheeks. He is a regular boy of the hardy 
 kind, a boy's boy and has no use whatever for girls. He is in his 2nd 
 year at Wells River High School and is, I believe, an average student. 
 He joined the Eagle Patrol of Boy Scouts several years ago and was 
 second class scout when the last meetings were held. (There is no 
 Scout Master at present). He has always attended Sunday School and 
 belongs to the Christian Endeavor. He has always been a baseball en- 
 thusiast and is fond of all sports. He plays baseball and basketball, 
 swims some and is a very good skater. He is also fond of hunting and 
 fishing, but his use of a gun has not been sanctioned to any extent. He 
 had great endurance as a long distance walker and bicycle rider. He 
 learned telegraphy several years ago (the code) and puts in consider- 
 able time winters in practice under an operator. He is a great reader 
 of books, magazines and the newspapers. He doesn't care for house- 
 hold duties, but brings in the wood and kindling, runs on errands and 
 sometimes builds the kitchen fire in the morning. He earns a good 
 deal of money about town by doing errands and jobs of various kinds 
 
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too numerous to mention. He is very saving of his money and has a 
 good sized bank account of his own besides his pocket money. Though 
 he doesn't smoke or swear, he is not a "mama's" boy in the least, but 
 is uncommonly self-reliant. He doesn't say what his ambition is for 
 the future, but sometime ago spoke of being a veterinarian. (Our 
 next neighbor is a veterinarian and his son, Leland's chum, will prob- 
 ably fit for that work.) Respectfully, Mrs. H. L. Lyster. 
 
 San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 11, 1915, 
 
 Margaret and 
 
 Dear George: Russell Norton 
 
 Margaret will be ten on November 10th. Height a. H. W. Norton 
 4 ft. S]/ 2 inches. Weight 60 lbs., fair complexion, 
 gray eyes. Entered the Riverside Park School of the Independent School 
 District of San Antonio in the fall of 1912 and has worked up to the 
 low 4th grade, average to date about 82. Favorite study geography, 
 favorite cake fruit cake, favorite refreshment sherbet, favorite amuse- 
 ment cooking. Rather too quiet to make a basketball player though 
 likes to drop-kick and throw a football. Ambition is to be a school 
 teacher. Very fond of reading though won't admit it. Favorite story 
 "Little Women." Rather too quiet in disposition, but a fine little house- 
 keeper and always on the job. Very fond of caring for the chickens 
 and enjoys riding the pony whenever she has a chance. My Peggy is 
 one on whom I can absolutely depend. 
 
 Russell celebrated his eighth anniversary last April. Height 4 ft. 
 \ l / 2 inches, weight 59 lbs., fair complexion, sometimes called "Spec" or 
 "Turkey-egg" at school. Entered the Riverside Park Public grade 
 school of the Independent School District of San Antonio in February, 
 1914, and is now in the low second grade, average to date about 74, 
 but hopes to improve. Favorite study reading, favorite cake chocolare 
 layer, favorite refreshment ice cream, favorite amusement riding a 
 horse (4 footed) and teasing anyone he is able to. He is very fond of 
 baseball and football and any rough exercise. Can swing an axe 
 fairly well, chops a portion of the wood, can milk two cows without 
 tiring and rides his pony with the recklessness of ignorance. A sinewy 
 boy, high-tempered and very affectionate. Hopes to be a civil engineer 
 some day. Yours as ever, Arthur H. W. Norton. 
 
 35 Lansdale St., Rochester, N. Y., 
 
 Richard and 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark:— Edith Nye 
 
 I wish I might send you some real thrilling copy Mrs. E. L. Nye 
 
 for the report, but our children happen to be the 
 average kind. Richard is a book-worm. He will read any day rather 
 than play, though he is quite interested in his Boys' Club at school, and 
 in his Scout troop. Edith has a very vivid imagination and is always 
 
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ready for play, especially playing "mother" to her younger brother. She 
 says she wants to be a school teacher. There is no sign from Richard 
 as to what he wants to be, except that he seems quite sure he wants 
 to go to Dartmouth. 
 
 They both attend public school, Richard in seventh grade A, above 
 the average in scholarship ; Edith in fourth grade B, about average. 
 They are average height and weight. They both help me some about 
 the house, and Richard earned a little spending money this summer 
 caddying at the Country Club. He has had to put on glasses this last 
 summer, so we have to restrict his reading and encourage out-door 
 work. 
 
 I hope this may be of some help to you. We have always enjoyed 
 reading the report, and wish you all success with this one. Very truly 
 yours, May H. Nye. 
 
 Orono, Me., Oct. 23, 1915, 
 
 Ruth Pearl 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — Mrs. R. Pearl 
 
 The chief impression which your letter made when 
 I read it was, what a remarkable knowledge (for a bachelor) you had 
 concerning matters pertaining to childhood ! Did you compose your 
 queries entirely out of your own understanding or did you seek the as- 
 sistance of some '99 wife? 
 
 Ruth DeWitt Pearl was born April 21, 1907, in Philadelphia. Weight 
 at birth 9 l / 2 lbs., length 22 inches. Weight at present age of 8 years, 7 
 mo., 71 lbs. In appearance she strongly resembles her father. Her 
 health has been generally very good. Grip and whooping cough are the 
 only contagious diseases that she has ever had. She has never regularly 
 attended school until this year. She is now in the fourth reader. Her 
 chief aim at present is to have a good time. While she is doing very 
 well in her school work, yet she does not take her studies at all seri- 
 ously and her grading for conduct and effort are below the average. 
 She is very fond of reading, especially poetry and has even attempted 
 to compose verses. The result, I must confess, does not give the slight- 
 est encouragement for her parents to think that their offspring is a 
 budding poetess. 
 
 Ruth has taken piano lessons but so far shows no very great in- 
 terest in music. I may say, however, that so far as songs go, the can- 
 ticle, "Oh, there's 1913 and there's 1914, etc.," has a deep and abiding 
 place in her heart and that she and her father very frequently let the 
 neighbors know that "the best damn class ... is the class of '99." 
 Aside from reading, one of Ruth's chief indoor amusements is to play 
 with her dolls. She is very fond of all outdoor sports that it is within 
 her power to participate in, except walking. In the winter she spends 
 much time coasting and skiing. Very sincerely yours, Maud De- 
 Witt Pearl. 
 
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Pleasantville, N. J., Oct. 6, 1915, 
 
 Lillian and 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark:— Charles Risley 
 
 Lillian is ten years old, her height is 4 ft. 6 inches, Mrs. C. I. Risley 
 weight 66 pounds, and she is in the fifth grade of 
 Pleasantville school and has always been one of the brightest of the 
 class. She is also taking up the study of music. She is very fond of 
 all games. She spends her spare moments sewing and helping with the 
 housework, such as dusting and keeping her room in order and she 
 seems to be fond of doing it. 
 
 Charles Russell Risley who is in his eighth year, I am afraid is not 
 as bright as his sister. He is in the second grade. He is very fond 
 of gardening and is always making little wagons to run on the sidewalk. 
 He is also interested in batteries, in fact all kinds of electrical appli- 
 ances. Russell's weight is fifty-five pounds and his height is 4 ft. 2 
 inches. Yours sincerely, Mrs. Charles Risley. 
 
 Portsmouth, N. H., Oct. 22, 1915. 
 
 Francis Rowe 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — Mrs. R. G. Rowe 
 
 Francis, in the second year of High School, finds 
 little difficulty with his studies, if one can judge by his marks. Like 
 his father, though, he had much rather indulge in athletic sports than 
 attend classes. He plays baseball every spare minute in the summer 
 and football in the fall. He plays some tennis and golf, but is not 
 proficient at either game as yet. He prefers baseball to all other 
 games. He is a member of the Boy Scouts of this city, taking much in- 
 terest in learning the many things required, such as the international 
 code, semaphore system of signalling, woodcraft, etc. One of the re- 
 quirements of this organization is that each member must earn the 
 money with which to procure his outfit. This was accomplished prin- 
 cipally by digging dandelion greens last Spring. He finds, too, that 
 hunting golf balls (which, by the way, he sells to his father) is a rather 
 remunerative pastime. 
 
 He has never indicated any particular leaning towards what will 
 be his life work. He is taking the college preparatory course, but his 
 future in this line is rather indefinite still. His college, if he attends 
 one, will depend much on his own choice and also on what training 
 will be required for the branch of work which he selects. Sincerely, 
 
 Mrs. Robert G. Rowe. 
 
 Bridgeton, N. J. 
 
 Helen Sewall 
 
 My dear Mr. Clark : — Mrs. M. F. Sewall 
 
 It is so nice just once to be asked to talk about 
 my children instead of being asked to stop talking about them. Helen 
 
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should interest the '99-ers most, as she is eldest and as like her father 
 as a little girl can be. Her eighth birthday comes this week and as a 
 gift she demands an Indian suit to join her brother in his Wild West 
 plays and to be the "Squab". To simplify my arrangements for the 
 inevitable birthday party she also suggests my omitting all the girls 
 and having only the boys. 
 
 On the other hand, the little daughter is truly feminine when it 
 comes to clothes. She is a good student and faithful at the only imposed 
 task, piano practice. Her school is a very nice private institution, a 
 corrective for the somewhat rowdy tendencies. 
 
 There is always a lively argument when her Bryn Mawr mother 
 tries to overcome her father's loyalty to New England colleges in gen- 
 eral, and Smith in particular. Let us hope another reunion will permit 
 of some of these '99 youngsters getting together. With best wishes 
 to all our Hanover friends, I am, Very sincerely yours, Helen S. 
 
 Sewall. 
 
 Fairview, Okla., Dec. 14, 1915. 
 
 Roger, Walter and 
 
 Dear George:— JeromeStaley 
 
 Now about the boys : — they have all three been F. c. Staley 
 
 making good progress in school. Roger and Walter 
 are now in fifth grade, and Jerome is in the third. Roger is of a 
 mechanical turn of mind, always wanting to build something. If he 
 isn't building a new chicken house, or a pigeon roost, it is an automo- 
 bile or a coaster. For an eleven-year-old boy he is very handy about 
 such things. Fond of pets, he has both chickens and pigeons. Would 
 have rabbits, too, if we would allow it. But as I keep a very good 
 hunting dog, and my wife has a canary, and a few cats, we had to draw 
 the line somewhere. So we decided to stop before we came to rabbits. 
 Walter, on the other hand, is a book-worm. Is a good student in 
 school, likes to read, and is quiet and reposeful in disposition. On 
 account of his easy-going disposition he comes in for a good many 
 household duties, all of which he takes as a matter of course. At times 
 he is certainly imposed upon, but he is too good-natured to make a 
 kick. That is, as long as it is his mother who is asking his services, 
 but he is as balky as a mule with anyone else who tries to run it over 
 him. 
 
 Both the older boys play hard at baseball, tennis, and usual boy 
 sports. And Jerome, the youngest, tries his best to keep pace with 
 them. But his legs are a little too short, and he is at times a sore trial 
 to the older pair, for as they say, he generally gets only far enough to 
 "bust up the game." But they are all three healthy, wide-awake, live 
 boys. Not models by any means, but we feel that they are headed in 
 the right direction, and that eventually they will grow up to be the 
 sort of boys who will want to go to the good old College on the Hill, 
 
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and the kind that Dartmouth will be glad to have enrolled as students. 
 
 Trusting that the information given will be of some slight service, 
 and with kindest regards, I remain, Yours very truly, F. C. 
 
 Staley. 
 
 P. S.— "Walt" calls Jerome a "disturbing elephant." 
 
 Cascade, Montana, December 26, 1915. 
 
 Dorothy, Robert and 
 Dear Mr. Clark:— Thomas Elbert 
 
 When you asked me for some details of the chil- TooteU 
 
 dren's life on our Montana ranch, it seemed quite Mrs. A. B. Tootell 
 impossible to contribute anything of interest. We 
 are about thirty miles from Great Falls, and most of the ranches in 
 the neighborhood being very large, we have not even very near neigh- 
 bors. The ranch is our life, furnishing plenty of work for all, and our 
 recreation, for the most part, grows out of our home and farm interests. 
 That our children's life is quite different from that of the other class 
 children I readily grant, and gladly attempt to give you some idea 
 of the way they spend their days. 
 
 Dorothy, a rather quiet girl of twelve, is this year finishing her 
 eighth grade school work. Inasmuch as our school district was organ- 
 ized only four years ago, it will be seen that she has done quite a part 
 of the work at home. We have a theory that the child who can read 
 intelligently, has a good working vocabulary and cultivated powers of 
 observation, can afford to be a little late in taking up formal school 
 work, and in Dorothy's case it seems to have proved practical. She is 
 a fine little worker, if, a la Samantha, "I do say it as shouldn't." The 
 past two summer she has practically saved the hiring of help in the 
 house, most of the time washing the cream separator, milk pails, cans, 
 etc. Last summer, in addition to her housework, she raised chickens 
 and ducks and did quite a little gardening, from all of which she had 
 money enough of her own this fall to send away an order for some 
 things for herself, and for some Christmas gifts. She rides horse- 
 back, though not quite so recklessly as her brothers, is much interested 
 in her Sunday School, is quite a reader, and is looking forward with 
 much pleasure to her high school work next year. She is also quite 
 domestic in her tastes, much interested in learning to cook and in study- 
 ing food values, balanced menus, etc. Drop in some day and give her 
 the pleasure of preparing you one of her little dinners ! 
 
 Robert, eleven, not quite so studious as his sister, is doing fairly 
 good work in the sixth grade. He is our all round farmer; has milked 
 since he was seven, driven a team on a harrow, hay fork, rake, etc. He 
 earned several dollars this summer driving a "snatch team" for one of 
 our neighbors during haying. This winter he joined the "Hoard's 
 Dairyman Juniors," and is quite proud of his watch fob, button and 
 "Farm Boys' Creed" which he plans to frame and hang in his room. 
 
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He called me one evening recently and asked me which I thought con- 
 tained the greater amount of digestible protein per hundred pounds, 
 corn or alfalfa ! He, too, is interested in poultry and gardening. Last 
 summer he had a garden patch of his own, which he plowed, disked and 
 harrowed himself, and planted to potatoes, corn, and some small stuff. 
 We had potatoes from his garden some time before our own were 
 ready. He sold quite a few dollars' worth besides. On the whole he 
 felt that his first garden was quite a success, even though he did forget 
 and plant potatoes and pumpkins on the same space ! He is much 
 interested in becoming a Boy Scout some day, and is learning to cook 
 a little, and do many little things about the house. In proof of the 
 statement that he is quite a help to me, I have only to say that in over 
 two years I have not cleaned and dressed a fowl for home use. He has 
 a "22" and some traps, and this winter sent away his first little con- 
 signment of furs, muskrat and weasel, receiving his check, therefor, just 
 in time to make himself a Christmas present of a flexible flyer. He is 
 just a little worse tease than even a boy is expected to be, but his sis- 
 ter is learning to ignore him, and his little brother, who is gaining on 
 him in size and strength very rapidly, is helping to break him of this 
 habit. 
 
 Thomas Elbert, named for his two grandfathers, but who should 
 have been christened "A. B." Jr., is seven, and perhaps the liveliest 
 member of the trio. As a tiny tot he upset all my theories about keep- 
 ing things in their usual places, and teaching children to leave them 
 alone ! When I complained of his various depredations, "A. B." would 
 ask me why I didn't "put things up out of his reach." Since the young- 
 ster has transferred the base of his operations to out-of-doors, I have 
 taken great satisfaction in asking his father the same question. The 
 summer after he was two in February he possessed himself of a wrench, 
 a pail of axle grease and a stick, removed the burrs from the heavy 
 wagon wheels, and proceeded to apply enough axle grease to run the 
 wagon six months if properly used, according to his father's somewhat 
 disgusted report of the operation ! Since that time he has "greased" 
 and otherwise "fixed" every available piece of machinery on the place. 
 He is the family mechanic. This summer he fitted up a repair shop in 
 one corner of the well-house, which he announced would be open for 
 business from 5 A. M. to 7 P. M. This fall his father decided it was 
 time the young man learned to milk, but he made himself so hard to 
 find at milking time that the plan was abandoned. He is attending 
 school this year with some pretense at regularity, but considers it a 
 dreadful bore. It takes him away from his beloved machinery too 
 much of the time, and also necessitates his being kept somewhat 
 (leaner than he really enjoys, his favorite garb being an old shirt and 
 a good greasy pair of overalls I I cannot report that he has raised 
 any chickens or made any garden, but he is authority for the where- 
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to do whatever is asked of him which he considers in his line ! For 
 two years he has been able to run the gasoline engine with which we 
 pump water for the stock. One morning when he was a little past five 
 years old, I discovered him dressing himself with rather more than his 
 usual haste, and upon inquiring the reason, he replied : "I've got to 
 hurry out to the well-house. I can tell from the sound of it that 
 Frank (the hired man) is giving that engine too blamed much gaso- 
 line!" 
 
 Thus you have them, three healthy, active children, which we are 
 sure are no better than the average, and which we fondly hope are no 
 worse ! Sincerely, Mrs. A. B. TootelL 
 
 Lee, N. H., Oct. 17, 1915. 
 
 Marion Walker 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — 
 
 Concerning Marion or "Bunny" as she is most Mrs ' J B - C ' Wa,ker 
 
 always called. She was born in July 4, 1907, and as 
 the date might suggest has always been quite independent. She is quite 
 tall for eight years old, being four feet two inches and weighs fifty-nine 
 pounds. She attends the public school and is in the fourth grade. She 
 likes games of any kind, but is more inclined to favor the more active 
 out-of-door games. She can skate both on ice and on roller skates. She 
 has begun a little on music and practices about forty or forty-five min- 
 utes each day. When school is keeping she has no regular household 
 duties to perform. She simply has to practice her music after school. 
 But when school is not keeping, she has some regular duties, usually 
 to wipe the dishes in the morning. 
 
 She is much interested in flowers and in gardening. She has a 
 flower guide and takes great pleasure in hunting for wild flowers and 
 then finding the names from the flower guide. She is very fond of 
 books and such stories as the "Bedtime Stories" and the "Little Prudy 
 Books" she reads herself quite understandingly. She likes to have 
 animal stories by Long read to her. 
 
 I really couldn't say what her ambition to be is, so I just asked her 
 and she says an actor in a circus. I think, however, that her ideas may 
 change as she grows older. Very cordially, Mrs. James B. Walker. 
 
 Grand Mere, P. Q., Canada. 
 
 Gratia Wardle 
 
 Dear Mr. Clark : — Mrs. E. B. Wardle 
 
 Gratia Beaument Wardle is eleven years old, four 
 feet four and one-half inches in height, weighs fifty-seven and one- 
 half pounds. This is ten pounds underweight and coupled with her fair 
 
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skin and light hair gives her an appearance of fragility which is mis- 
 leading, as with the exception of malaria she has had no illness of any 
 importance since she was two years old. Eyes, ears, throat, nose, 
 lungs, heart, digestive apparatus normal, temperament nervous ; manner 
 neither shy nor assertive ; rather curiously independent of the thought 
 or action of others. Of tastes, fondness for books and music are most 
 marked. She has a strong sense of dramatic values, reciting and acting 
 without self-consciousness. 
 
 She entered public schools at five, spent two years in kindergarten, 
 as the first grade had two sessions a day, and we preferred to keep her 
 out of doors in the afternoon. Has made the usual grade a year so that 
 she is now in the fifth. Reading and spelling about three years ahead 
 of her grade, writing and drawing poor, arithmetic just passing marks, 
 grammar, history, etc., very good. Outside of school, she has had 
 piano lessons for the last six months and has recently begun French, 
 progressing well with both. 
 
 Games which give her a chance to use her imagination are pre- 
 ferred to merely physical ones. She is just beginning to take an inter- 
 est in tennis. She is enthusiastic over snowshoeing and will learn to 
 skate this winter. She doesn't care for the work of gardening, few 
 children do, I find, though she is interested in the results. One of her 
 favorite amusements is to plan what fairies do with the different flow- 
 ers. She is an ardent hunter after wild flowers and likes climbing 
 around through the woods. She has no stated domestic duties as I like 
 her to be out of doors as much as possible and school begins at 8.30. 
 When the need arises, she can do dishes, iron plain clothes, wash win- 
 dows, make beds and take care of the baby. She has a small allowance 
 of which she keeps an account and earns any extra she may need by 
 some form of housework. This doesn't happen very often as her wants 
 are few and simple. She has a good voice, which is the reason for 
 her choice of future occupation, a professional singer. 
 
 The one thing over which I mourn is that she is an ardent anti- 
 suffragist ! Her reading for the summer included "Ivanhoe", "Quen- 
 tin Durward", "Huckleberry Finn", "The Siege of Phalsbourg", "The 
 Princess Aline", and "Heart of the West". I am glad to say that 
 she speaks contemptuously of "Pollyanna" and "Jewel", among contem- 
 porary girl heroines, so that I am beginning to feel that I can trust her 
 taste in literature. 
 
 Her attitude toward religion is inquiring rather than accepting. She 
 can be trusted in a room alone with a box of candy, and as far as T 
 can ascertain, she always speaks the truth. 
 
 I could, of course, write volumes on this interesting subject, but 
 think you have the chief mental, moral, and physical points in the 
 above. Respectfully submitted, Maud W. Wardle. 
 
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Simms, Montana, Dec. 13, 1915. _ , 
 
 Ruth and 
 
 My dear Mr. Clark :— Harold Wiggin 
 
 Ruth the eldest is now in High School, attending Mrs A D- wiggin 
 her father's own classes in Latin, Algebra, History 
 and English. Last June Ruth passed a creditable examination in all 
 common school branches according to the requirements of the State 
 Board of Education, which is quite a severe test. Ruth is also doing 
 very well in music. Let me say here that Ruth and all the rest are real 
 Westerners in one thing, and that is horseback riding. The three are 
 all fine riders and have a fine pony to ride. Dorothy is rather the best 
 rider of them all, as she learned to ride when she was about five years 
 old. 
 
 Harold is in the seventh grade and does well in his work and is 
 quite a hunter. On one of his trips this summer, he had the experi- 
 ence of having a rattler jump for him, but he was quick enough to 
 shoot and kill the rattler himself. The snake had nine rattles, was a 
 big fellow. He certainly was very proud of that. They are quite com- 
 mon here at certain times of the year. 
 
 They all attend Sunday School regularly and are quite easy to 
 manage. Very cordially yours, Mrs. Edyth M. Wiggin. 
 
 303 Ten Eyck St., Watertown, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1915. 
 
 Robert Winchester 
 
 Dear Mr. CLARK : — Mrs. P. Winchester 
 
 Robert is in the A — fifth grade of the public 
 school and stands well in his studies. He is rather mechanically inclined 
 and takes his greatest pleasure in playing with mechanical toys, such 
 as steam engines, motor, electric and mechanically operated engines and 
 trains of cars and with a set of the American Model Builder. Stone 
 building blocks also come in for their share of his time, periodically. 
 He has a wheel which calls for races with the other boys at times, 
 but on the whole athletics do not claim much of his attention. He is 
 yet too young for the Boy Scouts, but he has been much interested in 
 them and has read their manual from cover to cover. He is of a little 
 slighter build than the average boy of his age, is four feet two and one- 
 half inches in height, and weighs about fifty-eight pounds. He does 
 not know yet as to what he wants to be when he grows up and this 
 is what he says in response to the question, as I just put it to him. He 
 has no regularly prescribed household duties to perform, but willingly 
 lends a hand whenever needed. We succeed once in a while in getting 
 him to pull a few weeds from the garden, but this part of the game 
 does not seem to appeal to him very strongly. His spending money 
 comes mostly from errands and special things on which he works and 
 at times he is quite energetic, though like most boys at his age he likes 
 to play best. 
 
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He is taking lessons on the piano, this being the second winter at 
 it and does very well. Practicing comes a little burdensome at times, 
 but he is much interested and sticks to it pretty well. 
 
 On the whole Robert is just about the average boy of his age, 
 though athletically he is not up to the average. However, other things 
 make up for this to just about even the boy up with the rest of them. 
 Yours very truly, Anna H. Winchester. 
 
 H. W. Rice Herbert is now farming. He writes, Henniker, 
 
 N. H, Dec. 27, 1915: 
 
 Dear Clark : — There is not very much to say about myself. I came 
 home late in the spring on account of the poor health of my parents, 
 and in spite of an unusually poor season have managed to keep "square 
 with the board." 
 
 I have met very few Dartmouth men lately, but I try to keep 
 posted on all college news. I have not heard of a '99 man being men- 
 tioned for President Nichols' successor. Isn't it about time? 
 
 With best wishes to you for a happy and prosperous New Year, 1 
 remain, Yours in '99, Herbert W. Rice. 
 
 J.P.Richardson Just read this dated December 8 from "Long 
 
 Jim." 
 
 My dear George: — As a class secretary, you are certainly the most 
 unmitigated nuisance yet unearthed. Barstow was bad, Donahue was 
 devilish, but Clark is the climax. If I ever have a case where I wish 
 to interrogate my opponent limb from limb ; when I desire to apply the 
 equivalent of a stomach-pump to his gray-matter and turn it inside out 
 for the gleeful inspection of a court and jury, I shall resign, and call 
 you in as Sole and Senior Counsel ; for you are a Human Question- 
 Mark, and that goes double, as the boys say. 
 
 I will answer your diabolical catechism out of loyalty to the class 
 and nothing else; I will not dictate the stuff to a stenographer, for the 
 Lord and the devil only knows what secrets I shall have to divulge 
 before I finish; and I will not write it on my best paper, for the firm 
 would not stand for the heavy drain. So you make this out if you can, 
 and I advise you to keep out of my way for the next few weeks, or I 
 shall be likely to trample you into a custard. Just think how much 
 more willing the fellows ought to be to answer my appeals for the 
 Fund, than yours of this character. All I ask for is a modest check that 
 ran be struck off in a moment — I even send a stamped envelope — 
 whereas you — but, Lord, this isn't getting me even to Query No. 1. 
 
 Here goes on the Westminster: (we condense.) Have moved office 
 from 18 Tremont St., to 40 Court St., some job, but v/orth while; and 
 
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plugged along in a very unspectacular way, with only one case of "news- 
 paper" interest, that of Emery vs. Emery, a contested will of a well- 
 known New Hampshire lawyer, which is now (December 8, 1915) on the 
 knees of the gods, i. e., the S. J. C. of Massachusetts for final decision. 
 
 My only travel this year, off our local beats, was a trip to Chicago, 
 Minneapolis, Duluth, the Great Lakes to Buffalo, Niagara, Toronto, the 
 St. Lawrence, Quebec and the Saguenay, which Mrs. Richardson and I 
 reveled in during the month of July, incidentally giving me the longest 
 summer vacation I have had since I was fourteen, and worked in the 
 Passumpsic Savings Bank for $1 per week. The first four days I spent in 
 Chicago, playing duplicate whist in the Congress of the American Whist 
 League ; and this is worthy of note only because I suppose I am almost 
 the only Dartmouth alumnus, and certainly the only '99-er, who keeps 
 up any interest in this king of games, at least as played in tournament 
 form. I had a regular orgy of whist for that period, having played 
 three hundred hands, with nine different partners, and was moderately 
 well satisfied with the returns. As for the rest of the trip it would 
 take too much space to tell of all its delights ; I can only say that I rec- 
 ommend it to you all, as a perfect program for a vacation. 
 
 Was at Hanover for Secretaries' Meeting ; Commencement ; and 
 once in the summer. (The latter trip was made with eight ladies.) 
 
 You struck it, George; the Church reference did it; I blush (really) 
 to say that I am now clerk and vestryman of St. John's Church, New- 
 tonville. For other honors, I held ten honors in spades at the Hunne- 
 well Club last Saturday night, by heck. (It slipped him, that mem- 
 bership on the Executive Committee of the Association of Dartmouth 
 Alumni, called upon three times to select a list of candidates for trus- 
 tee, and membership on the committee appointed by the trustees to 
 prepare for 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the College, might be 
 properly called honors.) 
 
 The '99-ers and non '99-ers Jim has seen are so numerous, 
 lucky chap, that he says, "I refuse to answer, under advice of 
 counsel, unless expenses of preparing, printing and publishing 
 are to be paid out of the corpus of the estate." The Executive 
 Committee would not consent and were glad to have Jim's 
 stipulation as an excuse for keeping expenses down. 
 
 C. I. Risley Charles says "same old story, keep plugging, 
 
 trying to make more money, but not as yet. 
 Same old business trips touring Winchester, Putnam, Columbia, 
 Duchess and Rennselaer Counties. No vacation ; corporation 
 too poor to give us any." Still Charles owned up to a summer 
 
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home at Pleasantville. (name sounds inviting.) He had been 
 decorating it and it had been making him poor. But as he 
 doesn't say he had to mortgage one or both of his autos, and 
 is one of the few of the class so riotous as to possess two, the 
 class should not feel worried. 
 
 Road Song In a time long past, to the North and away, 
 
 of the A rugged Mother reared her brood, — 
 Dartmouth Reared them to work, and taught them to play, 
 Men Then sent them forth from the green home-wood. 
 
 K. Beal. Forth they fared — grown cubs from the den — 
 
 Nov. 6, 1915 Forth to the life of Dartmouth men. 
 
 A hundred years, and fifty more; 
 
 Still from the North the long line came 
 
 Hard on the trail of the host before, 
 
 Surging down to play life's game, — 
 
 And winning or losing, and now or then, 
 Keeping the spirit of Dartmouth men. 
 
 "On ! Straight on !" is their marching cry, 
 While the friendly wilderness gives them "Hail !" 
 With a confident heart and a fearless eye 
 Their column unbroken keeps the trail. 
 
 If baffled ever, they rush again, — 
 
 Stand back from the charge of the Dartmouth men. 
 
 We christened the Stadium, records show, 
 With a tidy score and a "Wah-hoo-wah !" 
 And we saw the tiger's broad stripes glow 
 With shame at the kick that hopped the bar. 
 
 And today were you beaten, Friend William Penn? 
 
 'Tis proud you should be 'twas by Dartmouth men. 
 
 "Pigs is pigs !" — we have it from Butler ; 
 And how clear it is that nothing subtler 
 
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Will ever lodge in a railroad man's brain ; 
 
 For it's our own argument they maintain : 
 
 "A students' no pig, a Pullman's no pen, — 
 Dartmouth students are Dartmouth men !"* 
 
 Last Tuesday we heard the hoarse tumult of flight, 
 When womankind struggled in vain for her right. 
 But we know that suffrage was settled with us 
 Long before Antis and Pros raised this fuss ; 
 
 For who in our lives play the part of the sovereign 
 Save the fair, well-loved women of Dartmouth men? 
 
 We have no use for club or clique, 
 
 For social games of hide-and-seek. 
 
 So may our children heed the call 
 
 Of all for each and each for all, — 
 
 Till each one feels the strength of ten 
 Because he is one among Dartmouth men. 
 
 Time's wind has blown our froth of youth, 
 
 We stand in the sun and cry the truth : 
 
 To the youngest son of the latest wed 
 
 Of the newest class in Dartmouth bred, 
 
 We pledge our faith as the one that's been 
 The faith for ages of Dartmouth men. 
 
 There are some of us here, — and some have gone — 
 There are some few thousands yet unborn : 
 But our common goal is that emerald gate 
 Which Peter will open with key of state, — 
 I don't know where. I can't say when, 
 But he'll seat us together like Dartmouth men. 
 
 * Apropos of rumor that R. R. men had refused to allow Dartmouth 
 students to travel to Amherst game en masse in hog cars. 
 
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H. S. Rogers "Herb" is on the go all the time. He spreads 
 
 himself all over Waltham, Wellesley and south 
 side of Newton, day and night, Sundays and Holidays, and 
 moving gets to be a habit. He has even moved his residence 
 back to his Newton Upper Falls house on Thurston Road. 
 "Herb" gave a smoke talk in Wellesley, March 23, 1915, on 
 'The Telephone and Its Operation," fully illustrated, a very 
 instructive forty-five minute talk, and if anyone is looking for 
 entertainments for his men's, women's or boys' club, "Herb" 
 would be glad to help them out. "Herb" attended Frisco Fair 
 in a way probably no other member of the class did. On the 
 night of September 26 about 5000 Telephone Employees "lis- 
 tened in", on a line from Mechanics Hall, Boston, to the Tele- 
 phone Building at the Fair, "hearing every word distinctly." 
 That's vacationing by proxy. "Herb" had a real vacation, eight 
 days' rest with the family at his old home in Tilton, N. H. 
 "Herb" was Chairman Entertainment Committee, Nehoiden 
 Club, Wellesley, but had to give it up on account of poor health. 
 
 G. M. Rounds Here are some mighty interesting things upon 
 
 Canada and the war and what is better about 
 himself, by George: 
 
 479 2nd Ave., Detroit, Jan. 10 
 
 Dear George: — You win. Here is some kind of a communication. 
 Your list of questions scare some, yet I will keep it in mind. I am 
 not married and have none of the things you ask about in your list, so 
 won't take up undue space that way. Spent all of last winter on my 
 hack in Calgary, Alberta, with rheumatic fever. First time since child- 
 hood that I have been ill in bed. Got away from hospital on May 4th 
 and went to California to recuperate. Visited both fairs and regained 
 my health. Spent the summer there. Business is very dead in Canada 
 despite reports to the contrary. The longer I stayed in that country the 
 more I loved the U. S. A. For a long time I have wanted to get back 
 to my own people and now I have made the move although it means 
 an entirely new start. 
 
 Had a fine call on Dr. Neal Hoskins the other day. He is the first 
 '99 man I have seen in fourteen years. He is some citizen in De- 
 troit, just as he was in Hanover. 
 
 You ask about war feeling in Canada. The Canadians are full of it 
 and in deadly earnest, that is, barring Province of Quebec. They are 
 more British than England's English. Canada had no say in starting or 
 
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stopping this war, yet without question she pays the toll. That, of 
 course, seems strange to a race that fought against "taxation without 
 representation" yet if you recall that has been Canada's way even from 
 the beginning of her history. 
 
 Individually a Canadian establishes a friendship with a Yankee far 
 easier than he does with an Englishman, but when it comes to govern- 
 ment he has absolutely no use for ours. One of the striking things to 
 a newcomer in Canada is how absolutely the whole country is in the 
 hands of the banks and railroads. It is the natural resource alone of 
 the country that draws Americans across the northern border. I can't 
 see the Teutons beating England, yet, in spite of this, Canada's imme- 
 diate future does not look good to me. All for now. Very best wishes 
 to Dartmouth '99-ers, George M. Rounds. 
 
 Round-Up Long Jim's announcement postcard is again 
 
 Boston, Mass. worthy of preservation, therefore we reprint 
 March 6, 1915 it: 
 
 A Few Definitions 
 
 Round-up — An enthusiastic gathering of persons united to a com- 
 mon faith : term brought into common use by the Class of '99 of Dart- 
 mouth College. 
 
 Copley Square Hotel — A luxurious hole in the ground, surmounted 
 by large quantities of brick and mortar, and completely surrounded by 
 booze and boilers : on the map only first Saturday of each March. 
 
 Hard Times — Something to be entirely forgotten from 6.30 P. M., 
 Saturday, March 6, 1915, until 1 A. M., Sunday, March 7, at said Cop- 
 ley Square Hotel, Boston, by the members of said Class of '99 of Dart- 
 mouth College. 
 
 Price $1.50. 
 
 So too is this reply: — 
 
 Definitions 
 Snow Drift — A pile of starched water, very high and very long. 
 The prevention of attendance at Copley Square Hotel. John H. Dubois. 
 
 Such worthy definers ought to be the ones to chronicle the 
 Round-up itself. It was the "best yet" in a long line of "bests" 
 growing better each year. Sleeper presided this time. Bob 
 Johnston had some new "drip", Watson told us something about 
 the duties of a signal corps sergeant, N. P. Brown "orated" in 
 his usual classical style, Tim Lynch surprised everyone with 
 his imaginative dream re the class fund, Barstow outlined a 
 policy for utilizing past secretaries, Donny had something to 
 
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say constructively on future get-togethers, Cavanaugh talked a 
 bit on football and there was music and song to the saturation 
 point. Those who sat about and listened were W. B. Adams, 
 Allen, Atwood, Barney, Clark, Dickey, W. R. Eastman, Hobbs, 
 Hodgkins, Huckins, Irving, Kendall and his friend W. C. Robie, 
 Osgood, O'Sullivan, Richardson, Rogers, J. L. Sanborn and 
 Wardle who came all the way from Grand Mere, Quebec. 
 Only four, Beal detained at home by illness, Evans kept away 
 by duties, Galusha away in Atlanta and Hobe detained in 
 Gardner by the long wind of the annual town meeting, out of 
 the local crowd were absent. Irving again gave joy with his 
 presence and when Sully made us catch our breath temporarily 
 as he thrust his shock of iron-gray hair through the door, a 
 "jubilate" went up from all throats. During the dinner Pitt 
 Drew brought the orchestra leader and his fiddle down so Sully 
 could play a bit. The look of trepidation that came over the 
 leader's face as he handed over his "Stradivarius" to Sully 
 was only surpassed by the amazement that shone there when 
 Sully got to going and Hodge threw five flat fits, accompanying. 
 From the beginning in the hotel lobby through the dinner in 
 the Dutch room to the usual aftermath about a table in the grill 
 it was an echo of the Quindecennial, dashed by Sully and 
 Hodge with a bit of the real old days. 
 
 R. G. Rowe Bob has been at the same thing only much 
 
 more of it. Increase in business has been due, 
 not to war, but to our success in low cost production as com- 
 pared with other navy yards and outside establishments. Bob 
 has a new house number, on South Street, this time. He hasn't 
 been to Hanover, but hear this, "Am going in 1919." That's 
 the first "announcement of intention." Good ! Bob says 
 "Sturt", the Keene banker, honored us with his presence one 
 night the past summer, and it is needless to say that we talked 
 over and lived over again the Quindecennial, etc. "Freddie" 
 Locke is still working here and of course I see him often. "My 
 vacation from August 7 to September 7 was spent very pleas- 
 antly, the first part of it being devoted to golf and auto trip 
 (by the kindness of good friends) through the White Moun- 
 
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tains, and thence to Richardson Lake (one of the Rangeleys) 
 where we spent several days fishing, collecting spruce gum, fir 
 balsam, etc., and eating — the Maine woods do give you some 
 appetite. We were twelve miles from the nearest village right 
 straight into the woods, some spot, believe me. I might tell 
 you many pleasant incidents in connection with our trip, but 
 time is somewhat limited, and I suppose there is a limit to your 
 patience." 
 
 F. R. Sanborn Ted didn't go to Europe after all. Mrs. San- 
 was taken ill in New York City about the time 
 they were to have started, and had to undergo an operation, 
 and while she has been much better since, has not been in the 
 best of health. They have been in Maine most of this last 
 summer for the benefit it could do her. Ted has done some 
 research work at Bellevue and at University Medical School 
 during the year. He is back in New York City again for the 
 winter. 
 
 J. L. Sanborn Jack uses a simile, that would do Professor 
 
 Emery's English teaching soul good, when he 
 talks about his work. After expressing a regret that his replies 
 to questions are so meager he ends up, "Am as busy as a cat 
 on a tin roof, so will get to work." Make your own deductions ! 
 Jack hired a cottage at Harwich Port for the summer season, 
 sent his family down there, and spent Saturdays and Sundays 
 and from August 6 to September 1 there, himself. The rest of 
 the year as a member of the Pawtucket Golf Club, he keeps 
 the upper hand on his avoirdupois by playing at the gentle 
 game of golf. 
 
 M. M. Sargeant "Mot" keeps a permanent hold on this earth 
 
 in New Bedford. June 1, 1914 he decided to 
 go into business for himself and has done so in a limited way. 
 He had always had a "hunch" that war was coming in Europe, 
 but the Kaiser surprised him a bit by putting the play over just 
 when he did. If "Mot" had known, he would have cut short 
 his after-reunion vacation in 1914, in the mountains and at 
 Candia in July, postponed it until later when the Stock 
 
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Exchange in New York shut down. It knocked his business, 
 listed securities chiefly, in the hole, though it did not throw him 
 into the sad and tragic situation, that many of the New York 
 men found themselves suddenly in. Like a good many others who 
 found their investment business curtailed, "Mot" has attempted 
 some side lines to even the situation up. The result has been a 
 whole lot of traveling. There have been frequent trips to New 
 York, several to Boston, and a business trip through the main 
 cities of Connecticut and to Springfield, two trips to Manches- 
 ter and Concord. Vacationing has consisted of automobiling 
 on the fine state roads that lead out in every direction from 
 New Bedford over the cape region. 
 
 Twice "Mot" has dropped in on the secretary, March 4 and 
 November 1. About some of the other fellows he has seen, 
 he writes October 24, "I have seen Wason for quite a talk, 
 could add quite a bit about his vacation at West Swanzey, but 
 that must come from Wason, Hoppy and Sturt. Bill is doing 
 remarkably well and is a prominent figure in Atlanta, covers a 
 great territory in the South for the powerful Roebbling's. Bill's 
 judgment is of a high order and recognized as such by his firm. 
 Met "Fod" Martin late in August at Bridgeport, Conn., station. 
 Immediately we set to work to plan a way to stop political graft- 
 ing, and to make it burdensome for a decent man, especially a 
 college man, still more particularly a Dartmouth man to lend his 
 name to a party of grafters to coax the popular vote. We 
 decided that social ostracism will do most, but my train came 
 along and we left the details for a later meeting. Pap is in no 
 end of glory, in the financial district these war days. He is 
 known quite widely (truly) in New York for his marked 
 opinions and prophecies. Pap is resting a bit these last few 
 days at Hot Springs." The most important item in the Sar- 
 geant household during the year was the birth, April 29, 1915, 
 of Marion Sargeant. 
 
 School Com- There are nine members of the class on town 
 mittee-men school boards : — Atwood, Dubois, Hawkes, 
 
 Hoban, Hopkins, Lyster, Musgrove, Sturte- 
 vant, Tootell. 
 
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H. H. Sears We asked Bill for his views upon his section 
 
 of California, and the relation of himself 
 thereto. Here they are; as of October 11, 1915, from Red- 
 wood City, California : — 
 
 Dear George: — I am going to speel off a lot of single line talk while 
 waiting for a party to come in, with the understanding that it will 
 serve as a rough draft and that 1 can with confidence entrust you to 
 rehash. 
 
 It is good to hear from old classmates : — it breaks up the steady 
 grind. After five years out here, with average progress, you will be 
 interested to know that I think it all worth while : — i. e., the learning 
 of a new country through sneezing its dust, drinking its alkali water, 
 poor whisky, (or non-dago-red), living more in the open than is pos- 
 sible in New England : — making Dartmouth deductions from your own, 
 and the experiences of others ; forging ahead by everlastingly keeping at 
 it ; working hardest when progress is nil. 
 
 There is so much highly colored literature on the market about 
 the Golden West (dust) that I cannot hope to compete. The Exposi- 
 tion Fair at San Francisco has helped to explain matters to thousands 
 of visitors. What the bull-con literature should state is that it is a 
 wonderfully undeveloped country, and retarded in its development, be- 
 cause but little understood by those who are trying to make progress 
 along temperate-zone-snow-and-frost lines. It's different out here. The 
 roses and flowers are commencing to bloom while certain trees are 
 shedding their leaves ; — it's so contradictory out here with the experi- 
 ence of other localities of the same latitude, that many efforts amount 
 to nothing — no progress, through lack of intelligent application. 
 
 The answers to the questions on the enclosed sheet, are made with- 
 out the care that they deserve, but I trust that they will serve your pur- 
 pose. My own work is now assuming more definite shape as I feel 
 more free to line up with the situation as I have found it to be. I came 
 out here with a very sick wife, and the climate has worked a wonderful 
 change to seemingly complete recovery. 
 
 This entire section lacks the industrial and commercial opportunities 
 to readily give a commercially trained man a position. No matter how 
 much ability one may have, there isn't the chance to apply it here that 
 there is in the more thickly settled east. This war tied up shipping of 
 California products, which in turn tied up engineering construction. 
 The Exposition brought out hundreds of school teachers, and eliminated 
 my usual "pot-boiling" occupation of teaching when there was no engi- 
 neering. My work as City Engineer on public street proceedings for 
 the past three years had put me in touch with legal matter, and the City 
 Attorney having an office adjoining mine, I formed the habit of search- 
 ing the court records. Briefly, September, 1914, found me registered as 
 
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a graduate student in the Law Department of Stanford University. I 
 followed the entire first year subjects without missing a lecture. It's 
 only fifteen minutes, in my machine, to the University. Work was 
 very slack in engineering, and by burning the midnight oil, adding one or 
 two white strands to my erstwhile raven (?) locks, I handled my pri- 
 vate, public engineering enough to clothe and feed. Last May upon 
 completing the year at Stanford, I entered as office assistant with the 
 City Attorney. We have a set of five rooms ; a common reception room, 
 and two rooms for my engineering, two for law. The Superior and 
 Justice courts are close by, and I continue my preparation for the Cali- 
 fornia Bar, and also am handling several engineering jobs, by work- 
 ing hard myself and holding others to the same effort. Competition 
 is keen, politics are just as intricate (nasty is the true word), as else- 
 where. There is nothing spectacular about it, — just humdrum-fruit- 
 flowers-sunshine existence. With kindest regards to all the fellows, 
 Sincerely yours, H. H. Sears. 
 
 Bill's busines card, you can imagine from the above, is 
 quite a document. It already indicates that he is an associate 
 member of Society Civil Engineers, is City Engineer, Redwood 
 City, Street Superintendent and City Engineer, Mayfield, Calf., 
 makes estimates and designs for buildings and bridges, surveys 
 property, that he is a licensed surveyor and Notary Public for 
 San Mateo County. Think what it will be when he becomes 
 a member of the bar ! His work requires lots of traveling, 
 fifty per cent of the time he is on the move, everywhere within 
 a radius of 200 miles. He has been often to Frisco Fair. But 
 it's too big, he says, for a Californian to describe in any space 
 we would allot him. He has seen "Randolph Rab" and says he 
 is married and happy. In addition to all above Bill is a Scout 
 Master of B. S. A., and for a vacation he arranged a summer 
 camp at Pascadero, San Mateo County, on the coast for his 
 troop. Bill sent two photos of the troop and himself that were 
 interesting, but when he characterized his vacation as "work" 
 he probably hit it right. 
 
 Secretaries' The Annual Meeting of the Dartmouth Secre- 
 
 Meeting taries' Association occurred at Hanover March 
 
 Hanover, 19th-20th. Fifty-three delegates were present. 
 
 March 19, 20, '15 The secretary of '99 was unable to be present, 
 
 but was represented by Donahue. Other mem- 
 
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bers of the class present were Kendall representing the Dart- 
 mouth Club of Boston, and Richardson in his role of Secretary 
 of the Executive Committee, General Alumni Association. 
 Donahue, who had been elected president of the association at 
 the previous meeting, did not preside owing to the fact that he 
 was no longer a secretary. Young '01, vice-president and suc- 
 ceeding to the presidency, took the chair. Richardson was 
 among those he appointed upon the committee on resolutions. 
 At the Saturday morning session, E. H. Kenerson, Donahue 
 and Professor Foster gave a symposium upon "Running 
 Reunions", and among the other speakers was "Long Jim", 
 who spoke on "Development of Alumni Council." The gist of 
 his speech was that the action of the council to date had been 
 to get a survey for bearings. The important thing of the whole 
 meeting was the appointment, upon the recommendation of the 
 committee on resolutions, of a "Committee on Efficient Co- 
 operation", consisting of C. H. Donahue '99, E. H. Kenerson 
 '03, Joshua B. Clark '11. "The duty of this committee is to 
 study the work of each (class) secretary and to confer with 
 the various secretaries in the endeavor to secure uniformity of 
 effort, greater enthusiasm and closer relation between each 
 class organization and the college and make a report of progress 
 at the next meeting." Castigating co-operators : at last we have 
 a position for live and experienced ex-secretaries, not unworthy 
 of their dignity and worthy of all their mettle. 
 
 M. F. Sewall Hooray, "Freem" has another son ! It is 
 
 Arthur Ditmars, born November 12, 1915. In 
 
 his profession Freem admits to having worked like . He 
 
 read a paper on "Auto Intoxication" before the Tri-County 
 Medical Society at Bridgeton in September. We might add 
 that he is the President of said Society, too. Freem has a 
 summer cottage at Ocean City, which he hires. He spent his 
 vacation there, and also in an auto trip through New York 
 State and the White Mountains. On the trip he saw Ralph 
 Hawkes, and was the first '99-er to call him "judge". 
 
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Frank Asbury Dartmouth men, young and old, graduates and 
 Sherman, Prof, non-graduates, felt keen sorrow when they 
 Mathematics. read a short time ago the press notice of the 
 Deceased Feb. death of Professor Sherman. 
 26, 1915. By Frank Asbury Sherman, a native of Knox, 
 
 R. H. Willard Maine, graduated from the Chandler Scientific 
 
 School of Dartmouth College in the class of 
 1870. During the Civil War he served for two years as cor- 
 poral of Maine volunteers. After graduation from college he 
 taught for one year in the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. In 
 1871 he returned to Dartmouth as associate professor of 
 mathematics in the Chandler School and from that time until 
 his retirement he was a member of the Dartmouth faculty. 
 From 1872 to 1893 he served as professor of mathematics in 
 the Chandler School and from 1893 to 1911 as professor of 
 mathematics on the Chandler Foundation. In 1911 he retired 
 from active teaching, but he remained in Hanover until his 
 death in the fall of 1915. 
 
 Probably few Dartmouth professors have been better 
 known to the alumni than was Professor Sherman. To them 
 he was familiarly known as "Frankie". The character of his 
 nickname indicates the secure place that he held in the affec- 
 tions of his students. During his career as a teacher, math- 
 ematics was a required subject for nearly all students and like 
 all required subjects to many it was as unpopular as it was 
 difficult. Students of a non-mathematical turn of mind, who 
 had the benefit of Professor Sherman's instruction, remained 
 deeply grateful to him for rough places smoothed out and for 
 successes gained. To the mathematician he was a constant 
 inspiration and help. Professor Sherman was a gentleman 
 through and through and his genial smile always accompanied 
 his greeting to his students and friends. To all his students he 
 was an inspiring instructor and a sympathetic friend. He was 
 ever ready to give ear to the troubles of his students and to 
 extend to them the help or the suggestions that they needed. 
 In turn they admired, respected and loved him. His was a 
 familiar figure on the streets of Hanover and for a long time 
 it will be greatly missed there. For many years, too, the old 
 
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town will not seem the same to visiting alumni, for with them 
 no one can fill the place which has been left vacant by the 
 death of Professor Sherman. 
 
 E. L. Silver "Sliver's" Normal School keeps on growing, not- 
 withstanding Sturtevant and Keene Normal 
 School competition, and it keeps "Sliver" on the continuous 
 jump. Just now he is watching with anxious eye the erection 
 of the main body and the north wing of his big new dormitory 
 that the State is erecting for him. The south wing is already 
 up and in use, and is a good looking bit of colonial brick and 
 stone architecture, whose good looks and special features are 
 in good part due to "Sliver's" taste and foresightness. As 
 school keeps nearly the whole year around for him, a summer 
 school being followed by a summer institute right after his 
 regular school work, he doesn't get any vacation. This he gets 
 in when he is traveling about giving talks, and when he comes 
 down to Boston to see "Donny" and get a German dinner. 
 "Sliver" is one of those who has made Hanover this last year. 
 
 E. R. Skinner Ed is Division Superintendent's Assistant at the 
 
 American Optical Company works. The work 
 is strenuous and confining. His only trip away from South- 
 bridge during the year was to Pemaquid Point, Maine, for a 
 little vacation. Both ways he tried to see Judge Hawkes, but 
 the Judge was not in town. Ed's diversion is his membership 
 in the local branch of Odd Fellows of which he is financial sec- 
 retary. About the keenest disappointment of the year was his 
 inability to get to Penn game and '99 supper. He hoped up 
 to last moment that he could get away, but his superior was 
 away, and as two of the foremen were out ill, he was com- 
 pelled to stick to his works. He wrote, "I certainly do wish I 
 could see you fellows, and I shall try to take in the next reunion 
 either in Hanover or Boston." 
 
 A. G. Sleeper Sleep's activities are numerous. Legally, he 
 
 has been engaged in some pretty big stuff, 
 Crawford et al and Nies et al, cases involving the $400,000 
 
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funds derived from the sale of the Methodist Church property 
 on Bromfield Street, the Horace W. Berry will case, $175,000, 
 and the Hiram W. Barker estate involving $800,000. Com- 
 mercially, he is interested in the Red Beach Plaster Company, 
 making "Plaster of Paris" from gypsum rock at Calais, Maine. 
 He is also trustee of several large estates. Sleep now maintains 
 a country place at Dennis on the cape. He got his vacation in, 
 by week-ends there, and by making his usual cruise on a friend's 
 large auxiliary sailing yacht. 
 
 S. J. Smith Here is a good letter from Sam Smith written 
 
 October 26, 1915 from Spokane, Washington: 
 
 Dear George: — Your letter should have been answered before. Pro- 
 crastination is my only excuse. 
 
 Since returning from the coast last March, I have been located 
 most of the time at Granger, Wash., in what is known as the Yakima 
 River Valley, about two hundred and thirty miles west of Spokane, 
 where we have a drainage contract. The nature of the work is some- 
 what different from what New Englanders would look upon as drainage 
 work, where it is done mostly to reclaim swamp or over-flowed land, 
 but the work I am on is draining land that was at one time only a sage 
 bush desert. About ten years ago the Reclamation service built a large 
 canal, diverting the water from the Yakima River to irrigate this large 
 section of the Yakima Valley, and the water has been used to such an 
 extent that it has caused the water table to raise, and the raising of the 
 water has caused the alkali in the soil to come to the surface, and 
 when the water evaporates the alkali forms a crust over the low land. 
 This deposit of alkali destroys vegetation, and it is to redeem this land 
 that the drainage work is undertaken. The contract work covers about 
 twenty-two miles of open ditch work, at a cost to the district of about 
 $19 per acre for the district benefitted. 
 
 About nine years ago Oakes built a railroad up into this territory. 
 Since that time it has changed to a paradise, but I have heard Oakes 
 speak of it as something far different from a paradise. Have been 
 planning for the last two months to be at Oakes' wedding at Portland, 
 but I could not arrange for it after all, but from all the paper accounts 
 there is no doubt but what he accomplished his purpose without me. 
 Have not seen a Dartmouth man since I returned from the east last 
 spring. 
 
 Wish that I could answer all your question in detail, but they will 
 have to be left for those nearer the center of the universe. My busi- 
 ness address is 806 Realty Building, Phone Main 7159, and house ad- 
 dress 324 First Avenue, Phone Main 6556, Spokane, Wash. 
 
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Have not had an opportunity to go to the Frisco Fair, but I do 
 expect to go east again this winter and hope I may see you. Yours 
 very truly, S. J. Smith. 
 
 In a letter to Jim Barney, Sam says he came east Christ- 
 mas 1914, but did not have an opportunity to go to Boston; was 
 at Thayer School annual meeting and dinner in New York, at 
 which Whittier was only '99-er present besides himself. He 
 was east again for Christmas 1915. 
 
 Sophomore Evans and Rice tie on the Sophomore Class 
 
 History, a History memory test. Both attributed it to 
 
 Memory Test Musgrove and Rice says he read it in South 
 
 Greek Room, Old Dartmouth. Ninety-seven 
 reported absolutely no recollection. A few others had some 
 hazy remembrances. Musgrove confesses to the soft impeach- 
 ment and Spade Heywood, following out a dormant instinct, 
 discovered corroborative "original resource" evidence hidden 
 away on page 34, '99 Aegis to the same effect. The sad thing 
 is the manuscript was never printed and was burned in Mus- 
 grove's Printing House fire. 
 
 G. E. Speare "Spehore" thinks his story the same old story. 
 
 It may be with respect to his teaching and 
 principalship. But to us there are new lights and shadows in 
 it. He has been doing some special work in New Hampshire 
 Constitutional History, and before the Institute for Superin- 
 tendents and Principals held at the Plymouth Normal School, 
 August 21-27, 1915, "Spehore" gave the following talks, (1) 
 The General Method of History Teaching — Application of 
 Chapter 22 State Program ; (2) Ancient History for High 
 School Freshmen; (3) European History for Sophomores; 
 English History for Juniors; and (4) American Constitutional 
 History for Seniors ; on successive days. They were said to be 
 both instructive and interestingly done. "Spehore" is a member 
 of the Littleton Lecture Course Committee, and Trustee of the 
 Littleton Library. He sees Silver much and hears much of his 
 achievements. Jim Pringle '97 hands out educational dope and 
 "Doc" Downing 1900 physic in the same town. But when Guy 
 
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feels the need of invigoration he gets his creel and fish poles 
 and camp trappings down from their pegs and hies himself to 
 the woods. That's the way he spent his vacation this year. 
 
 Guy in sending his regrets to Donny that he could not 
 attend the supper after Penn game said, "You are right, Donny, 
 I am '99, though classed with 1903, a toast then to '99 from 
 Littleton, over whom the Dartmouth range, with Mt. Dartmouth 
 in the foreground watches from afar, success to the supper and 
 all the splendid fellows and their wives gathered there." 
 
 F. C. Staley Things have been going well with Frank. 
 
 Increased price of wheat has helped out all 
 lines of business in his region. Frank has been up to Wichita, 
 Kan., several times, and likewise several times to Oklahoma 
 City, usually combining business and pleasure. Had one busi- 
 ness trip to Kansas City. Frank took a week off in June to 
 play in the State Championship Tennis Tournament at Okla- 
 homa City, and another week in July to play in Kansas, 
 Oklahoma Championship Tournament at Wichita. He and his 
 partner won the championship in doubles at latter tournament. 
 Frank is President of Major County Fair Association, Vice- 
 President Fairview Commercial Club, President Fairview Ten- 
 nis Club, and "Head fan for Fairview Baseball Club." 
 
 A. D. Storrs Dave reports "no change". But the list of 
 
 honors keeps growing. Dave is Superintendent 
 of the Cemetery, Trustee of Pine Park, Treasurer of the Pre- 
 cinct, and also Trustee of Beta Theta Pi, in the last taking the 
 position left vacant by the death of Professor Sherman. As 
 trustee of his fraternity, he has been overseeing some extensive 
 alterations in his fraternity house. Dave went fishing for a 
 vacation up on the College Grant, got some nice trout and saw 
 "Skeet" Tibbetts catch a four and one-half pound brook trout 
 on a fly-rod. Dave further says, "I do not know any news that 
 would fat your report. I did spend a week with Jim Walker 
 this summer, and had a fine time roaming around that part 
 of the state. Arthur 'Kid' Folsom was there. Nelson Brown 
 and Woodrow Wilson used our Golf Links this season, but 
 
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neither can beat Tibbetts at the game. I tried the game this 
 year, but spent most of the time hunting for balls on the lawns 
 of the residents besides the links." 
 
 C. C. Sturtevant "Sturt" has worked and drawn his salary. 
 
 He has made one Progressive Party Speech, 
 and given one Sunday School Convention talk. For a vacation 
 he took a trip to Portsmouth, Hampton Beach, Isles of Shoals, 
 also spent a few days in Munsonville, N. H. Sturt is a member 
 Board of Education, Union School District, Keene. He's run 
 across Adams, Hopkins, Locke, Rowe, Silver, and Wason. 
 Fletcher '00 has become a master of Central Grammar School, 
 Keene. 
 
 Summer Homes Twenty-eight men have summer places and two 
 Summarized own land upon which some day they expect to 
 
 build. Five of the places are family home- 
 steads retained for summer use and six of the places are not 
 owned but leased. They are divided as follows : Beaches 10, 
 White Mountains 9, Maine 4, Cape Cod 3, Iowa Lakes 1, Mas- 
 sachusetts Lakes 1, California 1, Pennsylvania 1. 
 
 Supper After A forward pass flashing out from a despairing 
 Game, Copley dead level of defeat and bursting like a brilliant 
 Square Hotel, skyrocket into a victory bringing touch-down, 
 Boston, beats caviar all hollow as a supper appetizer. 
 
 Nov. 6, 1915 Every ninety-niner and his wife, who walked, 
 
 rode, or flew as it were, from Fenway Park 
 to the Copley Square Hotel after the 6-3 game with "Pennsy" 
 on November 6 knows that the statement is indisputable, knows 
 too that you don't have to hurry down something else to cover 
 up the taste of this kind of an appetizer and that its action on 
 the palate will flavor pleasantly a whole evening's menu. 
 
 The ninety-nine supper "put over after the game" is the 
 basis for all the foregoing philosophy and some more. Even 
 the executive committee, post-mortemly speaking, think the 
 only doubt is whether to prefer the appetizer or the supper. 
 The latter was "some" supper however, even though they do 
 say it. 
 
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In the hotel parlor gathered W. B. Adams, Mrs. Adams, 
 Allen, Mrs. Allen, Atwood, Mrs. Atwood, Barney, Mrs. Barney, 
 Beal, Mrs. Beal, Cavanaugh, Clark, Drew, Mrs. Drew and Miss 
 Swain, Donahue, W. R. Eastman, Mrs. Eastman, W. F. Eaton, 
 Evans, Mrs. Evans, Gannon, Hardwick, Mrs. Hardwick, Hoban, 
 Mrs. Hoban, Hobbs, Mrs. Hobbs, Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins, 
 Huckins, Mrs. Huckins, Johnston, Mrs. Johnston, Kendall, Mrs. 
 Kendall, Mr. C. W. Robie, Lynch, Miss Lynch and Miss White, 
 Osgood, Misses Kaula, Parker, Payne, Mrs. Payne and Mr. 
 and Mrs. Hale, Richardson, Mrs. Richardson, Silver, Sleeper, 
 F. A. Walker, Mrs. Walker, Watson, fifty-five all told. 
 
 The subterranean Dutch Room where the "Round-Ups" 
 are held as regularly as the first Saturday night in March 
 appears on the calendar had been reserved so that the ladies 
 might see what their ears had often heard about. With 
 Hallowe'en caps upon their heads, and lanterns that were great 
 grinning green cat heads in their hands, a procession was started 
 at the end of a chatty hour upstairs, for the subterranean room 
 below. The winding staircase was dark. Bob Johnston with 
 "Progressive" boldness shouted "Hail, Hail, the game is over 
 
 now, what the do we care now", and essayed to lead the 
 
 company downward. Half way down on a window-ledge a 
 wild-eyed Jack-o'-lantern exhibiting a Rooseveltian front of 
 teeth gave familiar encouragement. Bob blurted forth some 
 more of the "Hail, Hail" stuff and the yellow eyes of the 
 Cheshire-like cat in his hand grinned. The "Hail, Hails" of 
 the rest of the company came falling down through the dark- 
 ness and the grinning cat-heads with the uncertainty of a 
 youngster's "first scales". Limping far in the rear came a last 
 faint "hail" from Hoban bringing up the end of the "peerade". 
 
 Warren Kendall threw open the door of the Dutch 
 Room. A long Halloween decked table, with four branches 
 and their accompanying chairs set as close together as a 
 fine toothed comb, showed up dimly in the darkness 
 and flickering candle light. Strange-mouthed, strange-eyed 
 Jack-o'-lanterns, some with two, some with three, some with 
 no teeth shouted out of the super darkness "Celery, Celery 
 give me the first appointment." "I don't do that now," replied 
 
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Celery, "you will have to apply to Ikey." The piano, under the 
 able substitution for Willis of his sister, Mrs. Kendall, pouring 
 out toothache powder "Hail, Hail" soothed the pumpkin pan- 
 demonium. Warren and Jim Barney helped out the candle 
 light by directing every one to his place. As each one put his 
 green cat down on the table, the latter's smiles grew more satis- 
 fying, indicating that this had been even a wee bit too spooky 
 for well bred green cats. Then some one turned on the lights 
 and the illuminating smiles of the green cats vanished with a 
 satisfied twinkle. 
 
 The wonderful results of crossing Halloween with Ninety- 
 Nine Dartmouth now became visible. Even the wonder-work- 
 ing biologist Pearl's eyes would have bulged had they been 
 there to see the result. There on the center table was a bit of 
 the green campus edged with Princess pine and upon it Hobe's 
 Eleazar Wheelock Pageantette in arrested progress. All the 
 characters were there, Findem Road, Occom, Eleazar and Mrs. 
 Occom in the cart, while an Indian kept his nose up against the 
 rum cask in the end of the cart and a weather eye out for the 
 cane of Charity wStudent Wardle who brought up the 
 rear. On one of the branch tables was a replica in miniature 
 of the garden party equally complete in detail, from refresh- 
 ment table through the receiving line to the "Peripatetic Piano" 
 and the musicians. On another branch table strange creatures 
 astride a keg labeled "Rum 500 Gal." sucked at straws through 
 the bung-hole. Witches, black cats and pumpkins nearly hid 
 the tablecloth. The chandeliers, the plate rail, the balustrades 
 of the stairs to the balcony were all hidden with greenery giving 
 off the aroma of the northern wood One of our big banners 
 hung from the plate rail behind the speaker's table, another 
 from the balcony rail and all about drooped Dartmouth pen- 
 nants, grinned down strange yellow pumpkin faces. It all made 
 a clever setting for a clever dinner and was due to the good 
 offices of Mrs. Pitt Drew and Mrs. James L. Barney and Mrs. 
 Drew's sister, Miss Swain, who kindly assisted them ; and the 
 fun which they had started by their introduction of Halloween 
 caps above stairs was continued by the Halloween blowers 
 which they had placed at each plate. It was a scene full of 
 
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color, full of fun, sufficient to make Luther Burbank shout 
 "mirabile dictu" or a '98 man weep with envy. 
 
 Suffice it to say that the dinner was a "man's dinner", even 
 though it was "ladies' night". In other words there was really 
 something to eat like steak, accompanied by individual pots of 
 baked beans because it was Saturday night. It was assumed 
 that after a football game even the ladies would have a mas- 
 culine appetite. As a topper off, with coffee the waiters brought 
 in a real five gallon keg. It was labelled "Eleazar's Rum", but 
 when it had been set up and the spigot turned, out poured 
 forth the finest of new sweet cider. 
 
 A good comfortable supper, with music, quips and jests 
 and the blur of blowers and Bob Johnston at the telephone 
 answering an imaginary call from the New York Sun for 
 "copy", giving a Johnstonesque description of the dinner and 
 the individual costumes of the ladies in his best manner might 
 satisfy 1900. Not so '99. With Donahue at the center of the 
 head table, acting as oratorical "quarterback", the oratorical 
 plays put over after the supper this time were for originality, 
 cleverness and worthwhileness up to real ninety-nine standard. 
 Even the yellow menu cards with their clever footballist cover 
 design in black, designed by Warren's cousin, had been an 
 original foretaste. But when it came time to start the real play, 
 Donny led off as only Donny can. Paul Osgood followed with 
 the "Dramatic Incidents of the Decennial and Quindecennial", 
 illustrated by stereopticon slides and for thirty minutes we re- 
 lived under his skillful narration the joys of those two red 
 letter events. When he had finished, Cig Adams kept the thrills 
 still running up and down our backbones by singing the Arcady 
 verses, that appeared in the Quindecennial Report, set to music 
 by him especially for the occasion. The lights were still down 
 and when the applause let up so anything could be interjected, 
 Cig took up the song again and the man at the stereopticon 
 threw on to the screen scenes illustrating the song, ending up 
 with the chorus. Everyone sang and everyone wanted to keep 
 it up, but the "quarterback" Donny started the ball moving in 
 another direction by another brilliant play. This time it was 
 Hopkins going around the right end with "Pills & Politics", 
 
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for a clever and witty touchdown wherein Musgrove and 
 Parker came in for laudation. Hodgkins who was unable to 
 enter the game at the last moment had his place taken on the 
 program by the "quarterback"himself. He pretended to make 
 the speech Hodge had prepared, but there seemed to be some 
 suspicion whether he wasn't making some introductory "quar- 
 terback" remarks masquerade as a real speech. They were so 
 good, however, that like the insanity of Hamlet you couldn't 
 tell whether they were or were not what they pretended to be. 
 The Ninety-Nine Troubadours came next. There was Maester 
 Master Adams, Troubadours-in-ordinary, Atwood, Barney, 
 Huckins, Sleeper and Richardson. Atwood was in Eleazar 
 costume and the rest in great flaring red hats and gorgeous 
 yellow sashes "designed and executed for the occasion" by Mrs. 
 W. R. Eastman and Mrs. Kendall. As they grouped them- 
 selves on the lower landing of the staircase, Long Jim stentori- 
 ally remarked "It's too bad Pap and Buck aren't here." Just 
 then there was a "honk honk" outside and in tripped "Lena". 
 She took a central position and with a prima-donna manner 
 reflective of Hoban's famous representation of Adelina Patti 
 without words, sang, together with the rest of her company, 
 "A Perfect Day" and for an encore "I Wish I Had a Barrel of 
 Rum". It was scandalous to see the vim Eleazar put into the 
 second song and even Lena misdemeanored herself, but it was 
 all joy-thrilling. Bob Johnston was down next for a play called 
 "Football, an Analysis". He started out with an Abou Ben 
 Adams dodge wherein he got quarterback Donahue mixed up 
 with Abou and ended up with a plea for the Dartmouth Livery 
 Stable Association, a benevolent society trying to help worthy 
 students to get to "Leb" and other places by supplying them 
 with loans of horse flesh. The last was a convulsing Don 
 Quixote parody upon the Dartmouth Education Association. 
 Bob always did have a faculty of getting signals mixed, but as 
 usual he came through a-flying for a touchdown. Donny intro- 
 duced the next play by saying that the printer had slipped up 
 and instead of "Football, A Synthesis", it should have been 
 "Football a 'cinch-it-is' ". With that under his arm Cavanaugh 
 made a superb run for ninety yards clear across the field. It 
 
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was Beal's turn next with some telling verses. Then the 
 troubadors came back and sang "A Warrior Bold" and "My 
 Girl's A Charming Lass" and Tim Lynch finished up the game 
 with a masterly executed run upon "99% Pure". The only old 
 war horse in the team had been Bob, but they had proven the 
 versatility of the class again and the correctness of the phil- 
 osophy at the bottom of the class machinery, to wit that every 
 man in the class is both a star player and a great team man 
 when called upon to play. 
 
 Like a bit of after-the-game pageantry was the way the 
 "quarterback" wound up the spectacle. Like good King Cole 
 he called for pipes to think the game over and lo by magic they 
 appeared, wee T.D.'s stamped with '99 on the bowls, bowls 
 all filled and green ribbons ornamenting the stems. They were 
 lighted. For a bit we smoked in silence; then some one started 
 spontaneously "Ho, a song by the fire, pass the pipe, pass the 
 bowl". In a moment Hovey's lyric was ringing through the 
 hall. As it died down Donny rose and with happy adjectives 
 began calling to mind one by one the men who were absent, 
 beginning with the farthest away, and ended up by proposing 
 a "skaal to the absent". It was drank. As we sat down Cig's 
 tenor and the piano started up Graham's Ode : — 
 
 "Together once more ere we sever 
 We light the pipe whose smoke will ever 
 Drift o'er the parting of the ways." 
 
 We drew another whiff at the wee pipes. In the smoke, arising, 
 resprung up the vision of a Class Day sixteen years back. The 
 hall rang with pathos, the hope expressed in the one living class 
 day ode, first sung that day. Afterward we stood up to sing 
 the Dartmouth Song and said goodbyes. The dramatic 
 aftermath spread over the dinner a tone of deeper meaning. 
 
 F. M. Surrey Frank reported "nothing but work," and for a 
 
 vacation "just loafed". The only thing out of 
 the ordinary has been a trip to Middleboro, and a visit from 
 Peddy, when in New York for the meeting of trustees of Fiske 
 University. Later, however, he wrote from New York, Novem- 
 ber 7, 1915:— 
 
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My dear Clark : — You characterize my replies to your questions as 
 "most awful meager" and I own the soft impeachment, but what are you 
 going to do when that is really the state of affairs with regard to inter- 
 esting events (at least to anyone else) in the life of a school teacher 
 who spends his vacations quietly at home. You suggest that I tell some- 
 thing about the Morris High School, its mechanism, and my part in it. 
 
 In the first place, there are twenty-three high schools here and 
 Morris is one of the largest, having an enrollment of nearly 5,000. They 
 are not all in one building, as we have an "annex" but more than 4,000 
 are in the main building. This is possible by having them divided into 
 two groups, one of which comes at 8.07 and goes at 1.15, while the other 
 comes at 1.30 and goes about 5.30. Our constituency is as cosmopolitan 
 as possible. One of our most recently admitted students was Arason 
 Stenigrimur from the Flensborg School, Hapnasfjord, Iceland. 
 
 As to my part in the mechanism, I am a member of the "Program 
 Committee," which arranges teachers' and pupils' programs. Three of 
 us on that committee do most of the scheming at the end of the old 
 term and the beginning of the new. We have to begin to plan for the 
 new term long before the old one is finished. Soon after we have a new 
 term started, and at intervals during the year, adjustments are made 
 in pupils' programs in accordance with their needs and capacities. I 
 have charge of this work, and it serves to keep one out of mischief a 
 considerable part of the time. I should have said that we promote every 
 half year and by subject, so that we have all kinds of complications in 
 pupils' programs. My official position is "Assistant Teacher," which 
 means one of the rank and file, but I am getting into all kinds of ad- 
 ministrative work in addition to my teaching, so as to be in line for the 
 next step, which is "First Assistant." I am doing the work of that rank 
 now, but promotions come slowly in a system like this and one's re- 
 ward for work done here is likely to come in the hereafter, or other- 
 wise than by promotion. Among other things I have rather responsible 
 work in connection with the registration of new students and the 
 "rapid dismissal" or fire drill. 
 
 Our "Regents' examinations" may be of interest as they are a 
 characteristic feature of this city and state. At the end of each semes- 
 ter we receive from the Board of Regents of the University of the State 
 of New York examination questions in all kind of subjects. One week 
 is devoted to these exams., and our ratings are subject to revi- 
 sion at Albany. Exams, have to be passed in certain subjects in order 
 to secure a high school diploma from any of our city schools. The 
 State of New York has rather recently adopted the plan of giving schol- 
 arships of $100 a year for four years to those who have highest rank 
 in the state examinations and who go to colleges in the state. This is 
 in place of supporting a state university. When the list was made 
 up this summer Morris High School took first rank in the state, with 
 
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the largest number among the first thirty-five, and with one of our 
 boys first on the list, his four years' exams, averaging ninety-six and a 
 fraction. 
 
 I have neglected to say anything about the social side. We have all 
 kinds of clubs and organizations imaginable : The Deutcher Verein, 
 Qui Vive, Debating Societies, etc., etc. Last Friday I was invited to act 
 as one of the "hostesses" at the Alumni Tea which is a monthly event. 
 
 In athletics Morris dose remarkably well considering the fact that 
 we have only about one-third boys and compete with other high schools 
 with nearly as large a total registration but all boys. Our football 
 team has already beaten two of the large boys' high schools of the city. 
 The rifle team is, however, our star aggregation. Last term they were 
 entered in matches with other schools of the city and state and some 
 of wider range, with a total of twenty trophies to be won. Our boys 
 brought home nineteen of the twenty. 
 
 Well, I believe I have covered the ground fairly well and I am sure 
 that I have quite outdone myself, so if you are not satisfied this time, 
 I am sorry. 
 
 It occurs to me to mention the fact that there are two other Dart- 
 mouth men on our faculty, Matthews '94 and McCarthy '08. G. S. 
 Blakely '88 left us a few years ago to become principal of a newly or- 
 ganized high school. Very sincerely yours, F. M. Surrey. 
 
 H. M. Tibbetts "Skeet" took care of one of the biggest Fresh- 
 man Classes in the Country as well as 1000 
 other students. He had an article on Dartmouth Football in 
 Alumni Magazine, May 1915. For a vacation he and Dave 
 Storrs went fishing for four days in the Maine woods. They 
 brought home their fish instead of coming home to tell about 
 them, and they were "some" fish, "Skeet" says. He and Dave 
 manage to get away once a year. "Skeet" says he can "classify" 
 only as general handy man for Dartmouth Outing Club on 
 ski jump, toboggan slide, etc., and that he is same thing for 
 Hanover Country Club, but they call it President. He is also 
 on Board of Governors of the Graduate Club. Mrs. Tibbetts 
 made a trip to Montana in September, and "Skeet" went out 
 to bring her back after he had the college settled down for the 
 winter. 
 
 Taxes The tax of $2.00 to cover the cost of this 
 
 report should be sent, by those who have not 
 paid in advance, to James L. Barney, Treasurer, 210 Freeport 
 
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Street, Dorchester, Mass. Jim says ''The cost of collecting," 
 that is postage et al, for the last report, was too high and that 
 the saving by immediate remittance would enable the class 
 report to blow itself to several illustrations. Therefore please 
 remit immediately. 
 
 A. B. Tootell "Toot" was in Great Falls November 17 on 
 
 jury duty. He borrowed Jordan's set of ques- 
 tions in order to reply. His ranch is nine miles east of Cascade, 
 no telephone nearer than one and one-half miles. This year he 
 raised an excellent crop of hay and grain and potatoes. He 
 has been doing some research on the determination of sex in 
 animals. He has a theory which he has been testing for some 
 years. For a vacation he naively remarks "I am on the jury." 
 'Toot" has been school trustee for several years, but is not just 
 now. He is secretary local grange and a director of its 
 building organization. He has seen Wiggin at a ball game in 
 Cascade, July 4, and Jordan several times during the year. 
 "Wiggin is the champion hog raiser of his district (Simms). 
 Jordan is about to go to Salt Lake." 'Toot" writes further 
 about his farming, November 17, 1915: — 
 
 Friend Clark : — My farming has been fairly prosperous this year, 
 thanks to the copious rains and the war in part. We are raising a few 
 horses and some dairy cows together with hogs and poultry. The com- 
 bination is fairly successful. We are raising alfalfa. This year for the 
 first time we had three crops without irrigation. Farming anywhere is 
 rather a busy life, and here where help is so expensive, there is a 
 strong temptation to try to do much more than one really ought to. 
 
 Way off out here we have some natural advantages, but we do 
 miss a great deal that we might have if we were living in your section 
 of the country. I haven't seen a good football game for years. Have 
 never attended a class reunion, and I feel that I have lost a great deal 
 that I was lawfully entitled to. 
 
 I do not run a car yet, but I do run a gasoline engine that we use 
 for plowing, threshing, and grinding. 
 
 Goodby for the present. I hope nothing will prevent my attending 
 the twentieth reunion of '99. Sincerely yours, A. B. Tootell. 
 
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Treasurer's 
 
 Report J. L. Barney in account with Class of '99: — 
 
 J. L. Barney 
 
 Receipts 1915 
 
 Cash from C H. Donahue $19.02 
 
 Balance from Quindecennial, W. C. Kendall 11.37 
 
 From taxes 194.40 
 
 From taxes in advance 97.00 
 
 Interest on deposit 5.13 
 
 Contribution for twelfth report from friend 125.52 
 
 $452.44 
 Expenditures 1915 
 
 Account book .50 
 
 Postage, printing and sundry expenses 22.67 
 
 Printing, plates, postage, etc., twelfth report 325.52 
 
 $348.69 
 Cash on hand December 31, 1915 103.75 
 
 $452.44 
 
 L. E. Varney Luke reports "hard fighting, winning some 
 
 cases and losing some. He is travelling most 
 of the time ; for during last year he has tried and argued cases 
 in United States Courts in Portland, Boston, New York, Buffalo 
 and Washington. For a vacation he motored in his new Ford. 
 ''Great stuff!" Got up to Hanover for once, motoring with 
 Batchelder '98 and party. Came back by way of Plymouth and 
 nearly scared the Secretary out of his wits by the volume of a 
 "Hello," as the Secretary was piously walking into the village 
 for a Sunday bite. He took the Secretary onto the running 
 board, and we had a "heart to heart" flying into town. 
 
 There have been rumors of house building by Luke in 
 Portsmouth. To our inquiry Luke wrote, October 4, 1915 from 
 New York: — 
 
 Dear George : — You have been misled, I fear, by the reports of 
 our new house in Dover. All that I have done is to get a little bigger 
 tract of land with one end stretching out into the country, where I 
 could plant a few cabbages and potatoes. The house is only incidental 
 to the garden. You see we had to have a cellar to keep the farm im- 
 plements in, because we have no barn. 
 
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My potatoes did not do well this year because of the excessive rains, 
 which doubtless prevailed at Plymouth as well as at Dover. But, never- 
 theless, 1 have had a great deal of pleasure in hoeing them and watch- 
 ing them grow ; and this has done me a lot of good. 
 
 The potato crop failure was more than made up for, however, by 
 the cabbage crop which I harvested. The cabbages were so large that 
 I had to convey each one individually into the cellar in a wheel-barrow. 
 They will supply boiled dinners for the neighborhood for the winter 
 and possibly through the spring, — that is, unless there is enough pro- 
 German sentiment to convert some of them into sauerkraut. We are 
 most all Irish up that way, however, so I expect the cabbages will hold 
 out, as I said, until the spring. 
 
 There is a lot more that I could write you about this garden for I 
 have simply spoken about the extremes, the potatoes and cabbages, one 
 a dead failure and the other a colossal success. I have simply written you 
 this to let you know that I have had a real garden. That is why you 
 have not seen more of me this summer, — when I have not been at my 
 desk I have been in my potato patch. 
 
 Kindly let me know what you use for potato bugs in your garden, 
 and how crops were this year up Plymouth way. More anon and cor- 
 dially yours, Lucius E. Varney. 
 
 Luke now makes flying week-ends to Portsmouth, and then 
 gets into a pair of blue jeans, and wields the goad over his 
 steers for recreation and religious stimulation. 
 
 J. B. C. Walker Jim has done very well in all his occupations, 
 
 to wit, dealer in grain and groceries, lumbering, 
 insurance and as postmaster at Lee. He has traveled about 
 all over New Hampshire this year, both for pleasure and busi- 
 ness. Mrs. Walker went to Frisco Fair. But he didn't take 
 any vacation himself. Had a week's visit from Dave Storrs. 
 That amounted to the same thing. 
 
 F.A.Walker Fred says modestly: "Made a living." How- 
 
 ever, we note that he has acquired, this last 
 summer, "a very modest shack" at Lake Boon, Stowe, Mass. 
 He spent his vacation there. He sees "Cav" frequently, Skin- 
 ner occasionally, and reports that Bill Atwood called on him 
 several times. 
 
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The War "Has the war affected you? How?" brought 
 
 chiefly negative answers. These, as well as the 
 affirmative answers, showing either harmful or beneficial in- 
 fluence, are more interesting when applied to the types of work 
 existing among the members of the class. We have therefore 
 classified the occupations of the class, trying to reduce them to 
 their fundamentals. It should be borne in mind, however, that 
 the question was personal and a negative answer by the indi- 
 vidual might not be indicative of the exact effect upon the type 
 of occupation. Still with this possible element of errors, the 
 result is not without interest. 
 
 The classification with the numbers in each group and the 
 effect of war financially upon the group is as follows : — Actor 
 ( 1 ) none ; Automobiles ( 1 sales agent for Northwest United 
 States, 2 salesmen for accessories in East, 1 manufacturing 
 foreman limousine bodies) none; Banking (3) 1 president 
 Oklahoma Bank reports increased business through rise in 
 price of wheat, 2 clerks, one in Texas, one in New Hampshire 
 unaffected ; Book Store college town ( 1 ) , little affect, some 
 supplies harder to get; Brokers, stock and investment (3) two 
 in New York City absolute stagnation followed by unusual 
 activity, one in West reduced activity through investment timid- 
 ity; Building, house, etc., (1) New England much activity; 
 Carpet and rug manufacturing (1) West, severe loss through 
 closing Boston and Montana copper smelter, Great Falls ; Cement 
 (1) unreported; Chemists (3) a soda syrup mfg., combustion 
 engineer, lost source of supplies ; Advertising manager for Bak- 
 ing Powder Co., unaffected; Coal dealer (1) none; Creamery 
 (1) none; Dentist (1) none; Doctors (15) located New Eng- 
 land (7), New York and Pennsylvania (4), Michigan, 111. (3), 
 Washington (1), some reported collections harder and increased 
 cost of supplies and in Philadelphia one has suffered loss of 
 French patients owing to return to France of French reservists, 
 two of these situated next to Canadian borders report commer- 
 cial intercourse of their districts with Canada at stand still ; 
 Druggist (1) reports "not noticeable"; Dry Goods merchant 
 (1) New England, none; Engineers (11), one factory construc- 
 tion engineer net being favored with war order factory work 
 
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designed very little, four railroad engineers Eastern were busy, 
 but report no new work being undertaken, two railroad con- 
 traeting engineers (West) report railroad building at standstill, 
 and only engineering work ahead is irrigation and drainage 
 problems on hand, two contracting railroad and general engi- 
 neers Southern absolute arrest of work, one civil engineer Cali- 
 fornia reports "war cut off all private engineering work and 
 nearly all municipal construction," 1 paper mill engineer reports 
 diversion of capital from paper mill building; Farming (3) 
 benefited, good times in bituminous coal region helped farming 
 there and the increase of price of wheat ("though low") helped 
 Montana farmers ; Fine furniture ( 1 ) "made business quiet" ; 
 Flour (2) none; Gas engines, marine (1) cut off export busi- 
 ness, but given indirectly some other business; Groceries (2) 
 one reports wholesale prices higher and money hard to get, an- 
 other clerically connected unaffected; Insurance (3) one in New 
 York State reports business not so brisk, other two including 
 Life Insurance examiner unaffected; Lawyers (13) unaffected; 
 Leather board mfg. (1) inability to get aniline color now, many 
 supplies higher, very little in main, felt general slowing in busi- 
 ness at first; Librarians (2) not affected in work, one was about 
 to publish a translation of a German work on America which 
 publishers cancelled; Lumber (3) one dealing in building lum- 
 ber unaffected, two in portable mill operations, query whether 
 trade standstill due to war or other causes; Minister (1) none; 
 Metal trades in Worcester (1) draftsman stimulated; News- 
 paper (3) trade paper editor and sporting editor unaffected, 
 news editor overworked ; Optical works ( 1 ) none ; Packing 
 house (1) chemist unaffected; Painting supplies and decorating 
 ( 1 ) none ; Plaster paris mfg. ( 1 ) export trade cut off ; Printing 
 ( 1 ) unaffected ; Property development ( 1 ) unreported ; Pulp 
 (1) construction engineer in residence "not materially"; Rail- 
 roading (3) one not directly, two "none"; Real Estate (2) Cali- 
 fornia, Canada, depressed; Rubber (1) very active; Scale mfg. 
 (1) took edge off business compelling temporary salary reduc- 
 tions; Shoes (1) efficiency mgr. "no"; Teaching, collegiate (9) 
 prevented one from journey of investigations in Balkans, in- 
 duced another to a tour of observation among warring nations, 
 
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otherwise unaffecting ; Grammar and high school (15) unaf- 
 fected save for one chemistry teacher who felt the increased 
 price of chemical supplies and chemical apparatus, i.e., "goose 
 necks"; Telephone (1) commercial representative "none," un- 
 classified (1) query: U. S. Navy Yard (2) active but "increase 
 in business due not to war, but to success in low cost of pro- 
 duction as compared with other yards and outside establish- 
 ments;" Woollen (1) unaffected as mfg. confined to white wool- 
 len flannel for babies underwear, etc. One shipment, however, 
 to Australia may be due to war; Wire products (1) Roebling's 
 Southern sales mgr., "Reduced our business in sight in eight 
 Southern states about 25%." 
 
 It will be noted what a small proportion are detrimentally 
 affected and there seems to be some question whether the busi- 
 ness standstill in the West instead of being due to the war is 
 not due to over development. 
 
 On the other hand the mental effect of the war has been 
 varied. Note how the following replied to "Has the war af- 
 fected you ?" : Bailey, "Yes, it makes me sad" ; Benezet, the 
 grandson of the First Grenadier of the Guard under Napoleon, 
 "No, except in my sympathies" ; Donahue, "Wasted a lot of my 
 time figuring out how England and Germany both could be 
 licked and all the others win" ; Gerould, "At times it interfered 
 with proper work" ; Hoskins, "Yes, Mrs. Hoskins is of Ger- 
 man birth" ; Leavitt, "Made me mad" : Locke, "Only disgust" ; 
 Lynch, "Very much desired to be in the scrap"; Pearl, "Has 
 stirred up my bile dreadfully ; otherwise only indirectly. Is any- 
 body in the class, except perhaps Hen Berger, pro-German ?" ; 
 Richardson, "Only to afflict me with an almost physical sense 
 of depression and sickness whenever I allow my mind to really 
 rest upon it and to produce from me an occasional contribution 
 to the various relief funds. I have mingled feelings about 
 these. They are splendid undertakings, but I cannot give with- 
 out wondering whether our turn may not come next and if so 
 whether every dollar will not be needed at home" ; Sewall, "Po- 
 litically made me a more staunch G. O. P. ;" Speare, "Stirred up 
 rows with my friends" ; Varney, "No, except to make me an 
 
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advocate of preparedness" ; Willard, "Inspired in me a great de- 
 sire to see Germany licked good and proper." 
 
 E. B. Wardle Weary has been completing the hydro electric 
 
 development of Laurentide Co., including in- 
 stallation of six 20,000 h. p. water wheels with accompanying 
 electrical equipment. Travel has been between plant and the 
 links. He did, however, attend Boston Round Up. No vaca- 
 tion. Weary is Chairman of Green's Committee on best 9 hole 
 course in Canada. We quote below a letter from Mrs. Wardle 
 describing life at Grand Mere: 
 
 Life in a Canadian mill town may not sound idyllic, but under the 
 right circumstances it may be so. We are all very enthusiastic over it. 
 Ed has a big job on his hands, but it is intensely interesting and he 
 has splendid people to work with. Socially, we have found everything 
 very pleasant, English. American and Canadian, all full of the same 
 delightful feeling. We have a very pleasant house with woods on three, 
 sides of it, barn, garage, garden, chicken house, bear cage, and big 
 lawns. The bear cage is empty now and the children use it for a play- 
 house in summer. 
 
 In the summer we can play tennis on asphalt courts maintained by 
 the company, golf on a very good nine-hole course (resident profes- 
 sional), ride, drive, motor, fish and dance. In the fall there is good 
 hunting without going too far. (I could buy moose meat for 20c. a 
 pound and black ducks for 30c. apiece all last month.) And 
 in the winter sleighing, skiing, snowshoeing and sliding, too much snow 
 for much open air skating, but there is a fine big rink and we generally 
 have a first class hockey team. There is a club house with reading, card 
 and billiard rooms and an assembly hall for basketbll, indoor baseball, 
 dances, concerts, etc. If you want to have a party and feel that your 
 house is too small, you can use the big club house veranda in summer 
 or the assembly hall in winter. The children go to a school maintained 
 by the company, one hundred and fifteen pupils, and 5 teachers, three 
 Americans, one English, one Canadian. The company's houses are well 
 built and taken care of, the streets and sidewalks kept in fine condition, 
 electric light and telephone service good and cheap, food, except milk 
 and fruit, considerably lower than in New Jersey, the little dry-goods 
 stores surprisingly good. We go to Montreal to get our teeth filled and 
 to buy our books and clothes. 
 
 There are an amazing number of motor cars in the province, con- 
 sidering the bad roads. A fine new road has just been built between 
 Montreal and Quebec and in the spring we are promised one between 
 here and Three Rivers which will communicate with it. 
 
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We have all been in very good health since coming here. The air 
 is like Rhine wine, thin, clear and stimulating, and so dry that one 
 doesn't mind the cold. 
 
 The war has been felt surprisingly little here. There has been plenty 
 of work and though about one hundred and forty have enlisted, they 
 have all been English or Canadians. French Canada is by no means 
 doing her share in the war. The habitants' view of life is purely 
 parochial. The English speaking population is probably not more than 
 five per cent of the whole in this town. 
 
 In listing our amusements I forgot to say that when Ed finishes his 
 dam, we shall be able to go to La Luque, eighty miles up the river in a 
 motor boat. At present going out on the river is too precarious to be 
 classed as an amusement. It is a hazard. 
 
 Warren's Warren is the traveling member of the execu- 
 
 Wanderings: tive committee. The little visits with distant 
 Stray Memories ninety-niners, shunted into business journeys, re- 
 Corralled, ported by him at the committee luncheons, were 
 
 so good that they evoked for him one day the 
 title of Class Shepherd, unanimously bestowed by the rest of 
 the committee, and in order that the class might also have the 
 benefit of them he has corralled the following stray memories : 
 
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 Scene — Fifteenth floor of a large office building entirely occu- 
 pied by the Universal Portland Cement Co. 
 
 Place — 208 So. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111. 
 
 Time — September, 1915. 
 
 Enters C. S. from a wide corridor into a well lighted spacious 
 outer office, presided over by an extremely well groomed 
 but officious Office Boy. 
 
 Class Shepherd — "Is Mr. Kirk to be found here?" 
 
 Officious Office Boy — "Don't know 'im, Sir." 
 
 C. S. — "Are you sure he's not connected with some part of this 
 organization? The City Directory guided me here." 
 
 O. O. B.— "Well, he might be here. Wait a sec and I'll see." 
 
 (Whereupon the O. O. B. withdrew from a p. h. in his desk 
 
 a list of names, which paper does not show signs of much 
 
 thumbing.) 
 
 O. O. B.— "Initial?" 
 
 C. S.— "H. B.— Harold Bruce Kirk." 
 
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O. O. B. — Yes, I guess you're on all right. Here it is. Wait 
 
 a minute." 
 (Exit the O. O. B. as though to produce once more the long 
 
 lost, though never forgotten associate of days about the 
 
 Dartmouth campus and in Reed Hall during freshman year 
 
 of 1895-6. Just 20 years ago.) 
 Re-enter O. O. B. — "Just a minute, Sir, Mr. W. the Department 
 
 Head will be here." 
 (In a short time the C. S. was ushered most courteously into a 
 
 private office by the D. H.) 
 D. H.— "You are looking for a Mr. Kirk?" 
 
 C. S. — "Yes, Sir, a Mr. Harold Kirk who was a classmate at 
 
 Dartmouth and whom none of us have seen and scarcely 
 heard from for several years." 
 
 D. H. — "Well you're surely on the right trail for I distinctly 
 
 recall hearing him say something about being at Dart- 
 mouth." 
 
 (After further and more positive identification by means of 
 physical characteristics — frequently unsafe after a 20-year 
 interval — and other very proper things to mention to one's 
 business associate or superior officer the D. H. volunteered:) 
 
 'Yes, Mr. Kirk is one of our field men and has as a territory 
 Southern Illinois and a part of Indiana. He's down there 
 now so I'm sorry you won't be able to see him unless you 
 are to be in the city for some time." 
 
 C. S. — "Tell me, please, what you can about Kirk. We used to 
 
 call him 'Squaw.' You see very few of us have seen him 
 in all these years, much less hear from him and as we are 
 anxious to keep in touch with everyone of the fellows, the 
 boys will be anxious to know what he is doing, how he is 
 getting on, about his family, and so on." 
 
 D. H. — "Kirk, I am gkd to say, is counted one of our best out- 
 
 side men. He has been very successful and is getting along 
 first rate. He hasn't been with us very long, but is doing 
 very well. He appears happy and seems to enjoy his work. 
 His trips usually take from four to six weeks. You can tell 
 the boys that Kirk is all right and even if you don't hear 
 from him it isn't because he doesn't care about you fellows 
 
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or never thinks of you. It's just his way. Oh, yes, he's 
 married. Has a fine wife, though I think no little folks. I 
 don't know whether they keep house or board. No, don't 
 worry if you don't hear from him. That's Kirk. His heart 
 is right." 
 
 C. S. — "Do you know whether or not he is interested in politics, 
 
 is prominent in club life, or follows any other hobby?" 
 
 D. H. — "No, I cannot say a thing outside his business affairs, 
 
 I'm sorry to say. He hasn't much time for these outside 
 things and I doubt very much whether he takes time for 
 them when in Chcago." 
 As there was apparently but little more to be gained by detain- 
 ing this friend of Squaw's longer, the C. S. expressed his 
 thanks, left a cigar and was gone. 
 
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 Dr. Charles E. Cushman of Chicago and Joliet, 111 ! Busy ? 
 At 6 p. m. he greets you with coat off and sleeves rolled up and 
 no apparent notion of its being time to go to his club for sup- 
 per. If "Cush" enlarges his field of influence much farther he 
 will need an oversize business card for his present activities, 
 addresses, etc., already require 14 engraved lines by actual count. 
 The card verily looks more black than white. "Cush's" business 
 zeal is only exceeded by his hospitality. Taken by surprise he 
 was none the less able to arrange for an evening off and treat 
 the traveller to a splendid dinner and a delightful moonlight ride 
 in his Haynes Six roadster. We dropped in for a few minutes 
 chat with Burpee Taylor '97, who is in business only a short 
 distance from him. The memory of a former visit from our 
 own Dr. David Parker still lingered with "Cush." Perhaps the 
 conviviality of kindred spirits and the common meeting ground 
 of the profession had much to do with that mutual good time. 
 It's good to see our fellows calling on each other and no one 
 enjoys it more than our prominent Chicago classmate. More 
 
 success to him. 
 
 ***** 
 
 Dr. Neal S. Hoskins ! Nearly a year ago the C. S. dropped 
 off a Michigan Central train at Detroit one Sunday morning 
 and after breakfast boldly 'phoned Dr. Hoskins for an ap- 
 
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pointment. When positive identity had been established, a 
 warning was given to watch out for a round-faced, well-fed 
 individual who shortly would be approaching in a runabout. A 
 few moments later, "Hoss" with the old familiar stride and 
 the same happy smile was seen coming from a waiting auto. A 
 hearty handshake after nearly sixteen years made one feel that 
 time indeed has passed quickly. It wiped out the whole period 
 and I was talking again with the campus friend as though on 
 an after-breakfast stroll from McMurphy's down street on a 
 Sunday morning. It was indeed delicious after all these years. 
 We went to the Doctor's office. At times the dignity of added 
 years and responsibilities were present, especially when being 
 shown over the plant and meeting other members of the firm 
 of which "Hoss" is one of three. But alone in his office with a 
 panoramic view of Lisbon and a Dartmouth picture or two for 
 inspiration, the same old fire of genuine fun was again aflame 
 and I realized what a lot we had lost in not having had him 
 present at all our gatherings. Nothing was forgotten, no detail 
 of college days had gone from his mind. 
 
 "Hoss" and his partners and associates dispense healing in 
 Detroit on about the same systematic and complete plan that 
 Filene caters to "man, woman and child." This was decidedly 
 new and interesting and yet how simple, how convenient, how 
 sensible and how thorough, both for doctor and patient. Here 
 was a whole floor, twenty odd rooms, well up in a large office 
 building, prominently located and spic span new. A corps of 
 doctors, specialists in their lines, X-ray operators, nurses and 
 attendants were there, that every "ill that flesh is heir to" might 
 receive the special attention it required. No operations are 
 performed here, however. These, if necessary, are done at 
 the hospitals. Doctoring is thus made both professional and 
 business-like. Unprecedented growth had required a removal 
 to these larger and newer quarters after two years working 
 out of the idea. The "Hoskinorum School of Science" in San- 
 born Hall was a wonderful germ plasm. 
 
 At one time when off guard, or perhaps to indicate that 
 he is still human, "Hoss" pulled out the "makin's" and pro- 
 ceeded to roll his own smoke. It was an impressive picture. 
 
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The original of the Bull Durham moving picture van had noth- 
 ing on our friend, Doctor Hoskins, "Old Doctor Hoskins" as 
 Bobbie would say ; and as the C. S. and the Doctor talked on 
 through the welling smoke, the impression took root with the 
 C. S. that the class will surely see this member of it, that it 
 much wants to see, at the reunion in 1919. 
 
 While the C. S. was walking along a busy street in Roches- 
 ter, N. Y., looking for some place where a directory would be 
 found to tell him "Bill" Nye's office number, he was attracted 
 to an individual who was holding down the curb, apparently 
 waiting for a trolley. There was something familiar about the 
 figure with yet a doubt. The C. S. made a wide detour. The 
 figure eyed him in return. The C. S. walked by, turned and 
 came back again taking a wide sweep and then boldly ap- 
 proached. "Is this you, Bill Nye?" It was and on the very 
 corner overhead on a window of the Chamber of Commerce 
 was "Nye & Forbes, Ins." in gold lettering, if the C. S. had 
 only looked up. There was a quick and hearty invitation to 
 "come up to the office" and all business was over for that day. 
 
 "Bill" and his partner are firmly established in general in- 
 surance business with several field men and a busy office force. 
 There is a certain air of prosperity about the place. Knowing 
 "Bill" we would be sure there was a good foundation or no 
 buildings. It was all there and apparently the result of indi- 
 vidual effort. 
 
 A little later Mrs. Nye was consulted and it was found 
 there were enough potatoes "in" for an extra, and an invita- 
 tion cordially given was heartily accepted. Thereafter the C. 
 S. had to say "Ed." The C. S. cannot go further without pay- 
 ing homage to the lady who presides over that home with her 
 fine little brood of three, two boys and a girl. He was made 
 to feel delightfully at home with never a thought of a stranger 
 just dropping in. "Ed" has seen but a few of us the past sev- 
 enteen years and Mrs. "Ed" knows practically none. It was 
 therefore keenly interesting to go through the pictures in the 
 last report and point out this one and that one. It meant for 
 
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them immediate acquaintance for the reports are well read in 
 that home. Our ladies will all be glad to welcome Mrs. Nye 
 in 1919 for she is one of us. So after an all too-short evening 
 discussing everything Dartmouth and Ninety-Nine, "Ed" piloted 
 the C. S. back to the station where a sleeper was taken for 
 Boston. Note : This was a Boston & Maine sleeper. The next 
 reunion will find the Nyes on deck from Saturday to Wednes- 
 day. 
 
 The C. S. shall have to call Herb Collar a "movie fan" for 
 one fine evening last summer, while it was yet light, the C .S. 
 tried to reach Herb by 'phone from the Buffalo Union Station 
 and was informed that he was "out for a little while," but 
 would return about nine. After telling who the C. S. is, Mrs. 
 Collar confessed to the movie habit and said Herb would be 
 glad to come to the station even if for only a short time. The 
 train left at 9.45 so we only had a brief half hour together. 
 Our famous 220 man is not much heavier than when in college, 
 — a good number of us are sorry we cannot say the same, — but 
 he is none the less happy and is prospering with the others. 
 While it is difficult because of his modesty to get "Herb" to 
 admit anything, yet he has a fine position with good prospects. 
 If any of you go through Buffalo, be sure to stop over a train 
 to see "Herb." 
 
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 Dan Ford and the C. S. missed connections, so that their 
 visit was confined to a short bench warming experience in the 
 Milwaukee Railroad Station at Minneapolis one night in Janu- 
 ary last, but it was good. Dan with his short sharp fire told of 
 his University duties and while he would scarcely admit it, he 
 is surely making his influence felt and his importance is in- 
 creasing as shown by the work which is falling to his lot. Re- 
 sponsibilities look for broad shoulders upon which to lean and 
 Dan in his own way is carrying his load and doing it in a 
 manner to reflect much credit upon himself. The C. S. couldn't 
 get all of this out of Dan, but he got it elsewhere. 
 
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It was regretted that more time was not to be had for 
 a visit to Dan's house. A cordial welcome was extended by 
 'phone by Mrs. Ford and the C. S. is looking forward to this 
 another time. 
 
 Keene, N. H., isn't so very far away, but unless one has 
 definite business there the chances are unfavorable for stop- 
 ping, even though it has the usual attributes of a beautiful New 
 Hampshire town. 
 
 The definite business, however, came one day and the 
 C. S. stretched it out to cover a night and descend upon "Sturt" 
 and Charlie Adams. A church supper claimed "Sturt" before 
 the C. S. could make his presence known, else he fancies he 
 should not have had to eat at that really splendid Cheshire 
 House. But Charles and his family were not so minded 
 that evening and the C. S. found them at home. Charles has 
 an idea that the whole western part of Southern New Hamp- 
 shire will go hungry or without confections if he doesn't stick 
 to his job. But that's not the only reason. He has a family, 
 wife and two fine children. He is digging now that he may 
 take his leisure later when he's his own boss. Such faithful- 
 ness hath its reward. It's my opinion that the C. E. Adamses 
 go to Hanover in June, 1919, as Mrs. Adams will insist upon it. 
 
 A meeting with "Bill" Hutchinson at his father's funeral 
 in Norwich last winter does not make just the narrative to 
 write about, that being more of a personal matter. To those 
 who haven't seen Bill since 1909, or even longer, it should be 
 said that he has sobered up a great deal, looks upon life with 
 considerable seriousness, and is one of the more solid and sub- 
 stantial men of his community. He is highly successful in his 
 chosen work as we all know he would be. 
 
 These stray memories of the C. S. do not deal at length 
 with other seen oftener such as "Tedo," "Mott" Tom Whit- 
 tier, "Herbie" Watson, "Phil" Winchester, "Sully," Jack San- 
 born and other hardy perennials regularly seen at our various 
 
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anniversaries. It is a great joy to be able to call upon those 
 who by their choice or fortune are located away from the cen- 
 ters and take to them in a humble way the cordiality of the 
 class through the Executive Committee and perhaps to bring 
 them into a bit closer touch with the class as a unit. It is 
 the C. S.'s purpose, so far as he is able and he expresses a 
 hope that others may emulate his purpose, in calling on a class- 
 mate seldom seen, thereby tending to bring us all into a closer 
 companionship for good to Dartmouth and for the renown of 
 our splendid class. Even "Kimmie," The "Rab," Horace 
 Sears, "Bones" Woodward, "Bill" Wiggin, "Toot," the two 
 new emigrants "Ted" Child and John Ash, Frank Staley, "Doc" 
 Norton, and Sam Burns are not beyond the C. S.'s ambition. 
 Since the Executive Committee have willed it and made him 
 the Class Shepherd, his voluntary visits have taken on a class 
 duty. If not welcome any one may turn the latch on him. His 
 faith is in the fact that he has never seen a Dartmouth man, 
 much less a Ninety-Nine man, who was not always glad to 
 grasp the hand of such a wanderer. 
 
 H. A. Wason Bill has worked harder than ever before and 
 
 made a poorer material showing, so he says. 
 The war reduced his business in Southern States about 25%. 
 As Bill spends about one half of his time in traveling through 
 the South, he feels that he does his share of it. For a vacation, 
 it is, therefore, a pleasure to settle down in some one spot, in- 
 stead of traveling as many like to do, so he has been making a 
 practice each year of returning to a cottage which he hires at 
 West Swanzey, N. H. Take it with Ash and Childs in the 
 South, and "Mot" Sargeant and Berger in New York, and Dr. 
 Hopkins, Sturtevant and C. E. Adams in Keene, he has seen 
 quite a few '99-ers during the year. 
 
 Bill's letter accompanying answers to questions tells inter- 
 estingly of his vacation, and some of the things you want to 
 know about. It's dated Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 23, 1915: 
 
 My dear George : — I am enclosing the questionnaire filled out, as 
 you will note, mostly with monosyllables. 
 
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Two of our ninety-nine men have forsaken the Southeast during 
 the present year and have gone to the Northwest. John Ash and "Ted" 
 Child, who were in Atlanta during the greater part of the year of 1914, 
 and then in Chattanooga until the spring of 1915, have moved to Cor- 
 vallis, Oregon. John took his family, consisting of his wife and five 
 children as well as a nurse maid, from Chattanooga to Corvallis in his 
 Hudson touring car. They camped along the way and made the trip 
 of more than 3000 miles without accident or sickness. There was an 
 interesting article published in the Corvallis newspaper giving a good 
 deal of publicity to the trip. Ash and "Ted" are in the general con- 
 tracting business, and are in addition conducting a manufacturing plant. 
 
 My family passed four very pleasant weeks at West Swanzey this 
 summer. While there a slight illness of mine made it necessary to call 
 in a physician. Dr. Hopkins drove over in his car from West Swanzey 
 to the camp, and you can imagine my pleasure in finding that the doc- 
 tor was our little "Hoppy." This accidental meeting afforded us an 
 opportunity for a very pleasant reunion, and led to my getting ac- 
 quainted again with "Sturt" and C. E. Adams who live in Keene. 
 
 Your reference to Frank's matter in your note of Sept. 26 just 
 goes to show that Frank's fate was of a great deal more interest to 
 the East and North, than it was to the South. It is absolutely impos- 
 sible for anyone to understand the Southern viewpoint unless he has 
 lived here and become one of the people. I believe the majority of 
 the decent citizens think Frank's end was no more than he deserved. 
 Far be it from me to dissent from this opinion. The means were rather 
 harsh, but we have a way of ignoring the means where the end to 
 be accomplished seems vital. Ex.-Gov. Slaton is at home again and 
 thus far unmolested, although there have been some dire predictions 
 made as to his bodily safety. 
 
 I wish some of our good Dartmouth men would come South. 
 Sometimes I feel isolated, particularly since Ash and Child beat their 
 retreat to Oregon. If I can get to Boston soon, or whenever I may, 
 I am going to let you know I am coming and we will have a little 
 reunion of our own, and I wish to see everyone of the old ninety-nine 
 men in that neck of the woods. I am just hungry for that sort of 
 thing. 4 
 
 I am going to be in New York in January or February, and sin- 
 cerely hope I may see you then. — As ever, — Wason. 
 
 H. L. Watson "Watty" has been at work steadily on the con- 
 tinuation of the electrification of the N. Y., N. 
 II.&H. R. R., of all tracks west of New Haven. The follow- 
 ing letter gives the details of his vacation and is of interest upon 
 the question of "military preparedness." It's dated, New Ha- 
 ven, Oct. 17, 1915: 
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Dear George: — This spring the U. S. Gov. notified the state of 
 N. Y. that a school of instruction for the signal corps would be held 
 at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., from June 5 to June 15th and asked for 
 a detail of an officer and three non-commissioned officers from my 
 company and the same from "B" company in Brooklyn. I was luckily 
 named as one of the detail to be sent. We left on the night of June 
 2nd and reached the Fort at noon on June 4th. We had lectures on 
 all kinds of subjects pertaining to the work, instruction in cavalry 
 tactics and drills with Co. A signal corps of the regular army. Dur- 
 ing these drills we watched the others for a while and then the national 
 guard students replaced men of corresponding rank and drilled with 
 the company. 
 
 Throughout the trip I enjoyed myself and got a lot of useful 
 knowledge. We all went out via Pittsburg, Indianapolis and St. Louis, 
 but on the return I left the others and came back through Chicago. 
 I got to Chicago the day the car strike was settled. I reached there 
 at about 9 a. m. and it was the deadest place you can imagine with not 
 a surface car or elevated train running. By eleven a. m. the elevated 
 trains began running and by mid-afternoon all surface cars were out. 
 I got back to New York June 19th at 7 a. m. and took the first train 
 to New Haven. 
 
 As soon as I got back I started "cramming" for exams for promo- 
 tion. The exams took place on June 30th and July 8th, a total of 8^2 
 hours. My commission as 1st lieutenant was issued July 10th and on 
 July 17th our company left for the state camp at Fishkill Plains, N. Y. 
 There we had 8 days of fine instruction and experience. 
 
 One day, while halted from riding a moment, a number of motor 
 cycle messengers passed by us pushing their machines. One of them 
 reached over and gave my leg a yank and looking down at him closely 
 I was much surprised to see "Ikey" Leavitt in the uniform of the 7th 
 N. Y. infantry. He is living in N. Y. and has been a member of the 
 7th for over 2 years. After getting back to camp, I had a chance for 
 a short talk with him as his regiment was camped only across the road 
 from my company. I afterwards saw "Ikey's" name on the list of the 
 7th regiment rifle team for the competitors at Sea Girt, N. J. This 
 team won several matches and I saw that Ikey won an individual 
 match so you see he must be some shot. 
 
 You ask some very pat questions regarding the Plattsburg camp, 
 but I am forbidden by regulations to discuss it as I should like to. I 
 believe that camps of this kind cannot be held too often or attended 
 by too many of the citizens of the country. The experience of even 
 one month of training will overcome the shock of the change from the 
 ordinary conditions of life and will teach a man how to take care of 
 himself for the benefit of himself and the others around him. The man 
 will also get an idea of the ways of carrying out drills, trench work 
 and also a line on the different branches of the service. While these 
 
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things cannot make an officer in one month still they would go a long 
 way toward making clear much of the information contained in the 
 various drill manuals. In case volunteer service became necessary a 
 candidate for official position who has attended camps could take his 
 books and together with his experience could much more quickly make 
 himself qualified to hold a position as an officer and, what is more im- 
 portant, properly look after the welfare of his men. 
 
 A man should not allow himself to be satisfied with attendance 
 for one season only, but should attend at least one and if possible two 
 more seasons and should study well the numerous drill regulations, 
 field service regulations, manuals of subsistence and supply and trans- 
 portation in order that his men may be properly clothed, fed and kept 
 in good condition and ready for action. — Yours sincerely, — H. L. Wat- 
 son. 
 
 T. T. Whittier Tommy says he has plugged at it for fifty 
 
 weeks and drawn his salary. We might say 
 he has travelled at it, too, for his paper mill engineering work 
 has taken him several times to Minneapolis, several times to 
 Maine, a few times to Wisconsin, and also to Ottawa in Octo- 
 ber. On one of his western trips he ran into "Cush" in Chicago 
 by chance. For a vacation he motored up through the White 
 Mts. in June, going by the way of Hanover and got from Dave 
 the points of direction to be followed farther up. For a sum- 
 mer home he hires a bungalow at Mattituck Point, Long Island, 
 but it doesn't see so much of him personally as the mere fact 
 suggests. He saw Greenwood one June day in Hartford and 
 Sam Smith and Wardle looked him up in New York. 
 
 A. D. Wiggin "Wig's" worked like all the time. Be- 
 sides teaching he "researched" 130 acres of 
 wheat into the bosom of mother earth. He made some extem- 
 poraneous talks during the year, but he doesn't think them to 
 have been of much account. For a vacation he just worked 
 some more. His travels have been purely local. When you 
 consider that he is president of Simms Commercial Club, also 
 president of the local Telephone Co., you see at once that he 
 wouldn't have the time for such amenities of life. He reports 
 having "three summer homes and that they are doing him" 
 though he doesn't specify how. Jordan and Tootell he has 
 
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seen, he knows that Oakes is married and he says that Lewis 
 '97 is raising some smoke out in his region, both literally and 
 figuratively. 
 
 H. R. Willard "Tony" attended to his professional work, 
 
 "that's all." Last spring he wrote a chapter 
 on mathematics to be included in a handbook for highway engi- 
 neers. His travels have been principally to Old Town and 
 Bangor. During the summer he went to White River Jet. and 
 St. Johnsbury, Vt., by Boston. For a vacation he taught in 
 summer school and later spent a month at Southwest Harbor, 
 Me. Tony is a member of the Orono Democratic Town com- 
 mittee. 
 
 P.H.Winchester Pete writes October 3, 1915: 
 
 "This year has been about the same as last, so 
 far as business has been concerned, and Kendall can doubtless bear 
 me out when I say that I have done all 1 could with mighty little to 
 do it with. We have, however, built a few passing track extensions, 
 renewed a few bridges that time and the elements had been a little too 
 harsh with, built a new stock yard at one of our points nearest Canada 
 so that the dear Canadian cattle could be given needed rest and shelter 
 as they first should reach our hospitable shores, and in general have 
 tried to keep the property in shape to be able to handle the business 
 when the long prophesied good times return, without in the meantime 
 spending so much as to put the good old N. Y. C. into the hands of 
 a receiver. 
 
 No books, essays, etc. Hold on, though it was more than a year 
 ago, I did give several spiels on what I saw of the Panama Canal when 
 I was there in January, 1913, and at least several people listened to me, 
 or at least looked at the stereopticon pictures. But nobody saw fit to 
 publish my "lecture." The only way I now have of getting my name 
 in even the local papers is by going out on the Road to make an in- 
 spection, when they generally manage to get hold of it at least about 
 every other time. 
 
 My only travels are when I manage to get a few days' vacation 
 which isn't so very often, but I have succeeded in getting by automo- 
 bile as far away from Watertown as Auburn, N. Y., in the one direc- 
 tion, and as far as Big Moose in the Adirondacks in the other direction. 
 We also managed to purloin about a week's time the present summer 
 for a little rough-it trip to Lock's Mills, Me., where we spent a very 
 pleasant time at my father's camp. New York is all right for its see- 
 
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nery, but good old Maine still comes in for a good bit of praise, for 
 it is certainly a very beautiful country about the little chain of lakes 
 in the vicinity of Lock's Mills. You see I haven't lost all my pride 
 in my native state, even though I have spent some 15 years out York 
 State way. The nearest I came to seeing the fairs at San Diego or at 
 Frisco was by attending Howe's Travellogues, which, in case you are 
 not up on such matters, I would advise are a species of the moving 
 picture variety of entertainments, these particular ones coming to the 
 local "opery" house twice a year. You can thus see both these fairs 
 for a very nominal fee, depending on where you wish to sit. I have 
 not been to Hanover since the never-to-be-forgotten Quindecennial of 
 the Class of '99. Cannot strictly classify as any of the officials men- 
 tioned under question 14, though I might possibly get in under the 
 wire on the hog-reeve matter from the number of stock yards the 
 M. of W. men had to clean out and disinfect as a result of the several 
 quarantines that have been placed throughout this territory in course 
 of the past years. None of the honors mentioned have been heaped 
 upon my humble head. The nearest approach to it was when our 
 barn was designated for the fall primaries, where two votes were cast, 
 though not for me, for the Democrats, Socialists, etc., were supposed 
 to be there. 
 
 Warren Kendall is the only member of the class I have seen since 
 the fall of 1914, to the best of my knowledge and belief, having seen 
 him in his office in Boston on August 28, 1915, when on my way to 
 Lock's Mills, Me. I was looking for him. Having been so out of 
 intimate touch with the other members of the class, I can give no news 
 concerning them. The same is true of the members of the other classes 
 mentioned. I have hopes of getting to Buffalo some time the present 
 month and am going to make a serious effort to call on Herb Collar 
 whose address Kendall gave me when I saw him in Boston. 
 
 E. L. Woodman Leon says of his year's work, "Nothing new 
 
 or alarming" and "too much reading to find 
 time for research work. Am directing research work of a grad- 
 uate student instead." He made a short trip visiting schools at 
 Brewer, Ellsworth and Blue Hills, Me. For a vacation he sent 
 his wife and children to New York State and then enlarged 
 the house by raising the roof. He is attending one of Willard's 
 courses this semester. As the students express it, "Willard is 
 a great teacher, but awfully sarcastic at times." 
 
 W. C. Woodward "Bones" characterizes his year of professional 
 
 activities thus: "Kept the wolf from the gar- 
 age." That is going some. He is now President of the Seat- 
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tie Surgical Society. For a summer place he owns a half acre 
 on an island in Puget Sound and for a vacation camped on San 
 Juan Islands, the Thousand Islands of the Northwest. Occa- 
 sionally he sees Place '00, who is practicing law in Seattle. 
 Bones has changed his residence from 1227 10th Ave. West to 
 724 17th Ave. North, thereby getting a different point of com- 
 pass. 
 
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