ton Dexter, G. H. Adams, S. L. Parrish, T. B. Ticknor, B. B. Sherman, W. T. Winsor, C. C. Sheldon, R. F. Holway, Franklin Nourse, F. H. Viaux, B. M. Watson, Jr., J. R. Rich, Godfrey Morse, Dr. T. M. Rotch, W. T. Perrin, J. F. Dwight, C. H. Walcott, Judge G. S. Littlefield, and F. T. Fuller. At the first annual meeting of the National Municipal League, held at Cleveland, O., in May, C. B. Wilby spoke on the municipal condition of Cincinnati, O.-Prof. W. G. Hale goes to Rome, Italy, this autumn, to take charge of the American School of Archaeology to be established there. -J. B. N. Wyatt is the architect of the new court-house in Baltimore, Md. - Dr. H. J. Groesbeck is president of the Ohio Silver League, devoted to silver propaganda.

1871.

A. M. BARNES, Sec.

38 Central St., Boston. The usual Commencement gathering was held at Holworthy 12, and 38 members were present during the day. At the business meeting tributes of respect to the memory of Arthur Rotch and of Winslow were read and adopted, and action on the death of Comstock was referred to a special committee. It was voted to procure and present to the Class Grandchild, the granddaughter of Henry Cabot Lodge, a suitable testimonial in recognition of the unusual distinction of having a child of the Class Baby as the first grandchild of the Class, and a special committee was appointed to carry out the wishes of the meeting. The Class Committee and the Secretary were given full power to arrange for the proper observance of the 25th anniversary of graduation in 1896, and were instructed to make it a

A. L. LINCOLN, JR., Sec.

18 Post Office Square, Boston. The Class met as usual at Thayer 3 on Commencement. F. H. Sawyer was present from San Francisco, and L. L. Hubbard from Houghton, Mich. The Secretary read his reports for the past year and a memorial of John F. Andrew, which the Class voted to The place upon the Class records. death of the Class Baby, George Cowing Gibson, on May 1, was reported, and the Secretary was requested to prepare a minute for the Class records expressing the deep interest which the Class had felt for its first-born, and of our sympathy with Gibson and his family. The annual dinner was given at the University Club Commencement evening, at which 24 members were present, Arthur Mills presiding. A special subject was discussed, of which the Class will be further informed later.

- Amongst other items the Secretary reported the following: Frank Hasbrouck has been appointed postmaster at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. —Arthur Lord was chosen president of the Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, at its annual meeting May 27.-C. Tower, Jr., received the degree of LL. D. from Lafayette College at its Commencement in 1894.

A. Andrew, the "War Governor" of Massachusetts. He fitted for college at a private school at Boston, and after graduation passed a year traveling in Europe, and then entered the Law School, where he remained two years, graduating in 1875. He was admitted to the Bar in 1875, and began practice in Boston; but he soon found it unsuited to his taste. His inclinations led him towards political life, which he began in 1880 as a member of the legislature. In party he was a Republican, and as such he was elected and served three successive terms as a member of the lower house, and one term as State senator. In his election by the Republicans as State senator, in 1884, his majority was the largest ever received by any candidate in the district. While in the legislature, he served as member of the Judiciary Committee, and was chairman of the Senate Committee on Street Railways. He never became an effective public speaker, but he was always bright and quick in debate, direct and honest of speech, intolerant of humbug and hypocrisy, and never could support men or measures unless he thoroughly believed in them and could state honestly and frankly the grounds of his belief. These qualities soon gained for him the respect of his colleagues and gave him power and influence in the legislature, and especially in the committees of which he was a member. Republican, his future career and success were assured. While Republican State senator, he was chosen a delegate to the Chicago Convention, which nominated Blaine for President, and he strenuously opposed Blaine's nomination. After the nomination of Cleveland by the Democrats, he declared for the Democratic candidate. This

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alienated his Republican supporters, and every one supposed, himself included, that it involved the sacrifice of his political career. It certainly involved severing his relations with the party with which he had always been associated and with which his father had been so actively identified. His honest independence of judgment in this matter, and the motives that led him to sacrifice his personal ambition and his sentiment to his sense of duty, deserved and won for him respect independent of party. In 1884 he was nominated by the Independents and Democrats as State senator, and elected. In 1886 he was the Democratic candidate for governor, being defeated by Oliver Ames by a very close vote. In 1887 he declined a renomination for governor. In 1888, and again in 1890, he was elected to Congress by the Democrats, and during his two terms of service he devoted himself principally to the three important questions of tariff reform, civil service reform, and sound money. On many questions, such as the Chinese Exclusion bill and the Antioption bill, he voted in opposition to the majority of his party, showing the independence which always characterized him. He believed thoroughly in civil service reform, not as a mere theory, but as a matter of practical importance. Although he opposed Crisp for speaker, he was appointed by him chairman of the Select Committee on Reform in the Civil Service. Under his leadership, the committee prepared and submitted two of the strongest, most important, and elaborate reports on the extension of the civil service reform system. Of the work of this committee, while he was chairman, Roosevelt, then one of the Civil Service Commissioners, said, “the friends

of civil service reform without distinction of party are to be congratulated upon having such a committee in the House, and especially upon having such a chairman as Mr. Andrew." He gave much time and thought to all questions relating to reform in the tariff, but his greatest efforts were made for sound money. He was largely influential in preventing the passage of the bill for the free coinage of silver, and one of his colleagues in Congress says that he was the only member of Congress who is known to have made converts and won votes from the opposition on that question. He was appointed, in 1885, a member of the Board of Park Commissioners of the city of Boston, and served for three years, and was again appointed in 1895. At the time of his death he was chairman of the Board. To his good taste much of the success of the Park system is due. He was at one time a director of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and president of the Algonquin Club in Boston, from its organization. He was interested in charitable work, and was a frequent giver to good objects. He was for some time president of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum, and at the time of his death was president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and of the Home for Aged Colored Women, and trustee of the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded. He married, Oct. 11, 1883, Harriet, daughter of Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston. She died in September, 1891, leaving two daughters, Cornelia T. and Elizabeth.-E. W. H.

1873.

ARTHUR L. WARE, Sec.

Milton.

At the annual meeting on Com

mencement the Class passed a vote to have a dinner annually on the evening before Commencement. In accordance with this vote the Class will dine at the University Club in Boston on the evening of Tuesday, June 23, 1896.

Robert Grant was elected Overseer at Commencement.-Prof. S. M. Macvane has received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from Acadia University, Nova Scotia.

1874.

GEORGE P. SANGER, Sec.

940 Exchange Building, Boston. The Class reunion on Commencement Day was held as usual in Holworthy 4. At the business meeting there were no matters of importance to be acted upon, except to hear from the Secretary a statement, in writing, of the Class finances, which was accepted and placed on file.

1875.

WARREN A. REED, Sec.

Brockton.

Alpheus Brown Alger died at his home in North Cambridge, on May 3, of rheumatic fever. After leaving college he studied law in the office of the late J. G. Abbott, '32, of Boston, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1877. He was a member of the Democratic State Committee from 1884 to 1890, and its Secretary from 1886 to 1890. He was a member of the Cambridge Board of Aldermen in 1884, and in 1886 and 1887 was senator from the Third Middlesex District. In 1890 he was elected mayor of Cambridge and served a second term in 1891. was chairman of the Board of the Harvard Bridge Commissioners in 1891 and 1892, and a member of the Charles River Embankment Co. He was a member of the order of Masons,

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of the Odd Fellows, of the Knights of Pythias, and several other social clubs. Alger was never married, but since graduation made his home with his sisters in Cambridge. Ex-Mayor Nathan Matthews, Jr., has a law office at 23 Court St., Boston, and gives special attention to Municipal Law.Dr. J. W. Fewkes has been conducting an archaeological expedition in Arizona for the Smithsonian Institution. – The Rev. Richard Montague, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Newton Centre, died in that city on July 24. He was born in Westboro, July 4, 1853. He graduated from Harvard in 1875, spent a year at the Divinity School, and then entered the Newton Theological Institution, from which he graduated in 1879. The following October he was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lawrence. In Sept., 1881, he became pastor of the Central Baptist Church in Providence, R. I., where he remained till 1886, when, on account of a very serious illness, he was compelled to resign and seek the benefits of Colorado's climate. From October, 1887, till November, 1893, he had a parish at Colorado Springs, then he accepted a call to Newton Centre. He was a University Preacher at Harvard in 1886. One small volume of his sermons has been published and another is in the press. He received the degree of S. T. D. from the University of Colorado in 1891. He married in 1880 Martha Peasely Cogswell, who died in 1890.

1876.

COL. W. L. CHASE, Sec.

233 State St., Boston. "The annual report of the Boston city architect has a special interest, as being the last which will be issued," says the Boston Herald. "With the

abolition of the department, Mr. E. M. Wheelwright closes the record most creditably. Not only has he effected remarkable economies by his business - like administration since May 1, 1891, the architectural work of the city has cost $85,895.93, as against $160,226.67, the cost at the customary rate of charges if it had been done by private architects; a saving of $74,330.84 in three years and nine months — but the artistic quality of Mr. Wheelwright's designs has been so high as to give Boston an enviable rank among American municipalities for its recent civic architecture. Mr. Wheelwright's work has been remarkably versatile in character-always well adapted to its purpose, graceful and refined, and never ostentatious pleasing by its thoughtful and scholarly character, its sensible simplicity, its admirable proportions of mass and the elegance of detail."— A celebration in honor of J. H. Flint, recently elected grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, was held by that order at Weymouth.

1877.

JOHN F. TYLER, Sec.

5 Tremont St., Boston. The Class dined at the Parker House the night before Commencement, and in the absence of W. E. Russell, who was expected to preside, the Secretary occupied the chair. Fifty-seven men were present. H. M. Burr responded for "The Class of '77," A. M. Sherwood for "Alma Mater," 'Squire A. O. Fuller for "The Coming Lawyer," Dist. Atty. R. O. Harris for "Crime," R. S. Sauzade for "Why New Jersey is greater than New York," H. B. McDowell for "The Stage," W. S. Seamans for "The Harvard Club in New York," and S. Butler and B. J. Legate