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recently transferred to corresponding secretary by virtue of having removed to Berlin, Germany, and associating himself with Dr. Charles H. Abbot at 14 Voss Strasse. - At Council meeting, Oct. 14, the following committee on Necrology was appointed: C. H. Taft, d '86, chairman, F. S. Hopkins, d '89, and N. P. Wyllie, d '92. — On June 5, at its 31st annual meeting, the Mass. Dental Society elected Waldo E. Boardman, d '86, of Boston, first vice-president; Edward Page, d '69, of Charlestown, treasurer for the 24th consecutive year, and J. T. Paul, d '91, of Boston, editor for the ensuing Last January E. B. Hitchcock, d '77, Newton, and H. L. Upham, d '86, Boston, were elected councilors by the North Metropolitan District Dental Society to the Mass. Dental Society for two and four years respectively. In February, W. E. Boardman, d '86, Boston, and D. M. Clapp, d '82, Boston, were respectively for two and four years elected councilors by the South Metropolitan District Dental Society to the Mass. Dental Society. In January, H. P. Cooke, d '84, Worcester, was elected secretary of the Central District Dental Society. Wm. F. Sharp, d '91, San Francisco, Cal., a corresponding secretary, has recently been appointed professor of Mechanical Dentistry, Dental Department, University of California. -On Oct. 16, Eugene H. Smith, d '74, Boston, was confirmed by the Board of Overseers as professor of Mechanical Dentistry, at the Harvard Dental School, vice Dr. T. H. Chandler, deceased. — The names and addresses of the graduates of 1895 are as follows: Ernst S. Arvedson, Hotel Pelham, Boston; Edward D. Barrows, 14 Voss Strasse, Berlin, Germany; Clarence A. Carr, 129 Spring

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St., Newport, R. I.; Walter S. Coleman, 491 Congress St., Portland, Maine; Dwight W. Dickinson, Boston; Percy Edgelow, London, England; James A. Furfey, 235 Marlborough St., Boston; Marquis Littig, Davenport, Ia.; Frederick E. Meader, 264 Boylston St., Boston; Arthur H. Woodcock, 2 Park Square, Boston; Richard D. Milliken, Saco, Me.; Robert T. Moffatt, Boston; Henry C. O'Brien, 72 Commonwealth Ave., Boston; Patrick H. O'Connor, Marysville, Cal.; Francis W. Rice, Brunswick, Maine; Leopold Scheuermann, 2 Potsdamestrasse, Berlin, Germany.

Waldo E. Boardman, d '86, Sec.

HARVARD ODONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

The following active members have recently been elected: George R. Gray, d '93, Worcester; Allen S. Burnham, d '92, Gloucester; Frank R. Dickerman, d '93, Taunton. — The Society now has an active membership of 47, with 13 corresponding members, making a total of 60.— The following active members were recently elected councilors to represent their respective district societies in the Mass. Dental Society at the annual meetings: North Metropolitan District Dental Society: E. B. Hitchcock, d '77, elected for two years; Henry L. Upham, d '86, Boston, elected for four years. South Metropolitan District Dental Society: W. E. Boardman, d '86, Boston, elected for two years; D. M. Clapp, d '82, Boston, elected for four years.

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professor of Mechanical Dentistry in summer. At a recent meeting of the the Harvard Dental School. At a meeting of the Society at Young's Hotel, Oct. 31, papers were read as follows: by Dr. Charles G. Cumston, of Boston, editor of the Annals of Gynaecology and Paediatry, on "Some Clinical Considerations on infectious Gingivites;" by E. C. Blaisdell, d '83, of Portsmouth, N. H., on "The Function of a Dentist."

Waldo E. Boardman, d '86, Rec. Sec.

HARVARD TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of the Summer School Section of the Harvard Teachers' Association occurred at the University on July 31. The topics for discussion were Electives in Secondary Education and The Closer Articulation of Elementary and Secondary Education. Papers were read on these topics as follows: 1. "Are Electives in Secondary Education desirable?" Charles S. Foos, Boys' High School, Reading, Pa.; 2. "At what Stage in Secondary Education may Electives be permitted?" David Taggart Clark, Riverview Academy, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; 3. "Should all Subjects be made Elective? If not, what Subjects?" Charles W. Newhall, Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minn.; 4. "By whom shall the Election of Subjects be determined?" C. E. Biklé, Teachers' College, New York city; 5. "How can the Gap be bridged between the Elementary and the High Schools ?" John A. Dresser, St. Francis College, Richmond, Canada; 6. "Are modifications in Courses of Study and in Teaching more imperative in Secondary than in Elementary Education?" Mary I. Adams, W. Roxbury High School, Boston. About 30 new members joined the Association during the

Councilors it was decided to recommend to the Association the adoption of the motion introduced at the annual meeting last March to admit students, graduates, and officers of Radcliffe College to membership in the Association on the same terms as students, graduates, and officers of the University.

Paul H. Hanus, Sec.

NEWS FROM THE CLASSES.

1826.

Dr. Wm. L. Russell, of Barre, the oldest living graduate, but not the senior alumnus, celebrated his 96th birthday on October 28, by playing a game of whist with a party of friends.

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1828.

Patrick Grant died in Boston, Oct.

He was born in Boston, March 17, 1809, his father being Patrick Grant and his mother Anna Powell Mason, daughter of Jonathan Mason, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Mr. Grant, after graduating from the Boston Latin School, entered Harvard. He delivered a "colloquial disquisition" on Commencement, and then went into business, being for a year or two at Leghorn, in the employ of his uncle, John Grant, of the firm of Bell & Grant, bankers of London, Genoa, and Leghorn. Shortly after his return from Italy, he entered the firm of Wm. B. Reynolds & Co., of which, on the death of Mr. Reynolds, he became senior partner. About 15 years ago he retired from business. In early life he was connected with some of the military organizations of Boston; for many years he was a director of the National City Bank; and until recently he was prominent in the so

cial life of Boston, being at different times president of the Somerset Club and of the Temple Club. He was twice married by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Bryant, of Boston, he had one daughter, Annie Mason Grant, who married Charles Frederick Lyman, '55, and died about ten years ago; by his second wife, Charlotte Bordman Rice, daughter of Henry Gardner Rice, 1802, he had four children, viz.: Robert, '73, Henry Rice, '74, Patrick, '79, and Flora, wife of Morris Gray, '77. Mr. Grant's death leaves but two survivors of the Class of 1828,- the Rev. Charles Babbidge, of Pepperell, and the Rev. J. W. Cross, of West Boylston.

1829.

REV. SAMUEL MAY, Sec.

Leicester.

The Rev. Dr. Samuel F. Smith, on Oct. 21, celebrated his 87th birthday. His Baptist friends took special note of the birthday ; and the day after he was the guest of Howard Seminary at West Bridgewater, where he was "delightfully entertained by the pupils." Twice he addressed them, once on personal topics and his travels in Eastern lands, and again "on the subject of memory," in which he appeared as much interested as any of his hearers could be. Dr. Smith's portrait by Peixotto has been presented to Harvard College. - As the Magazine goes to press, news comes of his death. A biographical sketch will appear later.

1832.

William Cushing, the son of the Hon. Edmund Cushing and of Mary Stearns Cushing, was born in Lunenburg, May 15, 1811. Among his brothers were Judge Edmund Cushing and Luther Cushing, the author of the

famous Manual. After graduating from Harvard College in 1832, for a while he taught school in Fitchburg. Later he went through the Harvard Divinity School, graduating in 1839; was ordained in Calais, Me., and was for many years active in his profession, preaching in Saco, Me., and in Bedford, Mass. In 1843 he formed the first Unitarian Society in Milwaukee, Wis. In the same year he married Margaret Louisa Wiley, who, with several children, survives him. On his return to the East he became assistant in the Harvard Library, and was thus enabled to begin the literary labors that occupied the rest of his life. His latter years were devoted entirely to the preparation and publication of his Index to the North American Review, his Index to the Christian Examiner, his Initials and Pseudonyms and his Anonyms. He died at his home in Cambridge, Aug. 27, 1895.

1836.

F. O. PRINCE, Sec.

54 Devonshire St., Boston.

On Oct. 19 Col. Henry Lee celeebrated his golden wedding. -F. O. Prince has been elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Public Library.-S. B. Cruft is president of the Howard Benevolent Society.

1838.

W. I. BOWDITCH, Sec.

28 State St., Boston. William Wetmore Story, who died suddenly at Vallombrosa, Italy, on Oct. 7, was a grandson of Dr. Elisha Story, who was one of the "Boston tea-party," and subsequently distinguished himself as a surgeon in the Revolutionary army. His father, Joseph Story, H. C. 1798, was a promi

nent politician and one of the most the Beethoven statue in the Boston distinguished jurists of his time, being Music Hall calls attention to his love Dane Professor of Law at Harvard of music, an art in which also his gifts from 1829 to 1845, when he was ap- were conspicuous. In connection with pointed to the U. S. Supreme Court. this fact it is of interest to note W. W. Story was born at Salem, Feb. that his son Julian, the distinguished 12, 1819, was graduated at Harvard painter, married one of the leading in 1838, and at the Law School two opera singers of the time, Emma years later. Being admitted to the Eames. But there was something Essex bar, he devoted himself for ten still stronger in Story's breast than years to the legal profession. That his love of literature and music, and he might have won the very highest that was his devotion to painting and distinction and honors in this field is sculpture, which led him to leave shown by the fact that in this brief America in 1848 and make his home period he wrote several books which thenceforth in Italy. Here he soon are still in use, one of them, "A Trea- acquired fame with the chisel, and his tise on Sales of Personal Property," studio became one of the most popular being in its 6th edition, and another, resorts of native artists and foreign "Contracts Not Under Seal," in its visitors. Mr. Story spoke several lan10th. His "Reports of the Decisions guages fluently, and he cordially welof the Circuit Court of the United comed and entertained all who had any States" fill three volumes. While claims to his consideration. Among these works evince remarkable politi- his most famous portraits, statues, cal and legal talent and insight, there and monuments are those of Justice was in Story's mind a still stronger Story (in the chapel at Mount Aufaculty which gradually asserted itself burn), Chief-Justice Marshall, Edward over his other gifts — namely, his love Everett (in Boston Public Garden), of art in its various manifestations. George Peabody (erected by public He was passionately fond of poetry, subscription in Threadneedle St., Lonmusic, painting, sculpture, and archi- don, 1871), W. C. Bryant, Josiah tecture, and the last forty-five years Quincy (in Sanders Theatre, Camof his life gave evidence of the fact bridge), besides statuettes of Beetthat the question as to which of these hoven, Byron, Shakespeare, busts of J. arts he might most distinguish himself R. Lowell, Theodore Parker, etc. in would depend principally on the Among his ideal statues are two Cleoamount of time and attention he patras, Medea, Electra, Helen, Alcesmight choose to devote to each. tis, Judith, Sappho, Semiramis, Saul, While he was still engaged in the le- Orestes, Sardanapalus, Jerusalem in gal profession, he frequently contrib- her Desolation, Delilah, etc. In these uted articles and poems to various works, he won for himself a place in periodicals. In 1844 he delivered the the foremost rank of modern sculptors. Phi Beta Kappa poem at Harvard on The first Cleopatra statue, exhibited at "Nature and Art." In 1847 he pub- the London Exhibition of 1862, made lished a volume of poems, to which he him the lion of the hour there, and added several other volumes in later had already been praised by Hawyears. The fact that, in 1856, he de- thorne in "The Marble Faun," where livered a poem at the dedication of Story figures as "Kenyon." But al

though Story had established his reputation in sculpture, he did not desert literature. In 1851 he issued "The Life and Letters of Joseph Story;" in 1852, an enlarged edition of his father's miscellaneous works; in 1856, another volume of poems; in 1861, "Roba di Roma; or Walks and Talks about Rome;" among his other works are "The American Question," ," "Proportions of the Human Figure," ," "The Origin of the Italian Language and Pronunciation of Latin;" "He and She, or a Poet's Portfolio ;" "Fiammetta; ""Vallombrosa; ""Conversations in a Studio;" "Graffiti d' Italia;" "Stephanie;" and "Nero," - the last two being dramas. Story received the degree of D. C. L. from Oxford in 1887; he was professor in the Accademia di Sta. Cecilia, Dei Quiriti and Degli Arcadi at Rome; a Fellow of the American Academy; a Corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society; a Chevalier of the Order of Francis I; a Commendatore of the Order of the Crown of Italy, and an officer of the Legion of Honor. For many years his drawing-room in the Barberini Palace, Rome, was the rendezvous of a cosmopolitan gathering of persons eminent in any art or distinguished in any way. In 1877, while on a visit to America, he delivered a course of lectures on art. He last visited this country in 1883. To him, Lowell, his most famous classmate, dedicated "Fireside Travels." Story was married in 1843 to a member of the New England Eldridge family, and in 1893 their golden wedding was celebrated. Mrs. Story died in Rome last year. His daughter was married to Signor Peruzzi, and his sons Waldo and Julian have won distinction in sculpture and painting. — Ed. VOL. IV. NO. 14.

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1842.

A. D. BLANCHARD, Sec.

91 Hillside Ave., Melrose.

W. T. Davis, the historian of Plymouth, returned from England in September. He went abroad to accomplish a mission confided to him by the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, viz.: to mark the spot at Scrooby where the movement that culminated in the voyage of the Mayflower was organized on English soil. A handsome bronze tablet was made bearing the inscription: "This tablet is erected by the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Mass., U. S. A., to mark the site of the ancient manor house where lived William Brewster from 1588 to 1608, and where in 1606 he organized the Pilgrim Church of which he became ruling elder and with which he went in 1608 to Amsterdam, in 1609 to Leyden, and in 1620 to Plymouth, where he died, August 16, 1640." After erecting the tablet, Mr. Davis visited Leyden, where the Pilgrims spent 11 years. - Dr. Benjamin Cushing died on Oct. 16, after a painful illness lasting two years. During the Rebellion he served as volunteer surgeon at Hampton, Va. He graduated from the Medical School in 1846, and for many years practiced his profession at Dorchester.

1846.

C. E. GUILD, Sec.

27 Kilby St., Boston.

Senator G. F. Hoar was confined to the house during October, and thus prevented from taking part in the political campaign. He had previously condemned, in open letters widely published, the methods of the American Protective Association. He was reelected president of the conference of Unitarian churches held at Washington, D. C.

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