HARVARD TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. There was a large attendance at the fifth annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association, held at the University on March 7. President A. L. Goodrich, principal of the Salem High School, presided at the general meeting and also at the annual dinner, which took place at the Colonial Club, as usual, immediately after the general meeting. One hundred and one members of the Association and their guests were present at the dinner. The addresses and principal discussions presented at the annual meeting were published entire in the May number of the Educational Review. They deal with a topic that is just now receiving a good deal of attention among college and secondary school men in the Eastern and Middle States, namely, "A wider range of electives in college admission requirements." The meeting was another recognition of the desirability, daily becoming more obvious, of promoting any good plan for the articulation of the school and the college. President Eliot's suggestion concerning the desirability of establishing a Board of Examiners representing a group of leading colleges, opens an interesting new field for the coöperation which has lately come to be so important a means of dealing with educational questions. The Association expressed its general approval of the plan by a unanimous vote. The annual dinner was this year an unusually pleasant and profitable occasion. The after-dinner speakers continued the discussion of the general topic. In accordance with the established custom of the Association, one of the speakers was a layman - Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell, '77, of Boston. Mr. Lowell maintained a conservative but suggestive attitude towards the question under consideration. Professor Shaler was the other principal speaker, and dwelt especially on the significance of the Association among the means of bringing about that closer union between the upper and the lower parts of our educational system which Harvard University is in various ways endeavoring to promote. The officers for the ensuing year are R. G. Huling, Cambridge, pres.; J. A. Tufts, Exeter, N. H., vice-pres.; P. H. Hanus, Cambridge, sec.; O. B. Oakman, South Braintree, treas. Councilors-1901, D. W. Abercrombie, Worcester; 1900, C. H. Morss, Medford; 1899, J. Y. Bergen, Cambridge; 1898, N. S. Shaler, Cambridge; 1897, D. S. Sanford, Brookline. Paul H. Hanus, Sec. MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. The annual meeting of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association will be on Tuesday, June 23, 1896, at the Harvard Medical School, corner of Boylston and Exeter streets, Boston, at noon. The annual dinner will be as heretofore at the Vendome at 1 P. M. on the same day. Dinner tickets at $2 a plate for sale at the hotel office on the day of the meeting. Members will confer a favor by promptly notifying the Secretary of any change of address. Augustus Thorndike, '84, Sec. ODONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY, The eighteenth annual meeting of the Association was held at Young's Hotel, Boston, on Feb. 29, and observed as "Ladies' Night." About 50 persons were present. The following officers were elected for the ensuing come prepared to take action on this important matter. At noon the literary exercises will take place in Sanders Theatre. The oration will be given by Mr. George S. Morison, '63. There will be no poem. After the exercises in the Theatre, dinner will be served as usual in Massachusetts Hall. Wm. C. Lane, '81, Cor. Sec. NEWS FROM THE CLASSES. 1831. year: President, W. E. Boardman, this year, and members are asked to d '86; recording secretary, J. T. Paul, d '91; corresponding secretary, E. B. Hitchcock, d '77; treasurer, D. M. Clapp, d '82; editor, H. L. Upham, d '86; executive committee, the Recording Secretary, chairman, F. T. Taylor, d '90, W. P. Cooke, d '81; orator for 1897, E. C. Briggs, d '78. The guests at the dinner were Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Prof. F. G. Peabody, '69; Gen. A. P. Martin, chairman of the Boston Board of Police Commissioners, and the Rev. W. E. Huntington, dean of Boston University, all of whom spoke. E. S. Niles, d '79, was the orator of the evening. At the March meeting of the Society W. H. Ruddick, m '68, read a paper on "Skin Diseases, their Relation to Dentistry;" P. W. Davis, '93, gave a talk on "Electricity in Dentistry." In the afternoon H. W. Gillett, d '85, of Newport, R. I., gave a clinic before the Society. At the April meeting, S. J. Mixter, m '79, talked on "Modern Methods of Cocaine Anaesthesia." W. L. Smith, S. B., instructor in Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Technology, spoke on the "Röntgen Rays," illustrating the talk with photographs. Joseph T. Paul, d '91, Sec. PHI BETA KAPPA. The Society meets this year on June 25, the day after Commencement. The officers of the Society remain the same as last year, President, the Hon. James C. Carter, '50, of New York, and Vice-President, Governor Roger Wolcott, '70. The business meeting is held in Harvard Hall at 10 A. M. The question of enlarging the membership of the Society from each class, the discussion of which was postponed last June, will be brought up again The Rev. John Hopkins Morison, Secretary of the Class, died in Boston April 26, 1896. He was born in Peterborough, N. H., July 25, 1808, of pure Scotch-Irish stock. His parents were Nathaniel, and Mary Ann (Hopkins) Morison; the former being descended from the first settlers of Peterborough, and the latter from those of that portion of Londonderry, N. H., which later became Windham. He was the second child and oldest son of a family of seven children. He began attending school at the age of three, but when he was six his services on the farm became valuable, and from that time till he was sixteen he attended school only in the winter from eight to twelve weeks a year. His father was a man of more than ordinary ability, who needed larger opportunities than a farmer's life offered. He entered upon various undertakings which took him at different times to the South. He made a contract with some capitalists of Natchez, Miss., to supply that city with water. To obtain means to carry out this contract he mortgaged his property heavily. On his return from Peterborough to Natchez, in 1818, with men and materials for the work, he found the contract repudiated. In his disappointment and anxiety he fell a victim to yellow fever, and died in Natchez, Sept. 11, 1819. The family was then reduced from comfortable circumstances to poverty. For the following four years, beginning when he was eleven years old, the oldest son worked for different farmers in the town. In the evenings he was able to read, which he often did by firelight only. In 1824 he went to Exeter, N. H., and was employed in a store for ten months. Richard Hildreth, '26, who taught an evening school which he then attended, recognized his scholarly tastes, and the way was made possible for him to attend Phillips Exeter Academy. After four years there, the last year chiefly as teacher, he entered Harvard College in 1829 as a Junior, graduating in 1831. Both winters that he was in college he taught school. He was the first Morison to graduate here, but through his influence and help, three of his four brothers followed him. The seven other Morisons who have graduated here are sons of these four brothers. In 1858 he received from Harvard the honorary degree of D. D. Upon graduation he at first expected to study law, but a change of plan gave him more time to consider the matter. For a while he taught a few boys in Cambridge, and in the winter attended some exercises in the Divinity School. From March, 1832, to March, 1833, he taught a girls' school in New Bedford. In August, 1833, he entered the Divinity School as a member of the Middle Class. In addition to his work in the School, he devoted a great deal of time to the study of political economy, which he taught to the Senior Class in the College. In the following spring he was taken down with typhoid fever, and this was followed by brain fever and a long illness, the effects of which impaired his strength for the greater part of his active life. On May 24, 1838, he was ordained, and installed with Ephraim Peabody, t '30, as pastor of the First Congregational Society of New Bedford. The relation of these two young men, both in poor health, as pastors together of one church, was an unusual and singularly happy one. He left New Bedford in September, 1843, though he was nominally pastor of the church for some time longer. He then spent two years in Salem. Jan. 28, 1846, he was installed as pastor of the First Congregational Parish of Milton. He remained pastor of this church till April, 1885, though for most of the time after 1870 with a colleague. At the time of his death he was pastor emeritus. In 1877 he gave up his home in Milton, and after that spent his winters in Boston and his summers in Peterborough. For fifteen months beginning with April, 1846, he was sole editor of the Christian Register, and from October, 1849, through the year 1851, he was editor of it with others. He edited the Religious Magazine from January, 1871, through February, 1874; and of its successor, the Unitarian Review, he was one of two editors from January, 1875, through December, 1879. He wrote a memoir of his pupil, Robert Swain, privately printed in 1846 and published in 1847. His chief works were: "Life of the Hon. Jeremiah Smith, LL. D." (Boston, 1845); Disquisitions and Notes on the Gospels: Matthew" (Boston, 1860); "The Great Poets as Religious Teachers" (New York, 1886). He had given much time to the continuation of his work on the Gospels, especially to the Gospel of John, but he never brought it to a condition in which he was willing to publish it. There are many pamphlets from his pen, among which may be mentioned the address delivered at the centennial celebration in Peterborough, N. H., 1839, and two sermons suggested by the centennial celebration in Milton, 1862. He also edited a book made up from the writings of Dr. Ephraim Peabody under the title, "Christian Days and Thoughts (Boston, 1858). He married, Oct. 21, 1841, Emily Hurd Rogers, posthumous daughter of Abner Rogers, H. U. 1800, and step-daughter of the Hon. Daniel A. White, H. U. 1797, of Salem. Of this marriage there were three children, George S., '63, Robert S., '69, and Mary. His strength had yielded but slightly to his age, and his mental powers were unimpaired, when on March 7, 1896, he suffered an apo plectic shock. For a few weeks he seemed to be gaining; then a gradual failing began; and he died in Boston on April 26. His was the first death in a family circle which had existed for over fifty-four years. The funeral services were in his Milton church. 1840. JOHN CAPEN, Sec. 5 Worcester Sq., Boston. William Goodwin Russell died on Feb. 6. He was born in Plymouth in 1821, graduated from the College in 1840, kept for a time the Academy at Dracut, and graduated from the Law School in 1845. He at once joined his brother-in-law, William Whiting, already a brilliant and successful lawyer, and entered into a full and active practice which he pursued with great diligence and high distinction for more than fifty years. In 1847 he married Mary Ellen Hedge of Plymouth, who died in 1886. He leaves a son, Thomas, '79, and two daughters surviving him. Mr. Russell wrote no thing for publication, seldom spoke on any public occasion, took no active part in public life, and held no public office, although the highest judicial station was pressed upon him in his closing years. He was, however, for many years (1869-81, 1882-94) a member of the Board of Overseers of the College, attending its meetings with great regularity and taking a leading part in all of its important debates. He cherished throughout his career a lofty ideal of his duties as a lawyer, and he devoted himself with a single mind and most conscientious industry to their performance. His great intellectual gifts, his enormous powers of dispatching work, and his solid qualities of character enabled him to reach a rare eminence in all the important branches of his profession and to command the confidence and respect of the entire community. His amiable personal qualities won him also the warm affection of all who had the good fortune to be thrown into closer relations with him. His place at the bar is not likely soon to be filled. -G. P. 1841. DR. FRANCIS MINOT, Sec. 65 Marlborough St., Boston. Col. T. W. Higginson has given the Boston Public Library a collection of 1,000 books relating to woman. 1844. EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Sec. 22 Chestnut St., Boston. Dr. Daniel Denison Slade, died at Newton, Feb. 12, 1896. He was born in Boston, May 10, 1823, and was the son of J. T. Slade, who at that time was prominent as a merchant in the city. He attended Boston primary schools in 1833, when he was placed under the care of the Hon. S. M. Weld, 26, of Jamaica Plain. Thence he went to a family school kept by the Rev. Ezra Ripley, 1776, of Waltham. In 1835 he was sent to Northboro, where he remained two years under the tutelage of the Rev. Joseph Allen, '11. Returning, he prepared for Harvard at the Boston Latin School and entered Harvard in 1840. He belonged to many college societies; he took the prize for the best Latin poem, and was president of the Harvard Natural History Society. After graduating he entered the Medical School and took his degree in '48, when he was appointed house surgeon of the Massachusetts General Hospital. In the autumn of 1849 he went to Europe to study his profession, returning in 1852. In 1863 he moved to Chestnut Hill, and from that time on he gradually relinquished the practice of medicine for literary and horticultural pursuits. He contributed many articles to agricultural and horticultural publications as well as to the medical journals. In 1870 he was appointed professor of Applied Zoology. "Six Weeks in the Saddle" is perhaps the best known of his works. His latest publication was "Evolution of Horticulture in New England." 1847. 1854; he lectured on Demonstrative Anatomy in the Medical School in 1854; he became surgeon of Boston Dispensary in 1856; he published "Practical Dissections," and in 1861 "Excision of Joints." He was visiting surgeon of the Massachusetts General Hospital from 1863 till 1886. He was elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1867; and was adjunct professor of Surgery, 1866 to 1872; Overseer of Harvard University, 1882 to 1890. He delivered the Annual Address before the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1886, was appointed consulting surgeon of the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1887; published in 1891 "A Narrative of Events connected with the Introduction of Sulphuric Ether into Surgical Use," withdrew from practice in 1891, went to Europe, returned in 1892, and thereafter lived quietly in Boston and Nahant. His life was a most useful one; he had the general esteem and respect of the community, and many of his patients and friends hold him in most affectionate remembrance. Appropriate resolutions were passed at a meeting of the Medical Board of the Massachusetts General Hospital soon after his death. — John Glenn, of Baltimore, the blind benefactor of many poor people, and the active promoter JUDGE CHARLES ALLEN, Acting Sec. of charities in Maryland, died in Balti The Berkeley, Boston. Dr. Richard Manning Hodges died in Boston, Feb. 9, 1896. He was born Nov. 6, 1827. After receiving his degree of M. D. in 1850, he studied two years in Europe, and began practice in Boston in Jan., 1853, being assisted at the outset by his lifelong friend the late Dr. H. J. Bigelow, '37. He was demonstrator of Anatomy at the Medical School from 1853 till 1861; physician of City Cholera Hospital in more on March 30. He was the son of Judge Glenn, and was 67 in February; he graduated at Harvard in 1847, and, while studying law, in 1850, suddenly became blind. In the civil war he took sides with the South, but not actively, and was imprisoned by the national authorities; after the war he engaged in business, and has long been identified with the social life and the charities of Baltimore. He married in Philadelphia, and leaves two chil |