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was from one of the Woburn families which settled there in 1640. Wyman received his early education in the Lowell public schools and had no thought of a college education until, after he and his mother had moved to Boston in December, 1865, he met W. E. Fette, Harvard, '58. Wyman's study of Greek for the entrance examination did not begin until November, 1867, but he passed successfully in the fall of 1868. After his mother's death, he was thrown on his own resources, and, with little assistance, worked his way through College by "mental and physical labor," a forecast of the energy and ability he showed throughout his life. He graduated with the idea of studying marine law and of devoting himself to its practice, but, after being for nearly two years in the office of F. B. Dixon, marine adjuster, changed his mind, and for several years afterwards engaged successfully in various business enterprises, amongst others, in that of printers' supplies in Boston. For a time he was auditor of the Denver, Longmont & Northwestern Railroad, with headquarters at Longmont, Col., and from 1882 to 1884 was treasurer of the Boston Woven Hose Company. In 1888 he was elected treasurer of the Wright & Potter Printing Company (the State printers of Massachusetts), was later also manager, and president of the company at the time of his death. He was elected in 1892 a member of the School Committee of Lynn, and was chairman of the Board from 1895 to 1900, when he declined a reëlection. He was a member of the Oxford and Whiting Clubs of Lynn, the Lynn Historical Society, Massachusetts Sons of the American Revolution, and the Boston City Club. For a number of years after 1891 he was secretary of the Master Printers Club of Boston. He was married in September, 1875, at

Lynn to Edith Estelle Merriam of Lynn, who survives him, with three sons, Louis Eliot, '00, LL.B. 1902, Arthur Merriam, A.B. (Dartmouth) 1908, and Arnold Maverick, '10, and a daughter, Edith Louise (now Rolfe), Smith College, 1903. Perry Belmont, who, for more than a year past, has been contributing effective articles to the Seven Seas Magazine and Sea Power, has received a commission as an officer in the Reserve Corps of the Army. He is vice-president of the Navy League, and an active member of its executive committee, and also a vice-president of the Army League.

1873.

ARTHUR L. WARE, Sec.,
Framingham Centre, Mass.

William Thomas was elected a vicepresident of the Harvard Law School Association at Commencement. James Augustus Beatley died at his summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, on July 11. He was born in Chelsea, in 1852, and was educated in the public schools of that city. After his graduation from college he taught for a year at the Boston Latin School, and later went to Europe where he studied the modern languages in preparation for his life-work. For more than forty years he was connected with the English High School in Boston and was, for the greater part of that time, in charge of the German department. He organized an orchestra of about fifty pupils of the school which he conducted with conspicuous success and trained in the rendering of music of a high class. In addition to supplying music for occasions directly connected with the school, the orchestra was frequently called upon for its services at public meetings held by the City of Boston. He is survived by a wife and four children.

1874.

C. S. PENHALLOW, Sec.,
803 Sears Building, Boston,

James Dwight, M.D. '79, died in Mattapoisett, on July 13. - The Class did not have its Commencement dinner, but divided among the funds for the French wounded soldiers, the Red Cross, and the R.O.T.C. the money which would ordinarily have been taken from the Class fund for the dinner. About twenty members of the Class attended a quiet subscription dinner which was held at the Harvard Club of Boston on the night before Commencement; Edmund H. Sears read a poem, and members of the Class who had spent the greater part of their lives in the East spoke on China and Japan.

1875.

WARREN A. REED, Sec.,
Brockton, Mass.

The Class of 1875 dined on Commencement eve at the Boston Harvard Club. Thirty-one members were present. Dr. Morton Prince presided and related his experience in the war. L. B. R. Briggs gave the Commencement address at the University of Oregon. Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch has been elected director of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. - Frederick P. Fish, Chairman of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, gave the Commencement address at Wheaton College, Norton, on June 13. - H. B. Wenzell, reporter of decisions for the Supreme Court of Minnesota, has just completed the 76th volume edited by him since January 1, 1895. - Е. М. Kingsbury has left the editorial staff of the New York Sun, and joined that of the New York Times.

1878.

HENRY WHEELER, Sec., 511 Sears Bldg., Boston. Thirty-three members of the Class

dined together at the Parker House on the evening before Commencement. Dr. Alfred Worcester presided. Informal speeches were made by many of those present. Willis B. Allen read an original poem which has since been printed and sent to the members of the Class. A cablegram was sent to Sir George Perley, setting forth the appreciation of his classmates for his services to the allied cause as High Commissioner of Canada in England. E. J. James, president of Illinois State University, has been appointed a member of the advisory committee on state university war service of the National Association of State Universities. Charles Moore was elected a member of the board of governors of the American Institute of City Planning, which was organized at Kansas City on May 11. He has recently published a History of Michigan. - Dr. William H. Potter is in Europe, serving as dental surgeon with the U.S. Base Hospital No. 5.- Paul Shorey contributes The Assault on Humanism to the June and July numbers of the Atlantic Monthly. It is reprinted as a small book. Henry Osborn Taylor was elected President of the Harvard Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Com

mencement.

1879.

REV. EDWARD HALE, Sec.,

5 Circuit Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

The Class voted almost unanimously to omit its annual dinner, and the estimated cost of the dinner was made a part of the contribution of the Class toward the expenses of the Harvard R.O.T.C. About thirty men met at Holworthy 18 on Commencement Day, and a like number were present for the afternoon speaking. F. J. Swayze was elected to the board of Overseers for a second term. - W. De W. Hyde died at Bruns

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wick, Me., June 29. A sketch of his life is printed elsewhere in this issue of the Magazine. - John Alden Thayer died at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, July 31. Fuller notice will be given in the next issue of the Magazine.

1880.

JOHN WOODBURY, Sec.,
14 Beacon St., Boston.

Robert Bacon is serving in France as Major on the staff of General Pershing.

Dr. C. C. Foster is surgeon, and F. E. Cabot is signal officer, in the division of the Home Guard organized in Boston by the Veterans Association of the First Corps of Cadets. - The Harvard Reserve Officers' Training Corps were encamped in July on the estate of W. A. Gaston in Barre, Mass. Rev. Bradley Gilman has accepted a call to the First Unitarian Church at Palo Alto, Cal., and will take charge of his new parish in November. - Dr. H. W. Kilburn, with his family, is in Europe for an indefinite period. His present address is Hotel Oberland, Interlaken, Switzerland. A. B. Hart, Josiah Quincy, and C. G. Washburn were elected delegates to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention and all three were apppointed chairmen of important committees. An informal dinner of the Class was held at the Union Club in Boston on the evening preceding Commencement Day. About thirty members of the Class were present.

1881.

REV JOHN W. SUTER, Sec.,
8 Chestnut St., Boston.

The dinner of the Class at the University Club, Boston, on the night before Commencement was the usual informal dinner. Forty-five members were present. The Secretary presided. Several men talked in an interesting

way, among them, Howard Elliott, in regard to the Committee on National Defense, C. H. W. Foster, who told of his experiences abroad in connection with Red Cross Relief Work, and W. R. Thayer, who spoke of Italy in the War. - Davis was the principal speaker at the recent Red Cross Achievement Banquet in San Francisco. Starr has an article in the Illinois Law Review on "Individualist and Social Conceptions of the Public."

1882.

HENRY W. CUNNINGHAM, Sec.,
89 State St., Boston.

Because of the war, the Class cut down the proposed celebration of its thirty-fifth anniversary to a simple dinner at the Algonquin Club, Boston, on Wednesday evening, June 20, at which forty-nine members were present, including two from Carolina William A. Blair, of Winston, N.C., and George W. Williams, of Charleston, S.C. Evert J. Wendell presided, and addresses were made by the secretary, by Godfrey L. Cabot, who appeared in his uniform as a naval officer and spoke most interestingly of his active work in aviation, by Blair, who told of the activity and progress of the South, and by Herbert G. Woodworth, who told of his recent trip to Japan and China. Besides Captain Cumming, of the British Army in Egypt, and Lieutenant Cabot, of the U.S. Navy Aviation Service, J. Edward Weld, of New York, is doing active service as a member of the Veteran Artillery Corps of 1790 for State Defense, and Morton S. Crehore, John H. Storer, and Nathaniel A. Francis, are serving in the veteran Corps of the Boston Cadets. Dr. Lucien M. Robinson, for many years Professor at the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, was on June 7, 1917, given the honorary de

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