Class of 1899

The annual meeting of the secretaries at Hanover on May 4 and 5 was a joyous occasion. The chief orator of the meeting was none other than His Honor Charles H. Donahue, B. L., A.M., LL. 8., LL.D., etc. His subject was "A Review of Recent Class Reports." For over an hour he held the secretaries spellbound. While he gave the first prize to Piper of the class of '76, he somehow conveyed by his words to each of the other secretaries that there was something in his report that made it unique and different and worthwhile. He sat down amid tremendous applause, and everyone murmured to his neighbor, "There is only one Charlie Donahue !"

For the benefit of the secretaries the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "Pirates of Penzance," which had been put on for the first time Friday evening while we were listening to speeches by the President, Professor Joshi, and Dan Hatch, was repeated Saturday night. It was beautifully done. Of course all of the voices were not of professional calibre, but the ensemble effects and the acting were as fine as we have ever seen. Imagine a professor of political science, six feet four and weighing two hundred twenty pounds, wearing a long, drooping, dragoon's moustache, a policeman's uniform topped by a huge helmet, and gesticulating wildly with a night club about three feet long, the while he roared out that a policeman's lot is not a happy one. You have guessed that it was none other than James Parmelee Richardson, about whom there appeared the following comment in the daily Dartmouth:

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