1885*

Our class treasurer, Henry Austin, and his wife left their New Hampshire home, in Webster, the last week in October, making a leisurely trip by automobile to their winter home, 433 4th St. North, St. Petersburg, Florida, stopping on the way to visit the World's Fair in New York and various other points on the route: the secretary has been hoping to hear from Henry whether the finances of the class will warrant an appropriate celebration at Hanover next June of the fifty-fifth anniversary of our graduation.

Our class now numbers sixteen living graduates and seven non-graduates; our president, Frank Whipple, recently called upon the secretary and was enthusiastic in making our "fifty-fifth" at least the equal of its predecessors and the secretary earnestly desires to hear from every othermember of the class regarding the matter.

Lorrain Weeks is the only member of the class, so far as the secretary recalls, who has made a special study and "hobby" of astronomy. He has long been a student and writer upon astronomical research and believes with some of our leading astronomers that our near neighbor Mars has a population of at least as high intelligence as our own. He is inclined to disagree with those who hold that our universe is like a clock continually running down, for he believes that the theory is at least equally tenable that it is more like a self-windingclock, due to the incalculable quantities of energy being constantly produced from light, heat and electricity. Weeks has been a Yankee resident of New York City for several years and he grimly describes the reason for the high regard in which the denizens of that congested locality regard Yankees is, because of their scarcity and many others can agree with him on that point.

The secretary and Mrs. Bayley have closed their summer home in Beverly and are spending the winter at Hotel Braemore, 466 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, where they would be glad to receive calls from any of the class.

"What a grand and glorious feeling" it gives us to see and hear how the Big GreenEleven is "going places."

Secretary, Kimball Bldg., Tremont St., Boston, Mass.