'59. Winsor B. French has a lucrative law practice at Saratoga Springs, New York. He is a member of the New York Commandery of the Loyal Legion, and is a prominent Grand Army man. '64. The Rev. Ezekiel Fitzgerald, whose resignation of his Vermont pastorate was noted a few weeks ago, is in Boston and is supplying whatever pulpit may be vacant in the vicinity. '66. The Rev. Dr. Asa Saxe, who received his doctor's degree with this class, completed his thirty-fifth year as pastor of the First Universalist Church in Rochester, New York, Sunday, March 3. He took the occasion of the anniversary to tender his resignation to the parish, much to the regret of his many friends. Only twenty-five of those who heard his first sermon before the parish were present to hear his resignation. During his pastorate he has preached more than two thousand sermons and attended over two thousand five hundred funerals. '78. The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Nash, pastor of the Church of Our Father, Brooklyn, New York, announces a series of discourses upon the striking subject "Cranks and Crankery." It is said that there will be some interesting portraiture done in these sermons, and that a goodly number of prominent New York and Brooklyn people will be shown in a searching light. '79. William Fuller, who was for some years located at Lynn, has removed to Auburndale. He is one of the board of instruction and management of the Mechanic Arts High School, Boston. '82. H. L. Riley, formerly a lawyer at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, now has a law office at 62 Devonshire Street, Boston, and resides in Woburn. '83. H. F. Edwards has removed from Philipsburg to Butte City, Montana. '83. Fred S. Pearson has decided to give his whole attention to the interests of the Dominion Coal Company, and has given up his important electrical and engineering work in New York City, intending soon to take up his residence in Halifax, Nova Scotia. '88. F. P. Huntress, formerly of this class, recently declined the second vice-presidency of the Laconia Car Company. Mr. Huntress has been the general travelling agent of the company for some years. '90. E. W. Newton is making an extended trip through the South and West in the interests of Ginn and Co. His permanent address is 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City. '94. Sumner Clement, who has been pursuing advanced work at Tufts, has left college to accept a promising position with the Plymouth Woolen Co. at Plymouth, Massachusetts. the Rev. Mabel L. MacCoy was installed as '94. On Wednesday evening March 13, pastor of the First Universalist Parish at Manswill preside is a small one and comparatively field. The parish over which Mrs. MacCoy new, but is prosperous and has a strong influence in the community. She is the fifth ordained woman in the Universalist ministry and the first one to be installed in Massachusetts. Since undertaking the work of this department we have been able, through the interest and aid of graduates and friends of the college, to make numerous corrections in the alumni directory, but there still remain many blank spaces which we desire to fill if possible. We are duly grateful for the aid we have previously received in response to similar calls, and request a continuation and increase of the same. Any information concerning the following men, or any reference to a possible source of information, will be thankfully received: Frank B. Cornell, '69; G. L. Fernald, '73; Fred Gray, '73; John B. Gilpatrick, '76; the Rev. G. M. D. Barnes, '77; the Rev. E. A. Earle, '78; Matthias Little, '79; A. J. Fynn, '84; Edwin M. Lee, '85; E. L. Gerrish, '87. Local March 28 is the date for the next evening party. Class work in the gymnasium was finished last week. A. D. Robinson, '97, has left college to enter Maine State College. News. Newton Talbot, treasurer of Tufts, was on the Hill the twelfth of this month to collect term bills. The treasurer has recently celebrated his eightieth birthday. The elections of H. C. Whitaker, '96, and R. W. Pindar, '96, as captain and manager, respectively, of the football team have been The biology classes are now occupying the ratified by the advisory committee. new labaratories in Barnum Museum. The members of Theta Deta Chi are engaged in an interesting handicap billiard tournament. Thayer, '97, is recovering from the injury to his hip and has resumed his work in the college. The advanced class in oratory will present a scene from Shakespeare in Goddard Chapel in the near future. The Class Day committee has invited R. W. Pindar, '96, to act as chief usher at the morning exercises on Class Day. The Rev. B. F. Eaton, pastor of All Souls' Church of Worcester, Massachusetts, con The chemistry class of the Sophomore engineers meets Thursday evenings instead of Saturday mornings. This change was made in order that more time might be given to the work and better results realized. C. N. Barney, '95, has returned from Rutland, Vermont, where he has been teaching the past six weeks in the Rutland Classical Institute. Mr. Barney resumes charge of the TUFTONIAN with this issue, relieving Mr. Dunham, who has edited the past two issues. The young women of Metcalf Hall gave a very delightful whist, Thursday, March 14. Miss Brown, '97, took the ladies' first prize, ducted the services in Goddard Chapel, Sunday, and Miss Gifford, '98, the second. H. W. March 10. The Tufts mansion, the original home of Charles Tufts, which has stood for so many years opposite the Old Powder House, is being pulled down. John Eills carries a fine line of Lowney's chocolates, and will continue to carry on the candy and stationery business in connection with the post-office. J. B. Chase, Jr., formerly of the class of '97, will sail for Europe March 23. He intends to visit many of the large cities of Europe and to be gone about six months. Holbrook, '96, carried off the gentlemen's first, and G. C. Pierce, '96, the second. According to a new rule imposed upon the students, the morning bell for chapel is rung at twenty minutes after eight, and at half-past eight the chapel doors are locked, thereby shutting out all stragglers who have been accustomed to interrupt the morning service. The following men of the Senior Class have been invited to prepare commencement parts: Eugene Averell, C. N. Barney, E. P. Clark, Channing Craig, C. L. Eaton, H. C. Folsom, O. F. Lewis, C. L. Ricketts, R. B. Smith, W. R. Whitehorne, and G. M. Winslow. W. R. Dunham, '95, recently read at a meeting held to organize a lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Women in Somerville. Miss Hettie B. Williams, of the board of visitors for the College of Letters, has recently inspected the class work in several departments. The class in English Literature VII. has voted to send H. C. Folsom, '95, and H. B. Fobes, '95, as its delegates to the Harvard presentation of Ben Jonson's "The Silent Woman," in Saunder's Theatre. The base-ball candidates are in training under the supervision of the captain. They number about thirty, and it is expected that a good team will be put in the field this spring. Johnston, Cummings, Lane, Richardson, '98, and Christian, '98, are trying for the pitcher's position. Foss, Russell, '97, and Cole, '98, are candidates for catcher. The manager has his dates nearly filled, and the prospect for a successful season is good. O. F. Lewis, '96, and A. M. Bullard, of Brookline, will personally conduct a party of fourteen cyclers, composed partly of Tufts undergraduates, through several European countries during the coming summer. The tour is to be managed on the co-operative plan, each man sharing proportionally in the expenses, which will aggregate not more than $350 per man. The tour as mapped out embraces the finest scenery and the best roads of Central Europe, and the party, being made up principally of college men, will manage to get the best time possible out of their trip. The managers will be glad to answer any inquiries as to details and to enroll any alumni who wish to join the party. The cast for the English comedy entitled "Ralph Roister Doister," to be presented by the class in English literature sometime in May, is as follows: Ralph Roister Doister, C. D. Clark, '95; Mathew Merigreek, W. R. Dunham, '95; Gawyer Goodluck, affianced to Custance, E. C. Craig, '95; Tristram Trustie, his friend, A. K. Lane, Special; Tom Trupenie, servant to Custance, E. J. Hewitt, '97; Dobinet Doughtie, Roister's boy, C. L. Ricketts, '95; Sym Suresby, servant to Goodluck, F. H. Chessmore, '95; Scrivener, C. L. Eaton, '95; Widow Custance, R. K. Marvin, '95; Margerie Mumblecrust, her nurse, A. B. Start, '97; Tibet Talkapace, her maiden, H. B. Fobes, 95; Annot Alyface, her maiden, C. B. Green, '97. A number of beautifully mounted skeletons. from Austria have just arrived at Barnum Museum. There is a very fine cartilaginous skeleton of a sturgeon, and a good skeleton of the Monitor of the Nile - that animal which is supposed to warn people against snakes. Then there are skeletons of the fruit-eating bat, woodpecker, pigeon, parrot, cod, frog, toad, salamander, hawk, cock, turtle, hedgehog, gallinule, carp, pike, perch, bandicoot, alligator, heron, goose, snake, gnawing shark skulls, and also a great deal of alcoholic material. Mrs. Thomas Whitworth, of Medford, has just presented the college with many very good alcoholic specimens from Madagasca, mostly reptiles and insects. The specimens of Barnum Museum are very fine as far as they go, and are increasing at a surprising rate. They consist largely of mammal, and all of the new additions have fortunately gone to supplement the original collection instead of duplicating. It is really unfortunate for the college that the authorities having charge of the new athletic field should so fail to realize the possibilities of Tufts in ling to let a small expenditure of money stand in the way of a successful is spring. Yet this seems to be the case. Manager Saunders has done all us a team this spring that cannot fail to do credit to the college, if properly f this team is obliged to play all its games away from the Hill, by reason of the agement to raise money at the games here, there will be the same apathy as regards the fortunes of the team, as heretofore. It is a great shame that tee, now that it has it in its power to give a boom to baseball at Tufts by field suitable for home games, fails to take advantage of its opportunity. It nable to argue that because the Athletic Association is in debt no money for rolling the field. This is all the more reason why we should hasten to shape, in order to get some income from our baseball and put athletics on a well to be conservative in such matters, but when such an opportunity as the ought not to be lost. By all means let us have the field put in condition for lines we have endeavored to account in a measure for the apparent lack of nes of baseball, and have predicted that the apathy could in large measure be things in condition so that every one will have to pay to see games. As the s must inevitably be raised when students give moral and financial support to a tandard of our other student interests can be raised if men are prompt in paying money required to conduct them. Probably few men realize that the editors are now presenting them a paper which, with all modesty we can say, stands well among the journals issued by colleges of the size of ours, and yet no one realizes better than the editors, the possibilities of the paper if the students were prompt in rendering their financial assistance to the business department by the payment of dues, and their literary and moral support to the editors, by contributing manuscript and making suggestions. The reading-room, too, suffers from this carelessness, indifference, or whatever it is that makes men thoughtless of their responsibilities when shared in common with others. Now the assessment which the Readingroom Association asks for is a small one, and a little thought would convince every loyal undergraduate that he ought to meet this bill promptly and cheerfully. We believe he would, too, if he could realize the possibilities for improvement in the literature of the reading-room and the magazine list of the library if the students would only assist the buying committee with the very small sum of money asked of them. We Tufts men can be loyal enough when we try, but we ought to keep our loyalty up to the mark all the time by encouraging our student interests and developing the undergraduate "spirit" that proves such a potent factor for good in the life of any institution. It is always a sad duty to chronicle the death of an undergraduate in the college, but the obligation is particularly sad when one is withdrawn from our midst under such circumstances as surrounded the departure of William Morton Small, of the Junior class. One who knew him up to the day of his death as the clear-headed, jovial fellow that he always was in the class room, the society house, or wherever he came in contact with his associates, cannot fail to be surprised that in a fit of melancholia he should have taken his own life and passed into the next world. The astonishment is heightened when one remembers the moral plane of his life and reflects that Small had apparently everything to live for. Honors that few men can attain to were his during his college course, and everything that any young man could wish for seemed to lie before him, except, perhaps, the one thing of which he despaired, bodily health. Although he had been affected for years with a nerve trouble, few of his friends knew all he suffered in consequence of this disorder. His work in the class room was of the highest order, his efforts in behalf of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity showed the greatest loyalty, and his labors in connection with the coming edition of the "Brown and Blue," of which he was editor-in-chief, were carefully performed, and would have reflected the highest credit upon him. Despite the favorable nature of all his surroundings, he was too weak to withstand the impulse to take his own life when the fit of melancholy, to which he was subject, prompted this in him. But notwithstanding that his own weakness is responsible for the vacant place among us, those who were acquainted with him in his college life cannot fail to cherish in the heart a warm spot to the memory of Morton Small. Ralph Roister THE announcement has been made that Professor Maulsby and a class in English literature are preparing an old English comedy for representation in the early spring. This announcement means something more than that a few young men of the college are about to give a play in which dramatic presentation is the chief interest. To transport the spectator from a place of learning of the nineteenth century to a great school of the sixteenth, with the changes in costume, language, methods of thought, etc., which that transportation implies, and to graphically set forth the conditions in the midst of which English comedy had its origin, is the aim of the English department. Perhaps a few words about the comedy selected for production may not be untimely. Whether considered from the historical, personal, literary, or romantic standpoint, if the last term may be used to characterize the fate of the only original copy, it is rich in interest. It is the first English comedy. For nearly two centuries Bishop Still received homage from men of letters for writing, in a style it must be confessed scarcely sacerdotal, the first English comedy, called "Gammer Gurton's Needle " (1566). It was not much to boast of, as a play, but still it was the earliest we had, and to the worthy Bishop due honor was paid, till a more legitimate claimant dispossessed him. |