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contemplated. As a result, its scope was much enlarged, 

 and plans were considered for a general reunion in which 

 athletic events should not occupy the greater part of the 

 time. The committee then offered to turn over the entire 

 matter to the Alumni Association, but the latter requested 

 the committee to continue the work begun, offered its 

 hearty co-operation, and promptly arranged to take 

 charge of several of the principal features. Efforts were 

 made to enlist the support of the President and Board of 

 Trustees of the University, and of other bodies and inter- 

 ests closely allied with the University. The enthusiasm 

 and spirit of activity which met this attempt encouraged 

 the committee to at once make the needful arrangements. 

 President Kemsen gave an emphatic endorsement of the 

 idea and assured the committee of his desire and inten- 

 tion to assist in every way. The Board of Trustees 

 appointed the following committee to co-operate with the 

 alumni, viz : Messrs. Waldo Newcomer, Thomas J. Mor- 

 ris, Blanchard Eandall, and Miles White, Jr. As soon as 

 the President of the Johns Hopkins Club, Mr. George 

 Cator, heard of the proposed reunion, and long before any 

 arrangements were made for it, he pledged the support of 

 the club, and promised that it would take any part de- 

 sired, and that, if the club should not feel able to pay the 

 expenses incurred in doing so, he personally would pay 

 them. 



The proposition to hold class reunions awakened great 

 interest and enlisted the support of many of the old 

 alumni. The general committee, in co-operation with 

 Mr. Horace S. Whitman (A. B., 1901), who acted as 

 general chairman of the class reunions, appointed a 

 special committee for each class as follows : 1879, G. W. 

 McCreary; 1880, H. F. Eeid; 1881, J. H. Johnson; 1882, 

 Edward Ingle; 1883, H. W. Williams; 1884, G. D. Penni- 

 man, J. Williams Lord; 1885, John Glenn, Jr.; 1886. 

 Allan McLane; 1887, E. H. Bayard, Edward Duffy; 1888, 

 Walter Jones, A. L. Lamb, A. L. Browne; 1889, Waldo 



