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liappy. Quiet, retiriug, meek and mildly mannered ; such cliavacter he had 

 as it is a relief to meet. Poor boy! he lived only to enjoy the morning of 

 life, but all the world was beautiful to him as a maiden's dream. 



'•'He was born in Adrian, Michijjan, on the 21st of August, 1856. His parents 

 were English people, natives of Kent, but had long lived in America. 



"He very early evinced a great delight in the beautiful things of nature, the 

 flowers specially, and the shrubs and trees and streams and the big woods. 

 This trait was his leading characteristic. 



"He received his early education in the schools of his native city, entered 

 this college in 1875, and after his graduation with the class of '78, pursued a 

 post graduate course in his special studies, which included botany and horti- 

 culture. He was appointed assistant in these brandies at this institution in 

 18S0, which position he held but a short time until his death, which occurred 

 in March of the following year. 



"He was as dearly loved as any of our dead, and by the later members of our 

 brotherhood is perhaps most sorely and most sadly missed. 



"These, then, dear friends, are our brothers who are gone, — our mother's 

 sons, whom she might well have held out as her jewels; and your historian 

 has mentioned each thus fully as he well could, because each seemed worthy 

 of all that could be said. They were among our brightest and our best; sin- 

 gularly so it seems to me. Not one of them but had rare merits, not one but 

 left fair memories behind. Not one — so far as information upon -the subject 

 has been received — but that laid down this life in the hope and fair expecta- 

 tion that he would take up another and better existence in the life to come. 

 It may be that poor Long's sweet melodies — which mightily pleased many of 

 us who knew him well — still re-echo with even softer harmony; and it may 

 be that gentle Harry Owen will gather sweeter flowers in the greener fields 

 whither he has gone." 



The banquet was very enjoyable. Hon. Charles W. Garfield, class 1870, 

 acted as toast-master. 



The following were elected officers for the three years ending with the close 

 of the reunion of 1885: President, S. M. Millard, class 18(54; Vice Presi- 

 dents, Benj. T. Halsted, '73, Frank A. Gulley, '80; Secretary and Treasu- 

 rer, Prof. K. C. Carpenter, '73; Orator, Prof."E. M. Shelton, '71— alternate, 

 W. K. Prudden, '78; Historian, President C. L. Ingersoll, '74 — alternate, E. 

 Davenport, '78; Poet, 0. A. Augstman, '75 — alternate, W. E. Hubbert, '81. 



STUDE^STTS. 



There should be added to the list of students given in the catalogue for 

 1880-81 the following names : 



Eesident graduates: E. B. Patterson, B. A. (Oberlin), Elyria, Ohio; W. 

 C. Latta, B. S., '77, Mason, Ingham county; G. F. Failyer, M. S., Kansas 

 Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas. 



Juniors: L. H. Bailey, Jr., South Haven, Van Buren county; F. C. Sny- 

 der, Greenville, Montcalm county. 



Specials: Frank F. E. Lodeman, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw county; Erwiu 

 F. Smith, Ionia, Ionia county. 



The following names of students are to be added to the catalogue of 1881-83 : 

 W. M. Babcock, Taunton, Somerset county, Eug., special in Entomology; 

 H. H. Harrington, senioi' in Mississippi Agricultural College, special in Chem- 

 istry ; Fitz Hoy Osborn, Parkville, St. Joseph county. Freshman; Ella Sher- 



