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Dear lalter ^r-esent list ts: Alexander, Curtis, Curtis,I)eane, Dtxon,DIx- 

 well,Drew, Frothingham, Fulle r. Rosea, L tnooln, McMiohael , Monroe, Parrish, Pen- 

 dleton, Perrtn, Soudder,^wan,Vaughan,Viaux, Willis. 21- What the secretary 

 of a recent Class does I have little idea} but many of their reports seem 



to me ridiculous. It Is now the custom for most secretaries to send covles 

 of their revorts to all other secretaries, r^n the whole a foolish custom. 

 In my old-fashloed oolnlon.The Class of 1903 sent me a volume of some 

 1500 pages. I think a member of the Class gave the vaver,and the nrlntlng 

 cost $14, 000! Much of what I read seemed to me to be in very bad taste. 

 One man said he was divorced from his wlfe,and"lt hurt like Hell". 



I shall miss Wllby very much. It must be more tan two years svnce 

 I have seen him, because the last times he went through Boston In summer, 

 on his way to Blddeford Pool, he had to go to bed in a hotel between 

 trains, and could not see anybody. But for several years we have kert up a 

 correspondence, and his last letter to me he dictated to a nurse. S/hen he 

 got time to sleev I do not know. If he wrote me after a couvle of weeks, 

 he would send Mrs. Swan the nam.es of five or six books he had Just read. 

 I called most of them "stuff" but she likes to read an occasional novel, 

 so he sent them to her. And he was always writing to everybody- for exam- 

 ple: not long ago he sent me copies of a cqrresvondence he had had with 

 some athletic official at Cambridge. I didn't read It very carefully, but 

 as I remember the matter, the third-base man of the Harvard nine had been 

 guilty of some rowdyism In an Important gafbe,and had been severely oe- 

 nallzed;! think the game was forfeited. (I should never have heard of It ■ 

 except for Sfllby's letter.) He was the best player on the nine, and It was 

 provosed to make him car^taln the next season. S^llby wrote to Cambridge to 

 know If a man who had been guilty of such behavior was to be encouraged 

 by promotion. The Cambridge man was civil enough, but I got the idea that 

 he thought he did not need S'llby's assistance . How the affair ended I 



