DR. LIAUTARD AND THE LOVING CUP. 
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large, that I fear many of them could not be present to take an active 
part in that celebration, and witness the presentation of this token of 
love and esteem, and appreciation of a quarter of a century’s work well 
done; and so I have sent you this photograph showing one of the three 
sides of the cup containing an engraving of his face, for reproduction in 
the Review, that it may reach all the boys, and trust that it is good 
enough to reproduce, being my own work, and decidedly amateur, and 
amateur work on silver cups, with the object of reproducing an engrav¬ 
ing thereon, is not “ a cinch. ” The other two sides, you can describe 
in your own well selected language. 
Yours very truly, 
Robert W. Ellis. 
At the great “ Jubilee ” there were many faces which are 
seen only at long intervals : class-mates who had not looked 
upon each other since the proud night that they had marched 
across the stage of Chickering Hall and received from President 
Weisse the roll of parchment as a reward of long hours of pa¬ 
tient and hard study, and who now greeted each other with al¬ 
most the enthusiasm of old lovers, joyfully going over the 
events of their college life and telling the story of their suc¬ 
cesses and failures after embarking upon the realities of the 
practice of their art. By one of such, Don C. Ayer, of the class 
of ’87, now the chief of the great meat inspection force at 
Omaha, we were shown a photograph of the Dean, taken soon 
after he landed in America, in the early sixties, and, by promis- 
