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Class Book. 25 John Ambrose Doolittle left in Spring of Junior year. Is now attending lectures at the Law School and reporting for the Mw' Haven News. Pedro Florentino Francke left during Junior year, and is now at. the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Addison Graves left in the Spring of Senior year, and is unen-- gaged at present. ' Stephen Benedict Grummond left during Junior year. He studied law for a time and is now proprietor of a hotel in Detroit.. Edwin Richard Hodge left at the end of Freshman year and entered Johns Hopkins University. George Snowdon Howland left during Junior year, and is now engaged in the banking business at El Paso, Texas. Harry Ly ndstone Johnson left durin.g Junior year, and went into- business in Boston, where he still remains. ' Charles Wilbur' Knox, entered the class at tl1e beginning of' Junior year, but remained only a short time. He is now living in New York, but is not engaged in any business. Charles Edward Montgomery left at the end of Freshman year, and is now engaged in mining at Plymouth, California. Augustus Lester Moss left early in Junior year. He is now bank- ing in Sandusky, Ohio. Edward Marshal Ney' left in the Spring of Junior year, and is- in business in Hartford,'Conn. , .Frank Weyman Parmenter left at end of Freshman year, and spent the following year in the banking business. He entered 89' in the fall of 87, and will graduate with that class. Edward Horatio Parker entered' the class at the beginning of Junior year, but left at Christmas. He is now on the engineering corps of the Y., N. H. and H. road, with headquarters at New Haven. Daniel Tucker Coiiin Perkins left in March of Senior year. He- inteuds to go into the lumber business somewhere in Oregon. Solomon Franklin Rupert left at the beginning of Junior year, and traveled extensively in the west. He is now banking in Minne- apolis, Minn. Henry Pinney Sage left the class in the Spring of Freshman year- on account' of ill health. He has traveled considerably since, and is at present located in New Haven. '

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24 Yale '88, S. The average age of the class is 21 years, 3 months and 11 days. The diversity has a large range, extending from G. B. Berger, whose age is 19 years and 30 days, to Wilcox, who was born 28 years and 25 days ago. Norton falls short of the average by five- days, and Bond exceeds it by the same number. In height and weight we are strong, and have twelve men who are six feet tall or over. At the head of these is Franchot, who is 6 feet 3 inches in height and weighs 195 pounds. The other extreme- is found in Shigemi, who escapes being five feet tall by just one- eighth of an inch and can only claim 91 pounds of avoirdupois. The averages are: Height, 5 feet 9 1-7 inches, weight, 1505 pounds.. Those who approach nearest the average are, of the first: Colton, Easterbrook, Gold, G. G. Mason, Prouty and Shelton, each falling one-seventh of an inch below it, of the second: Bean, Dickey, Davison, Hamlin, Lockwood and McCrea, all being one-half pound too light. The Composite man of '88 S. would wear a seven and a fifth- Q7 1-51 glove, and Ellis and Gray would be farthest below him with. sixes, while lVoodruif would go to the highest with a nine. Our hats will average 7115. 'Here W. S. Mason carries off the palm for Nlargeness of head, with a number 72. Le Sassier has the smallest, wearing a number 63. In shoes the limits are both sought for. Franchot, as suits his statue, wears an eleven, while Gray and Shigemi are both satisded with fives. Easterbrook requires more laundry at one time than any one else in the class, wearing a number 165 collar. Le Sassier needs only a 13. ' FORMER MEMBERS. Arthur Chambers Alexander left in April of Senior year, and is traveling in Europe. He will return next year and pursue an ad- vanced course, receiving his diploma dated 1888. Gardiner Ball, Jr., left in the Fall of Senior year and went imme- diately to Europe. He will go into business on his return. Theodore Whitney Blake left at the end of Freshman year, spent a year in the South and entered '90 S. in September 1887. John Nesbit Conyngham left during Junior year. He is now pursuing a special course at Sheff.

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26 Yale '88, S. Orville Emerson Sloat left in the firsthalf of Junior year. I-Ieis now purser on a steamer of the Indian River line in Florida. Stanley Matthews Stagg left at the end of Freshman year, and is now engaged in business with his father and brother in Frankfort, Ky. George Parker Thompson left in the first half of Freshman year. Frank Nehemiah WVatterman left at the end of Freshman year, and entered the SibleySchoo1 of Engineering at Cornell University. He will graduate with the class of '89 at that institution. Charles Spencer YVells was obliged to leave because of poor 'health in the Spring of Junior year. He is now working in a ma- chine shop in Bridgeport. Herbert Kip VVood left in the Fall of Freshman year. Albert Joseph Young died June 14th, 1886. Wxzanmlxs, God, in His innnite wisdom has seen fit to remove from our midst our beloved classmate, Albert Joseph Young, be it RESOLVED, That we, his classmates, desire to express our pro- found sorrow at the loss of one whose thorough manliness, warm- heartcd generosity and Christian character have always commanded our respect and admiration. Also, we would testify to our appreciation of the 1'are privilege which we have enjoyed in having among us so good an influence .and example as his. Be it further Rszsonvmn, That we convey to his family an expression of our -sympathy with them in their bereavement, and. as a token of our :sorrow wear a badge of mourning for thirty days, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and published in all the College papers. J. E. DOCKENDORF, ' S. H. MCCREA, JR., C. -B. BERGER, Committee for the class.