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s YALE '94 cLAss BooK. Frank Scott Bunnell is the son of Rufus W. Bun- nell, an architect. The place of his nativity is Strat- . 'l ,. ford, Fairfield County, Conn., and the date of his A. birth October 2, 1872. One of his great-grand- ff . - 1, fathers graduated in the class of 1797 and another - - in the class of 1804, and he also had an ,uncle in 64 wi J , - , , . f and a brother in '91 S. He also had a cousin in Rut- ' I gers '87, Ancestry traceable to 1639. English, M Scotch, Welsh, French, Norse blood in his veins. fSome of this, he says, is well filteredi. Captain John Mason was a distinguished relative and too many others to mention. Calvin Burr was born April 21, 1872, at Auburn, N. Y. His father is Charles Porter Burr, retired. Many of his relatives are Yale graduates and among them are Nelson Beardsley, '27, H. Woodruff, '63, Alonzo Beardsley, jr., '75, Porter Beardsley, '86, and N. B. Burr, '93 S. He traces his ancestry to one generation before Adam and Eve and his blood is A Dutch and English. Nelson Beardsley Burr is a ' distinguished relative. john Cadwallader, jr., was born in the Quaker 1 -1 , 1 City, February 24, 1874. His father, john Cadwal- lader, is a lawyer, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, class of '62, His father has been col- lector of the Port of Philadelphia. Many relatives on father's side have graduated from University of Pennsylvania and many on his mother's side have graduated at Harvard. He traces his ancestry far ' ' enough for respectability, and is of Welsh, English :md Scotch blood. ku v V -1 '. ,' , 2. E. -.' ' I if , Walter Reid Callender made his debut in Provi- dence, R. I., February 28, 1872, and since that time his life has been fmisl spent in Providence, New Haven and Hampden. His father, Walter Callender, is in the dry goods business. Traces his ancestry only to his maternal ancestor. His blood is prin- cipally of the Scotch sort, and Cal says he is the only distinguished member of the family. ,- ,... .. .

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THE CLASS OF 1894. Pratt Anthony Brown first saw the light at Dub- lin, Bibb County, Georgia, September 6, 1874, 6 o'clock A. M., and has spent most of his life at Macon, Ga. His father, William W. Brown, is in the insurance business. He traces his ancestry to the landing of the Huguenot refugees in South Carolina. French and American blood in his veins, and he says that if he has any distinguished relatives he has never met them. Albert Henry Buck comes from Wilmington, Del- aware, and was born March 9, 1873. His father was Dr. C. Elton Buck, a chemist and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, class of '52, who has held various public offices and among them Presi- dent of the Board of Education. His ancestry is traced to one who arrived in this country from Eng- land about 168o. French and English blood in about equal proportions keeps the machine going. Charles Herbert Buell began life at Brooklyn, N. Y., December 17, 1871, and has spent most of his life there. His father, Charles S. Buell, is a manufact- urer. He traces his ancestry, with one or two breaks, back to the anthropoid ape, but he doesn't give us any idea of the kind of blood through which all this tracing is made, though we are sure he is not a representative of Borneo. Henry Walter Bunn, our 'tclass infant, came before the World at Morris, Otsego County, N. Y., May 29, 1875, and with the exception of five years spent in China, he has lived his life in the Empire State. His father, Rev. A. C. Bunn, is a minister and is mentioned as a distinguished relative. The aforesaid 'finfantn was formerly amember of the class of ,94 Columbia College and changed for Yale at the beginning of our Senior year.

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THE cLAss or 1894. james William Cantwell first visited that part of this earth known as Nacogdockes County, Texas, on March 6, 1868, and is the son of J. T. Cantwell, a Texas farmer. He was admitted on a diploma from another college the Hrst of our Senior year. Traces his ancestry four generations and is of Scotch-Irish blood. President Bayard Taylor was a cousin. Ira Merrill Carley was born at Shelburne Falls, Mass., May 11, 1871. His father was Rufus W. Car- ley, deceased. Has relatives at Harvard, Amherst and Williams. Traces his ancestry to about 1640, where it is lost in the shuflie. His blood is English, French and Irish, and he says his distinguished rela- tives are very few. George Bowen Case has made Kansas City, Mo., his home since June 9, 1872. His father, E. Case, jr., a lawyer, is a graduate of Marietta College. Cousins have graduated at Yale and several cousins and uncles in different colleges of the country. Traces his ancestry to the fifteenth century, and his blood is French, English, German and American. George's three-base hits have made him the most distin- guished of the line. Patrick joseph Cassidy came before the eyes of an admiring public at Norwich, Conn., july 6, 1874, and is the youngest of the class that entered at the first of our course, but he has since coughed up long trousers. His father, Patrick Cassidy, is a physician. Pat traces his ancestry directly to the paleolithic age, and his blood is Scotch, Irish, French and English, with a dash of German. MacLeod of Dare is a distinguished relative.