Class of 1904, G. E. HAMILTON, Secretary.

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HE number of responses to the letters of the Secretary has not

been as generous as usual. Quite a number of the class are so situated that a response within the time allowed was out of the question. HENRY is still judging in Egypt, HORNBECK is on his way to Hawaii, SPERRY is lecturing at Oxford, ROBINS lives in London, and PAUL YOUNG is in South Dakota where President Coolidge is vacationing.

We have another possible explanation of the lack of replies. The recrudescence of the periodical general condemnation of the Rhodes Scholarships must weigh rather heavily on the members of the class of 1904. For are not they the ones especially who should be in congress and managing the nation? Perhaps some of them have decided to meet this issue squarely and become statesmen, and everyone knows that a prospective statesman in America must be very careful never to say anything in print that might later be misinterpreted to his disadvantage. Hence, perhaps the "Calvinistic" silence.

The Secretary was making up his Rotary attendance at the Philadelphia Rotary Club recently and happened to strike a day when a dinner in the evening took the place of the regular Monday luncheon so that attendance at the luncheon was not compulsory. There was nevertheless an unusual attendance and it was explained to him by several neighbors at the table that the Chairman of the Educational Committee had charge of the program and that he was an unusual Chairman. The Chairman in charge proved to be none other than GEORGE BARNES. George was in great form and did more than justice to his Rotary reputation.

BEVAN writes more than our allotted space can accommodate concerning his work for intelligent world understanding and fellowship. He closes: "Words seem pitifully inadequate to express my gratitude for inspiring co-operation of Rhodes Scholars and other friends. For to such indispensable team work must be credited the lion's share of anything I have done, or may be able further to accomplish."

TUCKER BROOKE has returned to Yale after an agreeable summer as visiting professor at the University of Chicago, where he found a great plenty of the most excellent Oxonians: Schmitt, Wallis, R. C. Platt, G. F. Spaulding among others. Specially memorable were a luncheon provided by Winston in his legal citadel down-town, enjoyed also by Schmitt and that bird of passage, Hornbeck; and a visit with Schmitt to Winston's home in Evanston. Aydelotte pernoctated once in Chicago and presided at a breakfast of quite Oxford proportions at his hotel; and Vowles paused amiably for a Sunday in August on his way (by auto) from his summer cottage in Minnesota to his academic desk at Davidson, N. C.

R. P. BROOKS was away from his work at the University of Georgia several months last year on account of illness, but we are glad to report he is now fully recovered.

BUSH writes: "Glad to hear from you. I am spending this summer quietly, working here at School during July and loafing at the seashore during August. Spent too much money last summer on a trip abroad and have to recover from that. I have seen three different parties off from New York for Europe this year and I am bound to say that I wish I were going too."

COON has recently been made managing editor of The Classical Journal, and modestly states that "Beginning with the next issue in October the classical world may expect a large slump in the calibre of that estimable journal. Of course, the Rhodes Scholar world may not be visibly affected."

From CRITTENDEN: "I was agreeably surprised yesterday by having Hornbeck step in on me looking as if he were a multi-millionaire; he was on his way to Honolulu, and is one of the few men who, although intellectual, can talk interestingly. He promised to come to California and go hunting with me and ride a few cow-horses.

"Hornbeck seems to have seen more Rhodes Scholars than any man that I have ever met. He reports that the only way you can see Paul Keiffer is to break through at least a dozen secretaries; that Horner Winston is just the same good fellow he used to be; that Tigert hasn't got the 'swell head', and that Bevan looks about the same

as ever. He said Barnes' hair is white, but that he is more handsome and affable than ever. He tells me I am a damn fool, and I shall have to refer you to him for his reasons.

"I am a little grayer, a little balder, otherwise they tell me I am 'more so than ever', which means nothing except to those who know me pretty well."

MURRAY states: "I have not much to report. I have not acquired any more avoirdupois. My hair is a little thinner upon the temples. The years are going by much faster. At one time I was master of my fate; my three daughters now leave me no mastery but plenty of fate."

No word was received from NIXON, but we glean from the press that his Alma Mater, Wesleyan University, honored him in June with the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

ROBINS writes in part: "It has been a busy year for me and an anxious one for us all in this country. Please assure any of the 1904 Vintage of R. S. that they are always certain of a hearty welcome here if they are visiting London."

SCHUTT has written a very able answer to the recent questions raised by critics of the Rhodes Scholarship which appeared in the July 20 number of The Commonweal. It is a conservative, clear-cut analysis of a lot of well meaning but muddled thinking.

WINSTON writes: "I haven't any interesting news about myself. I am just sticking on the job and practicing law, which is precisely what I have been doing in Chicago for the past seventeen years. I had the pleasure last week of entertaining at luncheon Dr. Tucker Brooke of Yale, Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck of Harvard and Dr. Bernadotte Schmitt of the University of Chicago. I felt about half-clothed in the company of these eminent men, each wearing so many degrees. But they haven't changed much. We took the discussion up just where we left off twenty years ago."

Class of 1905, CARY R. ALBURN, Secretary.

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EIGH ALEXANDER and family sailed June 18 to spend the summer and next year abroad. He had planned to do this last year, but on account of a sudden decision of his parents and sister to return to the United States from Egypt for a year he postponed his leave of absence.

ARMSTRONG, now Assistant Medical Director of The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, is spending his summer vacation in Maine. Like your Secretary, he has finally managed to send a photograph of himself to Mr. Wylie. He tenders the following cordial invitation: 'Please let all of my Rhodes Scholar friends know my present address is 45 Park Avenue, New York City,—a situation which I know they will find convenient when they come to New York. I should be very glad to have them let me know when they get to New York, because the pleasure of seeing them is something I do not wish to miss. I have sufficient quarters to have them come and stay with me, and if they cannot do that, then I hope that they will be willing to have dinner, at least."

It is reported on reliable authority that the short and simple annals of AYDELOTTE's last six years at Swarthmore are about to be published by the American Branch of the Oxford Press in the shape of a volume by Professor R. C. Brooks entitled Reading for Honors at Swarthmore. The demonstration of the feasibility of Honors work on the Oxford plan has been the one thing Dr. Aydelotte has been most anxious to accomplish at Swarthmore, and this record proves that the scheme has worked.

ELIOT is engaged this summer in an interesting experiment in "Adult Education" concentrated in a territory semi-residential and semiindustrial two miles from the downtown district of Pittsburgh. The twenty evening courses of The Manchester Library and Educational Center, of which he is Executive Secretary, consist of six sessions each and concern themselves with every-day living, or as Eliot expresses it-"Putting one's best into life, both at home and on the job, so that one may get the most out of life-by understanding it better and enjoying it more intelligently."

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HACK writes: "The five months in Italy and Greece last year cluded a trip to Mt. Athos on the U. S. N. Scorpion, whose officers were a splendid lot of men My attempt to finish up some Greek puzzles and my otherwise tranquil life were interrupted by my appointment as chairman of a committee of the A. A. U. P. to investigate the (municipal) University of Louisville, Kentucky. As a potential 'judge', I can only say that the work was fascinating.

"How many Oxford men have read the little 'Microcosmographia Academica' of F. M. Cornford, the Cambridge scholar? It is the wittiest textbook of university politics, and one of the wisest."

FORD diplomatically commences his epistle by congratulating the editorial force on compiling such an interesting publication as the July issue. He states that he has recently met John Tigert at Washington and Beverley Tucker at Norfolk, that he has been practicing law at Pascagoula, Miss., for about eleven years and that the eldest of his three boys is now fifteen. After painting a word picture which would put to shame the "Native Sons" of California and of Florida, but which the official censor forbids me to incorporate herein, he continues: "Many millions have been invested in large and permanent enterprises down here, like sea walls and hotels. Visitors

from all sections of the country have been here and the hotel registers read like a list of 'Who's Who in America'. Practically all water courses from Pensacola, Florida, to New Orleans have been bridged or are being bridged and the whole Coast section is seeing wonderful development. Of course you know the wonderful climate we have down here, and this with the beautiful southern landscape are the chief attractions."

MAHAFFIE pursues the even tenor of his way, making life miserable for various railroad magnates who contemplate mergers.

MOHLER continues as Director of the Department of International Service of the International Y. M. C. A. College at Springfield, Mass.

MORAN writes: "My boy, aged 15, regularly beats me at golf, and as for tennis I won't go on the same court with him. The rest of the family are all in California for the summer, and I leave to-morrow to join them."