Excerpt from Class of Eighty-Five, Amherst College: Letters From the Class, And, an Account of the Quinquennial

I entirely approve of your plan of establishing 'the Nursery My own impression is that if such an institution had been established during '85's regime in college, many of us had matured much earlier in life. 1 could write you a book on what I don't know about my classmates. I do not know of any nearer in distance to me than Columbus, 0. So I see much of them. Jase Hinman and Ned Tuttle spent a week with me during the Holidays, and we had an '85 reunion on a rather different scale, both in size and character, from what those staid events are remarkable for.

Pliny fiske, 81 Causeway St., Boston. There are very few new developments in my case of interest to '85 men. I am not yet married have not changed my location and there is no prospect of a change so far as I know. I was much disappointed in not being able to attend the Boston dinner and see the new President. I have not seen an '85 man for some time in Boston.

Tod B. Galloway, Esq., 553 E. Town St., Columbus, Ohio. Either the reunion last summer, or the election last fall has completely turned Tod's head. His letter is a perfect jumble and affords me the greatest difficulty in endeavoring to extract from it anything coherent. However, here goes! Tod's name appears third on the letter-heads of the firm of Nash Lentz, Board of Trade Building, Columbus, 0. I am not informed as to the cor rect form in legal letter-heads but presume that means that he is a sort of a third-rate lawyer. Business is not pressing, so he expects soon to go, dead-head as usual, on a jaunt through the South. He attends all the dinners that he can obtain invitations to and applauds when the crowd applauds and smiles when the crowd smiles. He is not married or even engaged. Joking aside, rumor brings glowing messages regarding the curly-headed child of destiny. His speech at the dinner commemorating the 7oth birthday of Judge Thurman, where he spoke for the young men of Columbus, was received with great favor.

George E gardner, Esq., Walker Building, Wor oester, Mass. Five years out of college have brought me a good deal of experience and an even greater amount of happiness. I am in the rank and file of Worcester lawyers, and am still waiting for the case which every lawyer hopes is to pave the way to fame and fortune. I have been engaged in the compilation of an unpre tentions legal work which the author hopes is soon to see the light through the medium of a Chicago publisher. Rally to the rescue of the publisher at'any rate, my legal brethren in '85, and buy it when it appears. You see I am combining business with pleasure in the writing of this letter. I have no events of any particular or general interest to chronicle, but can merely say that life realizes more to me continually, and that I find constant cause for rejoicing in Amherst as alma mater, and in '85 as my class.

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