SEVENTH REPORT

OF THE

SECRETARY

OF

THE CLASS OF 1872

OF

HARVARD College.

1872-1898.

Printed for, the. Use of the Class.

BOSTON :

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING COMPANY,

18 POST OFFICE SQUARE.

1898.

103,284

RECEIVED

APR 2 1 1899

WIS, HIST. 80CIETY,

CLASS COMMITTEE.

CHARLES AMORY WILLIAMS.

CHARLES FRANCIS BAKER.

EDWARD BALDWIN RUSSELL.

ALBERT LAMB LINCOLN, JR., Secretary.

IX83H ·Z1872

PREFACE.

CLASSMATES:-This report has been delayed much longer than was intended when I announced last June that some delay was necessary; the further delay has been unavoidable, and the only compensation I can offer for your patience is that the record has been brought down practically to the present time, is more complete than it could have been a year ago, and has been made to cover the whole period since graduation.

I want to apologize for troubling you all so much as I have in getting the necessary information, and to thank you for your prompt replies to my circulars.

While some of the non-graduate members of the class have disappeared from our records, through my inability to trace them, I now have, I think, some knowledge of every graduate member, though some for one reason and some for another prefer to remain in retirement, and are unwilling that anything concerning them should be published. Their wishes in the matter of course are to be respected; but I cannot help thinking that they fail to realize how much interest is taken in any one who has been connected with the class, and who spent with us so intimately four years of his life.

My last report was published in 1894, and not many changes have taken place in our lives in the four years that have passed since then. Most of the class are by this time pretty well settled in their various occupations, and, as the following pages will show, are doing their share in the active work of the world.

While the past four years have brought us some joys, they have also brought their sorrows. We have been called upon