Harvard College Class of 1887 Secretary's Report Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...Fla., on his way to Cuba and Honduras: "From July 13, 1887, to Nov. n, 1887, I was abroad, and had a fairly rapid but satisfactory trip with my family through England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Isle of Jersey, France, Switzerland, Holland, and Belgium, ending with some shooting in Wales and Ireland before sailing for Boston on the Cunarder ' Pavonia.' For three months I learned something of book-keeping, and tried in vain to improve my handwriting at a commercial college. February, 1890, saw me at 44 State Street, Boston, in the office of Lee, Higginson & Co., bankers and brokers. I have been there since. I am still single, and shall probably remain so until the second triennial; after that I will not answer for. My life in these two years has been quiet and the ordinary work of a new hand, only interrupted by a trip to Nova Scotia in October, 1888, for moose, which I neither shot nor saw; a run west in November and December, 1888, as far as Salt Lake City, and north to Helena, and home by St. Paul; another vacation hunt to New Brunswick, this time also for moose and also barren of result, save-a couple of caribou and some salmon trout; a week in October, 1889, to Virginia, on a coal and iron trip; and the expedition upon which I now am, and from which I may never return, as to-day I hear of a revolution in the neighboring Republic. You ask as to clubs. I am a member of the Puritan and Boston Athletic Clubs, and in connection with the latter a very enjoyable event was the triangular eight-oared race between the 'Varsity, the Union Boat Club, and the Athletic crew, last spring. Although defeated, we were not last, and Keyes, Brooks, and myself, respectively numbers 3, 7, and 4, watched, or rather felt, as our eyes were on the back of the man in...