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Axtell, John Vaughn. Prepared at Juniata College, Huntington, Pa. Graduated at Auburn, '06. Mr. Axtell will be engaged in Home Mission work at Wanakena, N. Y.

Emerson, Frank Owen, B. A. Graduated at Park College, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Emerson goes as a foreign missionary under the Presbyterian Board to Batanga, Kameroon, Africa

Fleming, Isaac, Ph. B. Graduated Brown University, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Fleming is Stated Supply at Fair Haven, N. Y. Hanson, Henry G., B. A. Graduated University of Minnesota, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Hanson has accepted a call to Harlem, Mont. Hunter, Joel DuBois, B. A. Graduated Hamilton College, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Hunter has accepted a call to be assistant to Dr. Graham Taylor, Chicago Tabernacle, Chicago.

Judd, Henry Pratt, B. A. Yale University, '01; Auburn, '06. Mr. Judd is working among the mountaineers at Allegheny, N. C.

Kirkwood, Thomas Jermain. Prepared at Colgate University. Not settled.

MacMillan, John Angus, B. A. Graduated Park College, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. MacMillan has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church, Lima, N. Y.

Mendenhall, Frederic Leonard, B. A. University of West Virginia, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Mendenhall is going as a missionary to China under the Mission Board of the Church of Christ.

Neel, John William, B. A. Graduated Marietta College, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Neel has accepted a call to the pastorate of the church at Arlington, Baltimore, Md.

Palmer, Marion Boyd, B. A. Graduated Park College, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Palmer goes to Prince Royal College, Chieng Mai, Laos.

Reed, Robert B., B. A. Graduated Princeton University, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Reed goes as a teacher to the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria.

Schenck, Norman Craig, B. A. Graduated Princeton University, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Schenck is at Huntdale, N. C., working among the mountaineers.

Sharpe, John, B. A. Graduated Amherst College, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Sharpe is spending the summer at Nassau, Bahama Islands. He expects to begin his work as a Home Missionary in the Adirondacks in September.

Smith, Arnold, B. A. Graduated Park College, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Smith has received an appointment to Porto Rico under the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions.

Stewart, Harris Bates, B. A. Graduated Princeton University, '03;

Auburn, '06. Mr. Stewart has accepted a call to be assistant to Dr. Allen Macy Dulles, Second Presbyterian Church, Auburn, N. Y.

Stuart, Elmer J., B. A. Graduated Hamilton College, '03; Auburn, '06. Mr. Stuart has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Oneida Castle, N. Y.

J. A. MacMillan was ordained and installed as pastor of the church at Lima, May 24. A number of his classmates were present at this service; Professor Riggs gave the charge to the pastor and H. F. Gilt, '92, the charge to the people.

M. F. Allbright was ordained and installed at Lewiston, N. Y., June 19.

Several of the members of the class have been married since the close of the Seminary year :

Marion Boyd Palmer and Miss May Evans McClusky were married at Holland Patent, May 16.

Angus John MacMillan and Miss Marion Blanche Hibbard were married in Auburn, June 5.

Frank Owen Emerson and Miss Altie A. Kimberly were married, June 9, at Baldwinsville.

An occasional letter from an alumnus, not intended for publication, and for that reason all the more worth sharing with others, comes to the RECORD and finds its way into these columns. Such a letter is this of Charles T. Riggs, 1900:

BIBLE HOUSE, CONSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY.

The papers give me the totally unexpected news of the passing away of Dr. Darling; and I want to express to you and the rest of the Faculty my deep sense of personal loss, and my sympathy with you in your bereavement. Dr. Darling was a personal friend of each man in each class, so far as the men would allow him to be such; and perhaps no more so with me than with others; yet I feel as if he had shown a personal interest in me, even though we never kept up a correspondence. Occasional articles from his pen have always attracted me, not the less because of their rarity than because of their intrinsic stimulating value. But it was what he was, not what he wrote or even what he said, that made us all love him. And his place will be hard to fill. There are many students of theology, and not a few professors

of systematic theology; but as a man, and as an example, we shall have to look a long time before we find his equal.

Auburn has changed a good deal, even in the six short years since I left; but it has a very warm and permanent place of its own in my heart.

My own work here goes on very evenly, and although the progress is slow, there is real progress, and I am happier in it each year. My "problem" lies among the three hundred thousand Greeks of this city, and the still greater number of the vicinity, among whom I am the only Greek-speaking missionary, and there are only four Greek preachers. With best wishes for yourself personally, and for the welfare of the Seminary, and cordial greetings to the Faculty, I remain,

Yours as ever sincerely
CHARLES T. RIGGS.

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and the Promise of Christian Missions in the far East," Rev. William Elliott Griffis, D. D., LL. D., Ithaca.

May 9. Alumni Day.

10:00 Alumni meeting.

3:30 Memorial service for the Rev. Timothy Grenville Darling, D. D., late Richards Professor of Christian Theology. Memorial address by the Rev. John Sparhawk Jones, D. D., Philadelphia.

7:30 Meeting of Board of Directors. Sermon before the Alumni by the Rev. John Timothy Stone, '94, Baltimore, "Preach the Word."

9:00 Reception of Middle Class to the Seniors.

May 10. Meeting of Board of Directors.

12:00 Commencement address by Dr. Stewart.

1:30 Alumni dinner at Central Presbyterian Church.

Again we thank those whose pleasure it is to further the attractiveness of the Silliman Club House. Two very fine pictures have been given to the house which add much to the beauty and adornment of the rooms. Mr. Judd of the Senior class gave one of the pictures, which is a head of Dante Alighieri in brown. The other is a large portrait of President Stewart given by John Vaughn Axtell and John Sharpe. Not only as president of the Seminary is it fitting that Dr. Stewart's picture should be in this place but also, because his stay at the Club House last year made him an almost indispensable part of the life there.

MEETING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

The Board held two sessions, one on Wednesday evening and the other on Thursday morning. There were present the President of the Seminary, Edgar C. Leonard, Aaron P. Storrs, Charles E. Walbridge, J. Frederick Fitschen, Jr., Abbott Y. Wilcox, Charles P. Mosher, Arthur E. Brigden, Charles K. Scoon, Vernon N. Yergin, Frederick

H. Watkins, Fred H. Fay, George Underwood, M. Woolsey Stryker, George B. Massey, Charles N. Frost, Dana W. Bigelow. Seven members were absent, all of whom sent reasons for non-attendance.

The By-Laws which were reported by the committee on that subject as the result of its careful labor were adopted. The committee was continued.

Henry Wynans Jessup, Esq., of New York and Hon. Charles I. Avery of Auburn were elected to the Board. The following officers were chosen for one year. Hon. George Underwood, Vice-President; Hon. Charles I. Avery, Secretary; Mr. Levi S. Gates, Treasurer and Curator of Grounds and Buildings; Rev. Halsey B. Stevenson, Librarian.

The following committees were appointed: FINANCE-Fred H. Fay, George B. Massey, Charles P. Mosher, Chester C. Thorne, Robert Cluett; GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS-Charles E. Walbridge, M. Woolsey Stryker, George Underwood, Charles K. Scoon, Frederick H. Watkins, E. W. Edwards; CURRICULUM AND DISCIPLINEWilliam R. Taylor, Charles N. Frost, E. C. Leonard, V. N. Yergin, Arthur E. Brigden, Albert S. Bacon, Aaron P. Storrs; LIBRARY— J. Frederick Fitschen, Jr., Dana W. Bigelow, George Fairlee, John Bailey Kelly, Abbott Y. Wilcox.

The reports of the President, the Treasurer, the Committee on Examinations showed the condition of the Seminary to be excellent and the work of the year to be satisfactory. The report to the General Assembly was ordered. The Committee on the Curriculum was directed to nominate to the Board as early as practicable a successor to the late Professor Darling. Rev. Halsey B. Stevenson was continued as Instructor in Hebrew for another year. Rev. John M. Lamont, '04, and Rev. Neilson C. Hannay, '05, were granted the degree of B. D. in course. Mr. Frank O. Leonard, '07, was awarded the prize in Apologetics. The Committee on Grounds and Buildings was given power to erect a President's house as soon as it has secured $20,000 for that purpose. The Committee on the Endowment was continued and all other committees appointed by the former Boards of Commissioners and Trustees were discharged.

The thirty-fifth anniversary of the acceptance of the Chair of Hebrew Language and Literature by Prof. Willis J. Beecher was celebrated this year. The committee of the alumni submitted the following resolution which was accepted with great enthusiasm:

Inasmuch as this is the 35th anniversary of Dr. Beecher's induction into the Professorship of the Hebrew Language and Literature ;

We, the members of the alumni association of Auburn Theological Seminary feel that we cannot let the occasion pass without expressing

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