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��nal Office and Surgeon-General's Of- fice, three each ; Bureau of Education, two ; Agricultural Department, Indian Office, Land Office, Patent Office, Postmaster-General's Office, and U. S. Coast Survey, one each.

During the late war thirteen served in the army and one in the navy. Nine have been connected with the House of Representatives in various state legislatures, while four have been connected with the Senate. Previous to their present occupations one was an Adjutant and Quarter-master Gen- eral ; one an appointment clerk in the Department of the Interior ; two are cashiers of banks ; one a centennial commissioner ; one a chaplain of the Massachusetts House of Representa- tives ; one chief clerk of the Interior Department ; one chief clerk of the Pension Office ; two city solicitors ; one Deputy Collector of Customs ; one Commissioner of Sinking Fund; one county solicitor ; one disbursing clerk of the Interior Department ; two in drug store business ; eight editors, or connected with newspapers ; three farmers ; one one of the founders of the N. H. Historical Society ; one a governor ot Maine ; one principal of the Illinois Normal School ; one in- spector of Boston Custom House ; sixteen lawyers ; one manager of a manufacturing company ; two mayors ; three ministers ; one a Paymaster in the U. S. Army; four physicians ; one Probate Judge ; five professors in col- leges ; one register ; one Sanitary In- spector ; one Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives ; one su- perintendent of copper mines ; one superintendent of freedmen ; three superintendents of schools ; one sur- geon ; two assistant surgeons ; three trustees of institutions of learning, one of them being Dartmouth ; one U. S. Commissioner ; one U. S. Consul ; one U. S. District Attorney ; one Deputy U. S. Marshal ; one water registrar.

The present professions are classed as follows, some performing double

��duty : One chief clerk in Bureau of Education ; one chief clerk in the pension office ; twenty-seven clerks in the various departments ; one Com- missioner of Education ; one Dean of the preparatory department at Howard University ; three editors, or newspaper correspondents ; ten lawyers ; one a retired lawyer ; three members of Congress ; two ministers ; two in Gov- ernment libraries ; two paymasters in the navy ; two physicians ; one prin- cipal of Washington high school ; one professor at the Naval Observatory ; three solicitors of patents ; one super- intendent of the Government Asylum for Insane ; one superintendent of schools ; two supervisors of schools ; eight teachers.

At the recent reunion and dinner, Col. George Kent, '14, replied to the toast : " Early and later examples of the rhyming art in connection with Dartmouth," by reading a hymn and ode composed by him for the 4th of July celebration at Hanover, N. H., in 1814; "A Song of Degrees," written for the centennial celebration of Dart- mouth in July, 1869, but not delivered, owing to a great storm interrupting Judge Barrett just as he commenced to read it, and it has never been pub- lished before ; a monody, in remem- brance of Daniel Webster, the great expounder of the constitution, and Dartmouth's most honored son, and written for the observance of Webster's centennial birth-day anniversary at Dartmouth College, June 28, 1S82.

The following extract from a letter written to Col. Kent by Fred. Chase, Esq., treasurer of the college, will ex- plain how the hymn and ode came to light :

" My Dear Sir :

I take pleasure in sending herewith the copy you desired of the Hymn and Ode written by you for the -1th of July celebration, 1814. 1 take it from a newspaper fragment, which I suppose to be the Concord Gazette, Ac."

[Col. Kent's contributions will appear in the April number of GRANITE Monthly.— Ed.]

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