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Show Dear Classmates:- We all are probably finding it harder to tell just what we are doing now than we did last June to tell what we wanted or planned to do. This is supposed to be personal, however, not preaching. I am traveling almost all the time, visiting the colleges, twenty-two of them, city and railroad associations, and the smaller towns in the interests of the Y. M. C. A. work. Des Moines is my headquarters, and I get there for a day or two of office work, generally about once in three weeks. The work of the college association is familiar to all '98ers, while in the city associations, my work consists specially in trying to organize and build up Bible study and Educational Classes. The work gives me a good opportunity to find out what others besides alumni think of Iowa College, "new departures and all," and why they hold the opinions they do. I have also been fortunate enough to see for a few minutes nearly thirty-five members of the class since last June, and have carried salutations around from each one to the rest of the class. All whom I have seen look singularly happy at present, and with the exception of the "old stand-bys" and Charley Mullan all look prospectively so. If there is any one who doesn't agree that we completed only a preliminary course of education when we entered the body of alumni of Iowa College, I should be glad to hear from him. Yours sincerely, BENJ. C. MARSH. Grinnell, Iowa, Jan. 24, 1899. |
