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agriculture; Secretary Hoover of
commerce; Secretary
Davis of labor, and fifteen residents
of Marion.
Plans have already been perfected for
raising the
funds for the Harding Memorial, and
before this issue
of the QUARTERLY reaches our readers the necessary
contributions will have been
subscribed.
DR. T. C. MENDENHALL ENTERTAINS FIRST
CLASS
TO ENTER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, who delivered the
annual
address published in this issue of the QUARTERLY and
whose life sketch and contributions
appear in previous
issues, sole surviving member of the
first faculty of
the Ohio State University, entertained
surviving stu-
dents who entered at the first opening
of that institu-
tion on the occasion of his visit to
Columbus to attend
the annual meeting of the Society. The following
account of the reunion appeared in the Ohio
State
Lantern of October 3:
A reunion of the first class and members
of the faculty of
Ohio State was held on the campus
September 17. It was the
occasion of the University's
semi-centennial, and eight of the
nine living members of the initial
class, which consisted of
seventeen students, came back to revive
old memories.
The group was entertained by Dr. Thomas
C. Mendenhall,
member of the first faculty and now
president of the University
board of trustees, assisted by President
Thompson and Dr.
Edward Orton, Jr., the latter the son of
the first president of
the University.
The party gathered at University Hall on
the semi-centen-
nial day and were then taken for a tour
of the campus.
With what was in their memory and before
their eyes,
those first students passed from
building to building marveling
at what time can do. They were
entertained at the home of
Dr. Thompson by Dr. Mendenhall, and
later a reception was
given them at the Archaeological Museum.
Here was presented