W. T. Piper '74 died of tonsilitis at the Massachusetts Homoeopathetic Hospital in Boston, of which he was a trustee, July 25, after an illness of two weeks.

Mr. Piper was graduated from the Boston Latin School and Harvard University, class of 1874, and took a post-graduate course at Trinity College in Cambridge, England. He served two years in the Cambridge Common Council and one year as alderman and from 1891 until the new charter was adopted as member of the School Committee. He also served two years as trustee of the Cambridge Public Library.

He was director of the Cambridge Trust Company and president of the Avon Home for Children. He belonged to the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, the Union Club of Boston, and the Oakley Country Club.

William G. Babcock '41.

Rev. W. G. Babcock '41, one of the two surviving members of that class, died at his home in Dorchester July 30, from debility due to old age. He was 91 years old. Mr. Babcock, although active up to a few weeks ago, had suffered from a fall which he had about a year ago and death was due to the weakening effect of the injuries received at that time. At his birthday reception, June 1, the old gentleman was apparently in fine health, but since that day his decline had been rapid.

W. G. Babcock entered the English High School at the age of twelve and was graduated in 1835. At Harvard he was a classmate of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. He received honors both in the College and in the Divinity School, from which he was also graduated.

His first pastorate was in Providence, in 1844, where he stayed until 1847, the year of his marriage, when he moved to Lunenburg. Afterwards he had parishes in Harvard, South Natick, and Scituate. In 1865 he was called to the Warren Street Chapel in Boston, succeeding Rev. Charles F. Barnard of the Harvard class of 1828. After eighteen years there he took up duties at the Appleton Street Chapel, giving up his work because of deafness in 1869. He had lived in Dorchester since 1877. In early life he was a friend of Rev. William Ellery Channing.

George Faulkner '44.

Dr. George Faulkner '44, one of the old-time physicians of Jamaica Plain, died at his home on August 27 at the age of ninety-two years. He had been retired from active practice for a number of years.

George Faulkner received instruction at the academies in Billerica and in Westford, and at the age of fifteen he entered a store in Boston. Becoming dissatisfied with trade, he abandoned this line after three years, and devoted himself to study. He spent a year and a quarter at the academy at Leicester, and one year at Phillips Exeter Academy, and entered Harvard with his class as a Freshman. During his College life he taught school each winter.

Upon his graduation he went to Keene, N. H., and spent one year with the famous surgeon, Dr. Amos Twichell, completing his medical studies in Boston.