The solid facts of History, Grammar and Mathematics were set before the students to be learned, and they were; they were taught that there is a right way and a wrong way; "pretty good" obtained no consideration. The discipline was exacting, body and mind equally trained in strength and intelligence, for which the speaker expressed much gratitude. In conclusion he said: "We learned, too, what was going on; after school we went to the State House, and listened to the debates in the Senate and House of Representatives. We were all Whigs to a man! We old boys now believe that all the good there is in the present parties has trickled down from the old Whigs." Wm. W. Doherty, the President-elect, expressed briefly his appreciation of the honor conferred by his election, and his abiding faith in the permanent existence of the Association. George H. Worthley of Brookline, called up memories of boyhood days in a happy way. Standing beside the chair of Dr. Everett he related how he had listened to the eloquent speeches of the schoolmaster's father, the Hon. Edward Everett. Wm. Fuller Tufts, President of the Training Field School Association of Charlestown, in a very entertaining manner recalled the days when his comrades went "laggardly" to their lessons, and how eagerly they resumed their sport when the session ended. Letters were read from Mayor Collins, Hon. John D. Long and Hon. Harvey N. Shepard. The exercises were closed with singing by the hundred members in attendance, of Dr. Smith's "Memories." In Demon! WILLIAM CHARLES LAY ton. December 3, 1816, a 5, 1902. In his seventh year h School on Fort Hill, and gr ing a Franklin Medal. He with his father, who was a years he was bookkeeper manufacturer of stoves and . When but sixteen years of the Cataract Erne (2 serve in the Boston many years. He w men's Association ne He was a Custod » many years. He is siastic devotion to the Boys' Association, member and direct death its secretary high esteem by a ̈· acter, and was the stantial tokens o illness which ende "And mis As " Remen And |