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presented this trophy to Andrew L. Wilkinson, 1928 president, with instructions for putting it into competition, including an annual showing by the class having the goat's head in its possession. For three years there were lively class scraps over the trophy. Then it was withdrawn, to be established as a prize for award to the class that achieved the highest pointscore in intramural activities.

Several changes occurred in the personnel of the Board of Trustees between 1927 and 1931, some of which were of major significance. Death took from the Board men whom the Institute could ill afford to lose. Most deeply mourned was Charles G. Washburn. He died May 25, 1928, while attending a church diocese meeting at Springfield. For more than fifty of his seventy-one years he had been one of the most vigorous and helpful alumni and trustees, serving in various capacities: Alumni Association president, first graduate trustee, treasurer and president of the Corporation. Only rarely had he missed attending alumni reunions, at which he was always a welcome and stimulating speaker. He was also beloved by many generations of students, at whose assemblies and banquets he had often been the principal speaker. For many years, too, he had presented to honor graduates the Graduate Aid prizes, always with laudatory remarks about the Stephen Salisbury who had endowed them. A memorial service for Dr. Washburn, with addresses by Dr. Haynes and Dr. Gage, was held in Sinclair Chapel in June, 1929.

In the same year, the Institute lost another sterling son and active trustee, Clifton H. Dwinnell. He was only fifty-five when he died, March 13, 1928, yet for several years he had been one of the most able bankers of New England. He was president of the great First National Bank of Boston, a trustee of numerous institutions, yet he found time to give generously to service for the Institute, particularly in directing the 1920 Endowment campaign.

Henry J. Fuller, '95, was elected a life member of the Board to succeed Dr. Washburn. On nomination of the Alumni

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