lessons, exercising a strong influence over all the children
with whom he came in contact. His character was that
of a thoroughly good man, and he was loved and most
highly respected by his friends and classmates. He was un-
selfish and thoughtful for others, always ready to excuse
their shortcomings, when they fell below his own standard of
what was right, and seemed excellently fitted for the ministry,
the profession which he had intended to pursue. There are
few men who die leaving the memory of so high a character

and so pure a life.
H. W.
ROBERT TALLANT.
Bom at San Francisco, California, October 29, 1856. Was
a member of 1877, and connected with our Class but a short
time in the Junior year, when he rejoined his own Class and
graduated with them.
Has been in business in San Francisco.
HERBERT TAPPAN.
Born at Boston, May 6, 1857. He was connected with our
Class Freshman year, and afterwards with the Class of '79,
graduating with them. ** I was in the office of the Burling-
ton & Missouri Eiver Railroad, in Nebraska, at Omaha,
until May, 1880. Since then I have been in the employ of
Andrew Onderdonk, the contractor for the section of the
Canadian Pacific between Port Moody and Savona Ferry, in
British Columbia. At present I am employed on sub-con-
tracts which I have received from Onderdonk & Co. I have
about a hundred Celestials working for me, and am kept
pretty busy looking after them.
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**I have also taken a twenty-thousand-dollar contract to
fence the line with barbed wire from Yala to Port Moody, a
distance of about ninety miles, and shall start work on it next
summer [1884]. So you see I have my hands full.
