Rogers '62; Oldest Alumnus, Took Orders from Lincoln on Leaving College; Is Still Active

Henry M. Rogers '62, oldest alumnus of Harvard College, yesterday east back over his activities of the last 97 years and his experiences as Union soldier, writer, world traveler, and lawyer. Rogers is still active in a Boston law firm, and keeps in close touch with the world, regretting that he can not work more than 24 hours a day.

After leaving college, he "took orders from Lincoln," until the end of the Civil War, and then went into newspaper and law work. The two most valuable abilities of a newspaper man, Rogers says, are accuracy, and the ability to make a reader see and feel as the reporter does.

He has recently published several books, the best known of which is "Memoirs of Ninety Years." Tomorrow his latest book, a collection of verse, will be on sale.

In his more active days, Rogers has travelled in India, China, "and way stations", and now keeps in touch with far places by radio. When listening to King George's recent Jubilee Address, he was reminded of the occasion on which the present King's father, then the Prince of Wales, visited Harvard as an Oxford student. Rogers carried the baton to keep the 99 members of this class in order.

The records of the class of '62 are all permanently preserved, as a result of his care in the crypt in Widener Library. In the Rogers Memorial Room on the seventh floor there are also a number of books and documents relating to Harvard of the latter nineteenth century which he has collected and preserved.