CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION

The Dartmouth alumni in Connecticut are glad to have the opportunity to communicate with the general body of the alumni and with the College through the columns of THE DARTMOUTH BI-MONTHLY, for they have, long held the position of pioneers and frontiersmen, and Dartmouth news is by no means plenty. This Association is upon the outskirts of Dartmouth's sphere of influence and is right on the stamping ground of Yale.

For years it struggled along, a few attending the meetings of the New York Alumni Association, still fewer attending the Boston Alumni meetings, the great majority attending neither and hearing from the old College only infrequently and indirectly. Such was the condition when John R. Perkins, '89, came to Connecticut with a spirit as redoubtable as that with which Eleazar Wheelock left it. It is a pleasure to say that Perkins is still with the Association and is a power in the department of education. With indefatigable energy, and in the face of great discouragement he roused enough of the Dartmouth Spirit to found and permanently establish the Connecticut Association in 1901, since which time annual meetings have been held in Hartford on the third Friday in January, or as near that date as circumstances would permit.

Last spring the Association suffered a great loss in the death of its president, Henry L. Slack, '72. More men of his stamp are needed.

The Connecticut Association has not yet the age nor such a membership roll as some of the other Associations, but it has some of the real Dartmouth men, — men who can do and are doing things; men who neither fear nor favor; men whose spirit has come down to them from the past. And with these as a nucleus, it is the aim of the Association to wake the alumni of this state from the lethargic sleep into which they have fallen during so long a period of isolation, and keep alive the same spirit which the grand old Founder of the College took to Hanover from Connecticut.

Secretary, Albion B. Wilson '95, 36 MahlAve., Hartford, Conn.