WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION

The only fixed event of the Washington Association is the annual meeting which is held the latter part of January or early in February as best suits the convenience of the President of the College, whose presence is always a great treat to the Association and serves to bring a good many additional members to the meetings.

By reason of Dartmouth men in public life and the Dartmouth men connected with the school system of the city, the Association has quite a nucleus of prominent people. The balance of the Association is made up of doctors, lawyers, some private school teachers, clerks occupying quite responsible positions in the Departments in the higher grades and a few (very few in fact) of the strictly leisure class.

About twenty per cent of the Association are members of the University Club and three members were leading spirits in the organization and establishment of that institution, which is now in its second year, very prosperous and successful. The governing bodies of the University Club are a Council and an Admissions Committee and on each of these important bodies Dartmouth has a representative. Yale and Harvard are the only other colleges similarly honored.

It is very likely that a smoker will be given during November at the University Club and it is quite likely that the younger set in the Association who have graduated since 1890 will arrange for regular monthly meetings through the winter.

The local Association numerically is one of the largest in town, comprising upwards of one hundred members, and a larger percentage of the membership attends the annual meetings and other functions of the Association than probably is the case with any other local alumni association. Upwards of fifty per cent always turn out, while the other associations are fortunate if they get twenty-five per cent of their membership.

Secretary, Henry P. Blair '89, 213 E. Capitol St.