Herewith the time of publication of the alumni

periodical is changed from once in two months to once a month. This step is taken in accordance with the intention from the beginning to shorten the intervals between the appearances of the magazine as soon as it should be certain that it had become established in favor with the graduates of the College. It is necessary to change the name to conform with the more frequent issue, but otherwise the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE is not different from the DARTMOUTH BI-MONTHLY except as experience has shown the road to improvement.

The one hundred and thirty-ninth opening of Dartmouth College took place on Thursday, September twenty-fourth, at Webster Hall, with the usual morning chapel service and the annual address by the President.

The Registrar's office authorizes the following enrollment of students:

Seniors 208 Juniors 251 Sophomores 327 Freshmen 332 ____ Total enrollment of undergraduates 1118 Enrollment of graduate students chiefly in the associated schools 122 ____ Total enrollment 1240

This is an increase of twenty-one in the total enrollment over last year. The freshman class shows a falling off of twenty-five from last year's figures. The financial stringency not only affected the large number of Freshmen who were admitted but could not enter, but also it cut heavily into the membership of the three upper classes,-one hundred and five men in these classes having been unable to return.

The following facts are given out from the Dean's office in reference to the entering class. From the number of those applying by examination or through certificate, twenty withdrew during the examinations and thirty-six were rejected. Forty-five who were admitted did not enter, chiefly for financial reasons. Of the total number admitted, sixty-eight per cent were without conditions, a somewhat larger proportion than heretofore. No special students have been admitted during the past five years.

The geographical distribution of the entering class is:

Massachusetts 142 Minnesota 4 New Hampshire 57 Michigan 3 New York 31 Indiana 2 Vermont 23 Maryland 2 Illinois 18 District Columbia 1 Connecticut 9 Texas 1 Maine 8 Colorado 1 Ohio 8 Nebraska 1 Pennsylvania 8 lowa 1 Rhode Island 5 France 1 New Jersey 5 Mexico 1

In the faculty Professor Dixon and Mr. Barton return after an absence of a year. Professors Foster and Proctor and Mr. Day are away for the present year. New appointments to the instruction corps are :

Professor James W. Goldthwait, assistant professor of geology, A.B. Harvard 1902, A.M. Harvard 1903, Ph.D. Harvard 1906; for the past four years at Northwestern University as instructor and assistant professor.

Professor Eugene F. Clark, assistant professor of German, A.B. Dartmouth 1901, A.M. Dartmouth 1905; teacher of German at the DeMerritte School until 1906; from 1906 until his appointment studying in Germany and at the Harvard Graduate School. Mr. Paul Nixon, instructor in Latin and Greek, A.B. Wesleyan 1904, A.M. Wesleyan 1905; Rhodes Scholar at Oxford from Connecticut 1904-1907; instructor at Princeton 1907-1908.

Mr. Arthur H. Basye, instructor in history, A.B. University of Kansas 1904, A.M. University of Kansas 1906; has taught in the Parsons, Kansas, high school, and for the last two years has been a graduate student of history at Yale University.

Mr. Charles P. Huse, instructor in economics, A.B. Harvard 1904, A.M. Harvard 1905, Ph.D. Harvard 1907; substituted at Williams last year.

Mr. Albert Davis, instructor in English, A.B. Columbia 1903, Ph.D. Cornell 1906; instructor in English at Wesleyan for the last two years.

Mr. Albert H. Licklider, instructor in English, A.B. Randolph-Macon 1897, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1907; has taught in preparatory schools, and for two years has been instructor at Johns Hopkins.

Mr. Henry M. Wells, instructor in French, A.B. Harvard 1905 ; student at University of Bruxelles 1900-01; student at University of Lille 1906-07; teacher in English and French at University School, Chicago, 1907-08.

Mr. Rupert E. L. Kittredge, instructor in French, A.B. Harvard 1907, A.M. Harvard 1908.

Mr. Eugene H. Babbitt, instructor in German, A.B. Harvard 1886; at universities of Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen 1886-87, 1889-90; at various times instructor at Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia, and Rutgers; professor in University of the South 1900-1903.

Mr. Leland Griggs, instructor in biology, A.B. Dartmouth 1902, Ph.D. Dartmouth 1908 ; has been assistant in biology at Dartmouth, and for two years professor of zoology vat Doane College.

Assistants in physics have been appointed as follows :

R. R. Tileston, Dartmouth A.B. 1907. Since graduation Mr. Tileston has been transitman on the Massachusetts electric railways.

C. L. Coggins, B.S. '07, Rhode Island College ; assistant in physics in the Ohio State University, 1907-08.

P. M. Batchelder, Dartmouth A.B. '08.

Harlan T. Stetson, Brown University, Ph.B. '08, with special advanced work in astronomy, physics, and mathematics.

The trustees have recently taken action in regard to what is known as the "Associated Schools" looking toward a closer identification with the College, The Medical School which was established in 1796 has been at various times practically detached from the College. A few years since it was more formally taken over by the trustees —the curriculum lengthened to four years with additions otherwise made to the school. Recently the material equipment of the school has been very much increased through the building of the Nathan Smith Laboratory, and through changes in the requirements for admission. Though most of the medical students have been graduates of colleges, the requirement is now absolute that two years of college work in specified courses must be presented. It has also been made possible for a college student looking toward the degree of B.S. to matriculate in the Medical School at the beginning of his junior year, though still carrying certain college courses. A candidate for the degree of A.B. must take the full four years course except in unusual cases where he may matriculate at the beginning of senior year.

The Thayer School of Civil Engineering founded by General Sylvanus Thayer, "The father of the Military Academy at West Point," has been in charge of a self-perpetuating Board of Overseers, chiefly of West Point men. The trustees have had charge of the funds of the school. Hereafter there will be a closer relationship between the two boards, both in respect to the raising of funds for the school and in administration.

On the other hand the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, which was one of the first schools to insist upon graduate work for college students going into business, has been given a more definite organization. The dividing line between advanced economics and courses in the school has been more clearly established and the Tuck School faculty has been more thoroughly unified. A much larger proportion of the faculty no longer does any work immediately related to the College.

These various schools, though closely affiliated with the College and under the general management of the trustees, are not regarded or treated as the nucleus of a university.

By the will of the late John Wyman Jones '41, who died in 1906, a bequest of $7000 was left in the hands of President Tucker and Judge Cross to be used in the purchase of a. memorial to the class of 1841. It was decided to use the money in the purchase of bronze doors for Webster Hall. With the advice of the College architect, Mr. C. A. Rich '75, the sculptural work has been executed by Mr. Wm. H. Mosman of Chicopee, Mass. The doors are now being put into place — the center doors in Webster Hall. Tile doors are plain, heavily panelled, and will open out, swinging on pivots. On the inside have been inscribed the names of all the members of the class of 1841. The whole effect is most pleasing and the stately beauty of Webster Hall is enhanced, while the doors are in themselves a worthy memorial to the class.

When Rollins Chapel was built, the organ was given by Mr. Harold C. Bullard, of the class of 1884. The chapel being in process of considerable enlargement, Mr. Bullard has now doubled his original gift, which virtually doubles the capacity of the organ. The organ will be transferred to the south side of the chapel, occupying the space of two recesses or bays in the extension. When completed it will add greatly to the musical service of morning and Sunday evening chapel.

For several years during the late 60's and 70's, the Honorable John E. Parsons of New York spent his summers at Hanover. He was very much interested in the College Park, which was then beginning to show some of the results of the gift of Chief Justice Parker in stocking the Park with trees from Northern Europe. At that time, also before the erection of buildings to the south, Observatory Hill was a favorite point for the view of Ascutney. In passing through Hanover this summer, Mr. Parsons recalled his former visits and very generously left a check of $1,000 to be expended in the care of the Park. While the charm of the Park lies in its naturalness, very much can be done through a little forestry and engineering to make the approaches to it more attractive and the Park itself more available. Work will be begun this fall to be completed in the early spring.

The picture of New Hampshire Hall, shown on another page, gives an impression, though not an adequate one, of the attractiveness of this newest of the dormitories of the College. It is built in colonial style, gabled and in the shape of the letter U. The building stands on the south side of Wheelock St., east of the Library and directly in front of the Heating Station, with its face toward the north. In the front of the main part of the building is a terrace of fancy brick with a Jimestone parapet wall. The new dormitory is fireproof in construction, with steel beams and columns, concrete floors, and iron stairways. The corridors on the four floors are finished in oak with birch flooring. Electric lighting and steam heat will come from the central plant. The building has 57 rooms accomodating 107 men. There are nine single apartments, 46 suites for two, and two suites for three men. Prices range from $60 per man to $115, with an average of $85. Eight rooms on each of the first three floors, and six on the fourth have fireplaces. There are no alcove bedrooms. Each floor has two large and generously equipped bathrooms, with four shower baths.

With the growth of Dartmouth, the time came long ago when the need of a gymnasium was imperative. Laboratories, recitation halls, and dormitories have been added to the equipment and the number of students has constantly become greater, but no added facilities for physical development have been found, except through organized athletics, beyond what was available when the College was a quarter its present size. Through the generosity of a friend the community has been enriched by a most excellent hospital, connected with the Medical School. The College has established and maintains an isolation hospital for contagious diseases. The entire water-shed about the reservoir has been acquired at large expense, that there should not be even remote danger of contamination of the water supply. A medical director constantly watches over the health of the College. A physical director gains unusual results with the equipment at hand. But the fact stands that in spite of all that has been done to preserve health or to care for sickness, adequate provision is not made for the health of twelve hundred young men when no sufficient gymnasium facilities are provided in a town like Hanover, which has a four mouths indoor season. Neither inter-collegiate nor within-the-college athletics are for all men, and they cannot be made to be. Naturally a gymnasium would help athletics, but that is not the greater argument. For the sake of the College as a whole, for the sake of each individual man of the College, a new gymnasium is a necessity. Fortunately recognition of this has come. A strong committee has been formed and active work is beginning.

As the matter now stands one man in each of the classes from '85 has charge of all the subscriptions from his class. The plan is to collect first from the younger alumni, and when they have shown what they can do, to appeal to those coming before '85. To make the movement a success all the classes from '85 up should average at least $3,000. Committees have been appointed for the classes now in College and the active campaign'for subscriptions will commence at once. Subscriptions are to be made payable on or before Feb. 1, '09. If more convenient for the donors they may be paid in two installments. Mr. C. P. Chase, treasurer of the College, will be treasurer of the fund, and all donations should be paid to him or to Doctor Bowler. The great hope of those having charge of the fund is to get the new gymnasium completed by the fall of 1909. To do this ground must be broken next spring, but before actual work can be commenced $75,000 in cash must be on hand.

The gymnasium will cost $125,000, considerably more than originally planned. It will be built of re-enforced cement, and will follow the Roman round arch type of architecture, with simple strong lines. The accompanying cut shows fully the grace and strength of the structure. The building will be located at the north end of the athletic field.

The entrance will be at the north, nearly opposite the Alpha Delta Phi house. The gymnasium will be absolutely unique, in that it will contain under one structure, complete facilities both for regular gymnastic and physical exercises, and for preliminary training and development in all branches of college athletics.

The building will consist of a ground floor, first floor, and second story. The main building will be 200 feet long and 80 feet wide, and will lie north and south.

The first floor contains upon entering. a large trophy hall, 65 feet deep by 80 feet wide and 21 feet high, with heavy beamed ceilings and with fireplaces on each side. That this trophy hall will contain practically the same number of square feet as the present gymnasium, will furnish some idea of the magnitude of the new building. To the south of the trophy hall lies the locker room, which will be fitted with modern steel lockers with perfect shower bath and toilet facilities and drying rooms. Special separate apartments are provided for visiting teams, with private lockers, showers and toilets. Similar accommodations are provided for home teams.

The second floor will be approached by double staircases toward the north end, and will have smaller staircases in the south end, leading down to the locker room and shower baths. This floor will be the gymnasium floor proper and will consist of a room 80 feet wide by 200 feet long. Here a gymnasium class of several hundred men may be exercising while at the same time there is still ample room left for two indoor tennis courts.

The ground floor is 110 feet wide north and south, and 360 feet long east and west and is divided into three parts. The central part is 8 feet high and is under the first floor. This space will be given up to necessary storerooms for all kinds of gymnastic and athletic apparatus, and may eventually be used as a swimming tank. It does not seem wise to undertake to raise funds for such a tank at this time. The eastern and western of the ground floor are 40 feet high and are really wings to the main building. In the west wing there will be a regulation size baseball diamond on dirt. There will be ample room left for field events, running broad jump take off, with dirt pit and dirt run, a section devoted to shotputting, another to pole-vaulting, running high jump, etc. The floor of this entire wing will be of dirt. The east wing will afford sufficient space for six handball courts, each 40 feet by 20 feet, two squash tennis courts 40 feet by 25 feet. Within these wings and running under the first floor of the main building and thus surrounding the entire ground floor will be a dirt running track 10 feet wide and 8 laps to the mile. This track will allow two stretches of 120 yards, each straight away, for the use of sprinters and hurdlers. Directly over this track in each wing will be a gallery at the same level as the floor in the gymnasium hall, i. e., the second floor of the main building. By the use of sliding doors opening at four points into the gymnasium hall, this gallery may be used as an 8-lap board track.

The entire building is designed so as to give the very largest and best light and ventilation, and under the one roof can be accommodated practice in baseball, basketball, tennis, handball, squash tennis, track and field athletics, and gymnastics, in which the entire student body can take part at the same time.

In making these plans special stress has been laid upon the necessity for a good trophy room. This will be one of the chief features of the building. It will be the treasure room of Dartmouth's athletic trophies, photographs, and records; a history of Dartmouth's victories on diamond, track, and gridiron. But besides these trophies will appear the names of all the men who helped make the new gymnasium possible. Each class will have an allotted space, and within this space, upon the white enamelled bricks, will be stamped the names of the members of the class who helped in the good work. Non-graduates will have bricks with the class in which they entered College. The names of contributors not otherwise connected with the College will be grouped on tablets of marble or bronze.

THE PROPOSED NEW GYMNASIUM