COLLEGE NOTES
The following men have been elected officers of the club formed by the newspaper correspondents in Hanover: President, H. R. Bankart '09; vice-president, H. A. Osborne '09; secretary-treasurer, J. R. Everett '10.
The reservoir which supplies Hanover with water has been below level nearly all summer, though there has been at all times ample supply for ordinary use and fire protection.
Professors John K. Lord, G. D. Lord, C. D. Adams, and R. W. Husband were speakers at the fifty-fifth meeting of the New Hampshire State Teachers' Association, held at Manchester, October 16 and 17.
Prof. H. E. Keyes was one of the speakers at the meeting of the New Hampshire Association of Academy Teachers, at Tilton, November 20.
Owing to the resignation of Dr. C. N. Gould from the German department. Prof. E. H. Babbitt, Harvard '86, has been added to that branch of the faculty. Professor Babbitt has been a professor in German in the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., and before that an instructor in German at Columbia University.
At a meeting of the members of the Phillips Club, composed of the graduates of Phillips Andover and Phillips Exeter Academies, the following were elected officers: S. K. Bell '09, president; G. H. F. Kidder '10, vice-president; T. A. Smith '10, secretary; H. Chase '12, corresponding secretary for Exeter, and W. L. Biery '12, corresponding secretary for Andover.
A meeting of the Lawrence men in Dartmouth resulted in an organization with the following officers: E. P. Kelley '09, president; J. A. Scanlon II, vice-president; W. L. Taylor '10, treasurer; E. G. Horne '12, secretary.
John Harvey Dingle '10 was elected captain of the basketball team for the ensuing year at the first meeting of the team this fall. Dingle was selected to fill the vacancy of Captain-elect Lang who did not return to college. Dingle has played on the team two years, having made his letter in his first year.
Secretary E. M. Hopkins represented President Tucker at the exercises at Haverford College last month, in celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary.
President Tucker and Prof. F. H. Dixon were the Dartmouth representatives at the meeting of the Society of New England College Presidents held in Boston, October 29 and 30. Other members of the society are the presidents of Harvard, Yale, Vermont, Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Amherst, Trinity. Wesleyan, Tufts, Boston, and Clark.
The Athletic Council at its last meeting agreed that participation in the Princeton and Harvard games should be the only basis for the awarding of the "D" this year.
The old Patterson Homestead, directly back of Webster Hall, has been bought by the College. The house has been in the hands of the Patterson family for over sixty years and is one of the oldest houses in Hanover.
A H. Lord '10 won the college golf championship decisively by defeating Captain Stucklen '09 in the final round of the tournament, 3 up and 2 to play. Lord did not participate in the Hanover Country Club tournament, and when Stucklen defeated R. R. Gorton '10, winner of the country club event, by reason of this he was expected to prove a final winner. Lord, however, played great golf against Stucklen, while the latter had a tendency to be erratic.
