COLLEGE NOTES

The Eastern New York State Club, founded last year, has reorganized with a membership of twenty men. All students who live within a radius of fifty miles of Albany are eligible. During the holidays the club is scheduled to hold a theater party and banquet in Albany. Officers are-: President, R. D. Meredith '10; vice-president, B. C. Miller '10; secretary-treasurer, A. S. Hatch '10.

The annual.holiday trip of the musical clubs has been abandoned this year owing to the inability of several members to tour. A more extensive trip than usual is promised for Easter.

Freshman gymnasium classes have started, but owing to the inadequacy of the floor space to accommodate all the members of the class, only two exercises are held per week in place of three of last year. Spring work on the track on the Oval will be instituted to make up for this loss, two weeks of track work being required of every Freshman.

Series of basketball games have been arranged between the members of the Thayer and Tuck Schools, while plans for a league among the eating-clubs in town are being formulated.

Jess B. Hawley has been elected to fill the place in the Palaeopitus left vacant by Benjamin Lang.

The Christian Association has been making plans for an extensive Bible study course to be held on Sunday afternoons. Nearly five hundred men are expected to take part in the work which starts immediately after the holidays.

Following the custom of last year, and responding to the interest evident among the undergraduates, the College Club gave a detailed account of the Harvard-Yale game as received in the gymnasium by special wire. The reports were well handled and the attendance was rather large.

"In Chancery," a four-act comedy by Arthur Wing Pinero, is the play to be presented by the dramatic club this year. Thirteen men will be carried on the cast.

The engagement of Julius Arthur Brown '02, assistant professor in physics, to Miss Helen Elizabeth Conner, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has been announced. Professor Brown is the son of President Francis Brown of the Union Theological Seminary of New York, and in addition to his Dartmouth A.B. degree also holds that of A.M. He was, further, the first Dartmouth man to be a Rhodes scholar. Miss Conner is a daughter of Dr. Phineas S. Conner '59, a professor emeritus of surgery in the Medical School.

The Official Basketball Guide picks Brady of Dartmouth as guard on the all New England team. In ranking which is not confined to New England, Dartmouth is placed fourth.

Prof. H. H. Home spoke on the subject of "What is Art," before the meeting of the New England Association of School Superintendents, held at the Boston Latin School recently.

William M. Wherry, Jr., of Wherry and Morgan, Attorneys, New York City, specialists on public service corporations, recently delivered a series of lectures to the men of the Tuck School. Monday,' November 30, he spoke on the subject, "Regulation of Public Utilities." In the evening of the same day he followed with, "A Day with the Public Service Commission," and on Tuesday with, "Problems of. the Investor."

Prof. C. D. Adams has lately become one of the managing editors of the Classical Journal, a magazine published by the Classical Associations of the Middle West, the South, and New England.

An innovation in hockey practice in order to get around unfavorable weather was instituted this season when the hockey men took possession of the gym floor and practiced shooting the puck.

Seventeen fraternity initiation banquets were held in Hanover between the 5th and 19th of December.

The report of Professor Poor of the Shattuck Observatory, is that the last month has been the warmest November since 1902 and the dryest since 1904. The mean temperature has been 35 degrees, the lowest 27 degrees, and the highest 43 degrees.

A four and a half mile blind handicap cross country race held in Hanover, December 3, was won by Baxter '10; second, Noyes '11 ; third, Plummer '12. The fifteen starters all finished in good shape. The object of the track management is to develop interest in a cross-country team to take part in the intercollegiate meets, and with this end in view it is hoped to mske the race an annual affair.

Dr. John Bowler, Athletic Director of the College, has opened an office on Main street as a practicing physician.

At a recent meeting of the White River Medical Society, Dr. J. M. Gile and Dr. W. T. Smith delivered papers on the subject of "Tuberculosis."

Professors J. K. Lord and L. H. Dow were the Dartmouth men present at the funeral of Dean J. H. Wright of Harvard University, Dartmouth '73, held at Cambridge, Saturday,. November 28.

The men to be on the Dartmouth teams in the Triangular Debating League are to be chosen in a series of final debates to be held directly after Christmas. The twenty-eight men now on the squad are to be narrowed down to eight. It has been definitely settled that the debates of the league will be held the night of March 4.

R. L. Theller has been "unanimously elected president of the College Club for the year 1908-1909.

The fourteen men in College from the University High School of Chicago have formed a club for the purpose of maintaining the percentage of the school's men who come to Dartmouth. The officers chosen were: M. M. Follansbee '09, president; W. H. Patterson '09, vice-president; H. K. Urion '12; secretary and treasurer.

Fourteen candidates for freshman hockey appeared at the first call, and Captain Leighton of the varsity appointed G. P. Bullard temporary captain. The Freshmen, in addition to practicing the fundamentals of the game, offer a daily scrimmage with the varsity.

The DARTMOUTH at a recent board meetig determined that an assistant business manager should be added to the board, thus bringing the number of members up to twelve. The board will hereafter consist of four Seniors, four Juniors, two Sophomores, and a business manager from the senior class with an assistant manager from the junior class.