COLLEGE NOTES
Since the announcements of chinning day the following men have been issued invitations by fraternities: Alpheus Dixi Crosby '10, by Kappa Kappa Kappa; Conrad Edwin Snow '12, Leslie Whitmore Snow '12, by Theta Delta Chi; John Wells Noyes '11, James Alfred Steen '12, by Beta Theta Pi; Harold Charles Bond '11, Harold Edwin Foreman '09, by Sigma Chi; Bernard Francis McCarthy 'll, by Phi Kappa Psi; Harold Hale Murchie '09, by Phi Gamma Delta; George Francis Dwinell '11, by Delta Tau Delta; William Edward Carroll '11, by Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Harold Johnson March '10, Dudley Wells Redfield '12, by Phi Sigma Kappa; Joseph Nairn Paul, by Kappa Sigma.
Chi chapter of Chi Phi gave its annual banquet to the chapters of the fraternity in New England at the White River Tavern, Saturday evening, February 20. Some sixty members of the fraternity were present. This included the active chapter and graduates with the representatives of the other chapters.
M. Follansbee '09, H B. Whitcomb '09, H. Reed '10, E. Shattuck '10, and J. S. McGonagle '11, attended the Aloha Delta Phi convention at Albany, N. Y., February 18 and 19, from the Dartmouth chapter.
By the will of Mrs. Isabel M. Fowler of Jamaica Plain, Mass., the College has been bequeathed $3000. The gift is to be known as the Josiah Minot Scholarship, in memory of the giver's father, the income to be used to pay the tuition of some worthy student.
Announcemeut has been made by the Dartmouth Camera Club that the exhibit of the Intercollegiate Photographic Association, of which Dartmouth is a member, will be shown in Hanover April 19-25. The pictures of the association will also be shown at Pennsylvania, Harvard, Michigan, and Wisconsin universities.
The annual May conference of the teachers of the fitting schools most closely connected with the College will be held in Hanover May 13-15. The general topic for discussion "this year will be on the requirements for admission to the College. A definite program has not yet been announced by the association.
Professor Emery of the English department has announced the subject of the essays to be offered in competition for the Grimes prizes open to members of the Senior class: "The Relative Permanency of Values in Tennyson and Browning," "Old Age Pensions," "City Government by Commission," and "Poe's Influence upon European Literature," are the topics. The subjects of the Lockwood prizes open to. Juniors are: "Lincoln's Contribution to American Literature," "The Conservation of Natural Resources," "Industrial Accidents," and "The Novels of William DeMorgan."
Since returning from his western trip, as representative of the College, Mr. Hopkins has spoken before the Springfield Lunch Club and at Worcester Academy, among other places. It is probable also that he will accept invitations for another western trip for about the first of May, while a number of engagements in New England are already fixed.
The senior class pictures were taken this year by Marceau of Boston, who held a series of sittings in Langill's studio.
The will of the late Mrs. Emma Cummings of Easthampton, Long Island, bequeathed $25,000 to Dartmouth and Bowdoin each.
A report of illegal election in the freshman class in which fraternity and dormitory electioneering played a prominent part, brought forth an order from the Palaeopitus that the election should be held again. The affair was re-held, resulting in the election of the following : President, C. P. Dodge; viceresident, H. S. Harman; secretary, D. W. Jones; treasurer, J. H. Cleaves.
At the first regular meeting of the Deutscher Verein, Friday, March 5, Professor Campbell addressed the club on his student days in Berlin. Three new members were taken in and plans for following meetings drawn up. The officers of the club are: V. I. Klopp '09, president; N. S. Foss '11, vicepresident; M. L. Holmes '11, secretary.
Spring football practice will be this year directly after the Easter vacation under the supervision of Captain-elect Tobin. The senior members of the team will assist Captain Tobin in the coaching.
W. H. Ham '97, T. S. C. L. '98, was a recent lecturer before the Thayer School on : "The Manufacture and Use of Cement in Concrete Construction."
The Dartmouth Board has elected Robert Emerson Parker '10, of Reading, Mass., as business manager for the paper next year.
Dr. John Bowler has just completed a tour of the gymnasiums of the colleges in the East.
In a mock inauguration held on town election day the Hon. H. Reginald Hankart was inaugurated as mayor of Hanover after a parade of some fifty prominent men of the community had escorted his honor about the campus with the assistance of the band. The mayor-elect explained his platform and promised a liquor license, a subway across the campus, and an elevated to Lebanon.
Mr. Paul Nixon, a member of the first delegation of Rhodes Scholars to Oxford, read a paper on : "Oxford as Seen by the Rhodes Scholar," before the Classical Club at a recent meeting.
The New England Intercollegiate Track championship banner won by Dartmouth at the last meeting has arrived and is hanging in the Commons. Shaw, Cams, and Shipley '08; Pevear, Palmer, and Sherman ' id"; Johnson and Noyes '11 are the names written on it as the winners.
