Boston, Mass., June 8, 1910

Editor Dartmouth Alumni .Magazine : Dear Sir :

Enclosed please find a few notes with reference to Ninety-Niners for the Magazine.

Accepting your recent invitation to knock or boost the Magazine, I beg to say that it has struck me that the "Alumni" part of the title might be more emphasized in the contents. That while the excuse for being of the Magazine is to keep the alumni informed of the situation at Hanover, yon can get them more enthused and jolly them along better by dishing out to them more of the “Good- Old-Days,” “When-We-Were-Twenty-one,” “What-Hellions-We-Were” gush.

Get some of the old codgers to write up Hanover as they knew it; one from the Fifty decade, one from the Sixties, etc. Xo bath-tubs. Bedbug alley, only three teachers—now there .are three hundred; only twenty students then,- -now fifteen hundred, etc. etc.; sports on the campus, three hundred playing at once with only one football; Commencement in the old days: drunken classes laid away on the grass in numerical order, great improvement nowadays; lemonade with lime juice and no lemons; reminiscences of the professors; old Dr. X. coming to classes absent mindedly in pajamas or their ancestors, whatever called; humorous Prof. Y., anecdotes illustrating; anecdotes of Prof. Z. who died of over- work, used to recite tables of logarithms backward, set the binomial theory to mu- sic with one hand, how he tamed the fourth dimension, etc., etc.; tales of der- ring-do by the class of ’39; the time they put the one-eyed donkey in the belfry, installing skunks in the Orthodox church at Lyme, stealing the schoolhouse at Nor- wich, etc., etc.

A lot of that kind of slush interests the aged, mellows them up, makes ’em subscribe to the Magazine, and add a codicil to their will.

I liked George Clark’s spiel and have heard others commend it. Sincerely yours,