It is to the younger alumni only that the Reverend Frank L. Janeway

is known, for his ministry in the College Church has covered a term of little more than five years. To those, however, who have encountered him in personal relations or have enjoyed the privilege of listening to his Sermons, the news of his resignation from the Hanover parish will occasion keen regret. Mr. Janeway came to Hanover in the fall of 1906, nominally as assistant to Mr. Vernon, but soon to shoulder the complex responsibilities entailed by an academic pastorate. During the period of his work in the community, his high intellectual attainments have commanded universal respect, while his serious conscientiousness and quiet, yet effective activity in good works have gained him a large measure of affectionate regard. His rare qualities of mind and spirit have won him innumerable friends, whose heartiest good wishes he carries with him to his new field of endeavor.

In the good old days, Dartmouth Hall was, for the most part, dormitory- of unenviable title. Today every available inch of that venerable building's phoenix counterpart is used for purposes of recitation. And now ancient Wentworth is to be disemboweled and provided with a complete set of new innards suited to the vacuum-filling demands which are to supercede the more simple physical requirements that were. Once a bathless abode, watered from the oft frozen pump behind Dartmouth, heated by stoves, lighted by candles and flickering lamps, Wentworth, in common with its twin, Thornton, has of late years undergone many changes to meet the exacting demands of a luxurious generation. What became of all the bandy-legged stoves when steam was introduced, history divulges not. The providing of baths ended the weekly procession to the showers of Bissell Hall. For some time, the student has ensured satisfactory return for funds expended, by burning, night long, the electric substitute for his former midnight oil. Not one of the present undergraduate tribe ever toted a pail to the pump; or ever heard of the pump, indeed.

But even with modern improvements, perhaps Went worth is a little out of date for residential purposes. Its passing should call up many alumni memories for the old hall has a history, not a record of mortared brick and stone, but of youthful fellowship, exuberance, escapade. Who is there of the cheerful period of the double-decker, of legless furniture, of the primitive domestic science of a janitorless domain, who will collect the scattered fragments of experience and bring them together as memorial of the metamorphosis of Wentworth Hall?

Princeton University has departed somewhat from the usual mode of choosing college presidents, in the election of one of her faculty to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Woodrow Wilson. The choice of Doctor John Grier Hibben, Stuart professor of Logic, seems, however, a wise one. Princeton problems have recently received somewhat spectacular treat ment in the public press. Their seriousness lies primarily in their exaggeration. Their solution will be found in judicious and reasonable adjustment rather than in sweeping enactment. A college community must needs afford a peculiar mingling of conservative and radical elements. Used properly to temper each other, these elements may work together for much ultimate good. If one consistently holds the upper hand, the result is quite likely to be either dry rot or chaos. Possessed of unusual tact and gentleness, yet of rare fixity of purpose, President Hibben should be able to effect a happy combination of forces that shall insure Princeton's place in the paths of enlightened and constructive progress.

The Dartmouth Outing Club is an organization highly deserving of encouragement and respect. Already, during its brief existence, it has accomplished a large work in revealing to the undergraduates the real charms of Hanover and has probably done more to counteract the sometimes vicious results of close hibernation than any other influence that could have been brought to bear. Last year it opened the eyes of students and friends alike to the possibilities, of winter sports, by holding a February carnival whose combination of picturesque athletic event and pleasing social diversion made it a memorable occasion. Plans for a similar exhibition during the coming month point to a wider interest and to consequently greater success. It begins to look as if the time might not be distant when the Dartmouth man who can not ski and snowshoe and guide a toboggan down the steepest slopes will be ashamed to confess it. The students of an earlier era, coming as they did mainly from rural districts, were a vigorous lot, chiefly because of birth and breeding. They left a tradition of strength and hardihood which is dear to the College, but whose continuance is now more dependent upon the development of the men during their four years' course than upon their condition at the time of matriculation. In Hanover, Nature will work wonders if given a chance. The Outing Club is making a large part of its business the affording of that chance, and, in so doing, is a potent element in the maintenance of Dartmouth's proud positon as a maker of men.

The sudden death of Mrs. Emily Howe Hitchcock removes from the Dartmouth community one of its most interesting and highly esteemed personalities. The . fine old mansion, where, amid the retired beauty of lawn, woodland, and garden, Mrs. Hitchcock had spent the past twelve years, was the sole survivor of the estates of former days. It was her constant joy to preserve and enhance its natural attractiveness, and to maintain within it much of the oldtime quiet dignity and elegance of life. But a stone's throw from the ebb and flow of campus activities, the place enjoyed a certain fine isolation that won admiration and compelled respect.

Yet Mrs. Hitchcock was no recluse. She took a large-minded interest in the people and the things about her, and was generous alike in hospitality and kindly deeds. To the village she gave the Howe Library, charmingly remodelled home of her youth; to the Hospital she gave a considerable parcel of land. And not content with these gifts during life, she has bountifully provided for both institutions in her will. This document contains two other bequests of large public interest: by its provisions, Dartmouth College will receive the Hitchcock mansion and its surrounding land, extending from Main Street to the river; the Pine Park Association will receive the wooded Vale of Tempe. The full benefit of these great donations it is impossible, at present, to forecast. It is interesting, however, to observe the unusual mingling of wisely directed affection for both Dartmouth College and the village of Hanover, which they denote.