ST. LOUIS ASSOCIATION

The St. Louis Alumni Association wishes to express to Dartmouth College and President Nichols its appreciation of his visit to us on Saturday, January 4, 1913. President Nichols arrived on the morning train, and in due course was taken to the Buckingham Hotel, where arrangements had been made for our dinner that evening. The Association was very much delighted in that President Nichols arrived on the morning train, as his two previous visits have been the occasions of embarrassing situations, as on the first visit President Nichols was sick and could not talk, and on the second visit he was snowbound in the "Wilds of Missouri," somewhere between Kansas City and St. Louis, so that he only arrived at the hotel at about eleven o'clock p. m., and could only deliver a few remarks. So when the information was passed around that the President was really in town, every one was pleasantly surprised, and consequently the reception and dinner were quite successful.

Prior to beginning dinner, the President held a reception, where he met the alumni in this neighborhood, also their wives and sweethearts, who were invited to the dinner. It was really more of a reception than a dinner, as our president, John K. Lord, Jr., had planned a sociable evening. After dinner, Dr. Nichols gave us a mighty instructive and interesting talk as to the New Dartmouth, and we also heard a few remarks from Judge Chase of Marshall, Missouri, of the class of '6l, who told some incidents of the days when he and Doctor Tucker were classmates.

At this meeting the fathers and mothers of the present students at Dartmouth from St. Louis were invited to attend, but only part of them were able to be with us. These few enjoyed meeting the Dartmouth Crowd of St. Louis, and becoming personally acquainted with our President. This meeting was quite different from those heretofore planned, and every one seemed to vote it a success, as they had a much better chance to meet and become acquainted with President Nichols and each other, and all expressed the desire that next year the President could arrange his itinerary so that we could again have the pleasure of entertaining him.