DARTMOUTH CLUB OF BOSTON

On the evening of March 28 the Dartmouth Club held the first intercollegiate smoke-talk ever held in Boston; bringing together in one jovial gathering at Copley Hall graduates of forty-seven colleges and universities.

The gathering was planned and engineered by J. R. Chandler '98, chairman of the entertainment committee, President J. P. Richardson '99, Philip B. Paul '06, and Morrill Gallagher '07. Each member of the Dartmouth Club was entitled to invite one representative of some other college, and there was an attendance of about six hundred, one-half being Dartmouth men. Outside of Dartmouth, Harvard had the largest representation, about sixty.

There was a varied program of songs and stories and other "stunts." Mr. Rossi of the University of Padua, Italy, one of the best baritones of the Boston Opera Company, sang two numbers, one from "Pagliacci," the other from "Hamlet," and was received with unbounded applause. Fred I. Brown, Wesleyan '98, made a great hit with a comical 'Romeo and Juliet" in a barnyard. Scott Perry, Dartmouth 'lO, gave an exhibition of sleight-of-hand that would have done credit to a professional. Newton Newkirk of Mt. Union College evoked roars of laughter with his account of scenes in the subway at six p. m. John Carroll of Princeton gave a version of the "Merchant of Venice" ,in Dutch dialect. Donald B. McMillan of Bowdoin described some of the humors of life in Eskimo snow huts in the Arctic regions. Some fine singing was contributed by an Amherst double quartet.

Institutions other than Dartmouth represented were: Yale, Harvard, Syracuse, Princeton, Cornell, Brown, Amherst, Williams, University of the South, Technology, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Tufts, University of Pennsylvania, Colby, University of Virginia, University of Illinois, Boston University, Lafayette, Hamilton, Columbia, University of Maine, Chicago University, University of Vermont, Ohio State, Worcester Tech., Johns Hopkins, Mt. Union, Georgetown, Michigan, Notre Dame, Miami, Swarthmore, Padua, Wisconsin, New Hampshire State, Tulane Vanderbilt, Marietta, Bates, Beloit, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Boston College, Randolph Oxford, Toronto.