President of the Alumni Association

President of the Alumni Association, Edwin A. Bayley, fired with a combination of patriotic zeal, warlike ardor, and up-bubbling Dartmouth spirit, has seized a bugle in one hand, a fountain pen in the other and issued the following clarion note:

BULLETIN NO. 1.

CALL TO ANNUAL MUSTER

GENERAL ORDER IN COUNCIL NO. 145

Comrades of the Grand Army of Dartmouth:—

The Military Spirit presses close up-on us; the call to the Northland grips us hard; effective loyalty demands united action.

You are, therefore, commanded to mobilize for our annual muster at die training ground on the Plains of Hanover, from June 20th to 23rd next.

Every comrade, whether retired or in active service is ordered to report, or be summarily drafted. There will be no exemptions on account of age, or size, and no specifications as to uniform, or to weight or contents of knapsack. Nothing will be declared contraband^

The news from The Front promises a strand and inspiring encampment.

All returning comrades will be welcomed and reviewed at headquarters (College Hall) by General Ernest Fox Nichols, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Classes.

Each Comrade immediately upon arrival will report at headquarters (College Hall) and register, and thereafter proceed to his own Company's Headquarters, where camp-fires will be lighted early and burn continuously.

Inspiring Dartmouth spirit will be the only authorized beverage and will at all times be freely dispensed at any regular or special canteen.

To avoid any unnecessary disturbance or interruption, both reveille and taps will be omitted,

There will be no Provost Marshal detailed for duty—as none will be needed.

Each Company will daily form and parade on the Muster Ground.

Sham Battles will occur at duly advertised intervals upon the Muster Ground and the Training Field, presenting novel evolutions and spectacular manoeuvres.

N. B. No. 1. In order to avoid any unnecessary casualties, all spectators are specially cautioned to "stand away back from the firing line".

N. B. No. 2. The Daily Dartmouth, the official organ of the Encampment will publish the only authentic and properly censored accounts of all events as they occur.

Comrades will be mustered out only after a grand mess Wednesday noon, where every veteran and recruit must answer to the roster and where distinguished Comrades and Foreign Envoys will recount the glories of past campaigns and arouse the Comrades to deeds of even greater valor and patriotism.

The Commanding Officers issue this final proclamation:

Every Comrade is simply out on furlough or parole and subject to recall at any time.

All furloughs and paroles are hereby suspended as to June 20th to 23rd next.

Each Comrade absenting himself, for whatever cause, from this Muster will be forthwith apprehended, court-martialed, sentenced to exile and deported.

Therefore, Comrades, let our rallying cry be "On to Dartmouth in June".

Issued at the Boston "Outpost" and "Recruiting Station" this twenty-fifth day of May, A. D., 1915.

Edwin A. Bayley '85, Adj. Gen'l, in Command of the "Allied Alumni".

Whether or not this year's Commencement will rival in size that of last year is, despite President Bayley's vigorous campaign, a matter of some doubt. The pinch of things is being felt in a good many quarters, and will naturally have its effect upon a group of men so widely scattered as are Dartmouth graduates. Yet there is promise of numbers sufficent to tax Hanover accommodations to the utmost. The necessity will remain for inoculating with a picnic spirit all who come; for whatever their original intention their eventual performance is to be classified only in the picnic category.

Fortunately most of Dartmouth's Commencement guests are familiar with the local conditions. Occasionally they telegraphically commandeer a suite with bath at the Inn, only to receive a cupboard with a tin wash-basin on the far fringe of the community. Such are the fortunes of Commencement. THE MAGAZINE confidentially passes on the information that there is no use in telegraphing the Inn, anyway. It was engaged by occult processes before the time when the memory of man recordeth to the contrary.

The dormitories still extend such hospitality as circumstances permit. Some day, perhaps, the alumni will form the habit of coming to Hanover in such quantities, at times other than Commencement, as to make it possible to maintain a local hotel large enough more nearly to meet the severe requirements of the one crowded season. In the meantime, those who take the trouble to investigate will find this year a transformed Hanover Inn that should offer temptation to subsequent visits under more propitious circumstances.

In the death of Edwin R. Perkins '57, Dartmouth loses an alumnus who, born in the State of New Hampshire, accomplished a notable career in Ohio. A successful man of business, he took part, as well, in enterprises for the common good in the state of his adoption. He was interested in Dartmouth and in the associations of his student days; yet apparently the opportunity never fully presented itself for linking him intimately with the larger concerns of the College. In Cleveland, where he was the dean of the Dartmouth group, the alumni held him in affectionate esteem as one whose loyal cooperation in college matters could always be counted on, even in the midst of most pressing business affairs.