ANNUAL MEETING OF PHI BETA KAPPA

The annual meeting of Alpha of New Hampshire of Phi Beta Kappa was held on Friday evening, February 18. Fifteen members of the senior class were initiated into the society; with the thirteen members elected in October the class of 1916 now holds the record of having the largest number of Phi Beta Kappa men since the inauguration of the present system of election. The initiates were: H. C. Bean, C. E. Brundage, H. M. Buffinton, J. D. Cremer, Jr., C. C. Gammons, E. H. Gumbart, Jr., C. E. Jones, H. C. Kimball, E. L. Lindman. D. L. Lindsley, H. J. McLellan, G. B. Phillips, A. C. Rosenblatt, H. B. Stedman, G. H. Tapley.

After the initiation William A. Dunning of Columbia University delivered an address on "Types of Strong Presidents." This address, which dealt with an analysis, comparison, and contrast of the characters of Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, and Roosevelt, was marked by Professor Dunning's usual broad learning, deep insight, and careful and apt phraseology.

The annual dinner of the society was held in the Hanover Inn immediately after the address. Professor A. K. Hardy acted as toastmaster. Responses were given by President Nichols, whose subject was "Science and the Intellectual Life of the Twentieth Century" ; Professor Dunning, who gave reminiscences of his freshman year, which he spent at Dartmouth with the class of 1881; R. F. Evans 'l6, who spoke on "Scholarship and College Activities"; and Dean Laycock, who set forth "The Warrant for the American College."