BOSTON ASSOCIATION

January 28, 1916, more than eight hundred members of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston held their fifty-first annual celebration at the Copley-Plaza.

President Nichols represented the College, Governor McCall the state, John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union, the government, Prof. B. T. Marshall the faculty, and Robert Frost of Franconia, in his poem, "The Slide," New England.

The serious note lay in the fact that it was President Nichols's last talk to the Boston alumni as president, and in Mr. Barrett's general implication of the necessity of Pan-American preparedness. The humor was directed by Sturgis Pishon '10. General Charles K. Darling '85 was toastmaster.

"Sam" McCall '74, the first Dartmouth man to be governor of Massachusetts, was warmly welcomed. He spoke of the strength that his administration would have thrugh the work of another Dartmouth man—Channing Cox '01—and concluded: "I would not exchange Dartmouth's history for that of any other college in the country."

Director General Barrett '89 asserted that the United States is today face to face with a situation never before confronting it, and predicted trouble for America at the close of the European war.

Much of the fun was at the hands of R. C. Johnson '15 and C. B. White '11, impersonating Governor McCall and Speaker Cox respectively, and of L. R. Chamberlin '05, who represented Director General Barrett. Fred Carroll '09, purporting to represent the Dartmouth Athletic Council, scored the present football schedule.

The following officers were elected: president, Arthur L. Spring '80; vice-presidents, Dr. Edward H. Trowbridge '81, Maurice S. Sherman '94, Morton C. Tuttle '97, Ernest M. Hopkins '01; executive committee, Wilfred H. Smart '07, James R. Chandler '98, William M. Hatch '86, Charles H. Donahue '99, Thomas W. Streeter 'O4, Henry M. Chase '97; treasurer, Harry W. Goodall '98; secretary, Joshua B. Clark '11; chorister, Sturgis Pishon '10.