NEW YORK ASSOCIATION

The annual banquet of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New York was held at the Hotel McAlpin on Friday, January 21, 1916, with about two hundred and fifty members attending. The speakers of the evening were: President Ernest Fox Nichols, Rev. Dr. Ozora S. Davis '89, Dr. Charles A. Eastman '87, Frank W. Cavanaugh '99. This program was particularly interesting because all of the speakers were Dartmouth men, and also for the reason that they presented their views on the College from many different angles.

President Nichols's address was a summary of the work done during his six years' administration. He reviewed the situation in the College as he found it, the aims and policies of his administration, and the situation today as he is leaving it, touching upon the raised standards of entrance requirements and conditions which have made , this not only necessary but desirable. He spoke in glowing terms of the future of the College, but he also brought up the very great change that had come to Dartmouth in the last few years, and made plain to all the alumni the difference between the Dartmouth of their day and the Dartmouth of this day.

Reverend Dr. Davis took for his subject the Chinese proverb, "If you have two loaves sell one and buy a lily." His talk was on Idealism.

Coach Cavanaugh reviewed the athletic activities of the College, and made plain his ideas of the relation which should exist between the academic and athletic life of the institution.

Mr. Eastman's speech was a humorous exposition of the Indian's conception of the civilization of the white man as exemplified by the present war in Europe. He treated the subject in a gently cynical vein throughout.

Before the banquet the annual meeting was held, and the following officers were elected for the years 1915-1916-1917: president, Charles Albert Perkins '90; vice-presidents, Charles G. Dußois '91, Laurence M. Symmes '08; secretary and treasurer, Shaw Newton '12; members of governing board, Joseph A. Ford '95, Edwin O. Grover '94, Alfred A. Wheat '89, Warren C. French '80, George E. .Melendy '85, Arthur T. Soule '08, Henry B. Johnson '83, Malcolm Stearns '08, Willard T. Towler '13; committee on nominations, Luther B. Little '82, Robert R. Gould '09, Lucius E. Varney '99.