CLASS OF 1889

The following eight men of '89 represented the class at the dinner given by the New York alumni, May 4, in honor of the Dartmouth men who sailed for France the next day: Clark, Ferguson, C. D. Hazen, Miner, Noyes, Reynolds, Sullivan, and Wheat. Of special interest was the fact that one of the men, Noyes, was sending his son, Edwin Miles Noyes '16, for service in the American Ambulance.

One of the publications for Harvard University is "Harvard Bulletins in Education." The issue for February, 1917, is "A Selected Critical Bibliography of Vocational Guidance."

Three books by Frederick J. Allen are included in this bibliography and are especially commended.

After a description of the aim and scope of the book, "Business Employment"—Ginn & Co., 1916, it is said, "Mr. Allen's thorough-going methods and painstaking care as an investigator establish the subject matter of his books on a plane above criticism."

Of "The Law as a Vocation"—The Vocation Bureau of Boston, 1913, it is said, "This book is a model of scientific investigation and judicious exposition. Libraries are full of books on occupations by 'experts,' 'successful men,' and other exploiters of popular interests. All of Mr. Allen's books, on the contrary, are based on information secured from sources of the highest autarky, and this information is compared and checked in every practicable manner. Cooperation with the best informed people is secured through the wide connections and national reputation of the Vocation Bureau. The manuscript for the present volume, as in the case of all others, was submitted to many authorities for criticism. Further, instead of being written to attract and arouse enthusiasm, it presents facts, and aims to dissuade the unfit, as well as to help the fit."

The third book, "The Shoe Industry"— The Vocation Bureau of Boston, 1916, is reviewed in some detail and these paragraphs are added: "This book, has been described by those who are competent to judge as the best popular treatise on any modern industry which has yet been written. Mr. Allen has succeeded admirably in expressing in simple terms and readily comprehended language the complex and highly technical parts of his subject."

"The book has already been adopted by several firms as a text for their apprentice schools. Its worth to the teacher or social worker in a community engaged in shoe manufacture who wishes to become familiar with industrial problems can scarcely be overstated, and it describes conditions typical of all industries."

Reference is also made to a fourth book now in press—"Advertising as a Vocation."

Secretary, Dr. David N. Blakely, 53 Monmouth St., Brookline, Mass.