ANNUAL ROUND-UP

The annual out-door round-up of the class of 1900 was held at Hampton Beach on June 8 to 10, inclusive. It was unusually successful, both in point of attendance and in enthusiasm. All in all, there were thirty-one members of the class present during the round-up, and the average daily attendance was about twenty-five. The fellows came by train and automobile from all points in New England.

The class occupied three large cottages, which provided sleeping accommodations for the entire crowd by utilizing couches and hammocks. Three chefs took care of the preparation of the meals. The first floor of one cottage was used for a dining room, and one cottage was devoted to reuning. Everyone gathered around the open fireplace, and talked and sang from morning until night.

The special features were: a lobster dinner on Friday night; a baseball game on the beach Saturday morning; and a bean supper Saturday night. After supper everyone gathered in one cottage, and all the old songs were sung, most of the new ones. Perhaps volume was more conspicuous than musical quality, but it brought back vividly the old days. One fellow who had never attended a 1900 round-up said that he saw little change in any of the fellows. They seemed just as young as they ever did. It seemed as though he were back in Hanover once more, celebrating a football victory, or 1900's winning of an inter-class track meet.

Sunday was spent indoors, in deference to the rain. Sunday dinner closed the event.

Dan Arundel was chairman of the committee, and it was through his influence and energy that such fine quarters were secured and all arrangements for rest, food, and service were complete. Walter Rankin and Natt contributed their share, while Chelsea Atwood assumed the financial burden.

One of the greatest joys was in welcoming fellows who, for one reason or another, had been absent from previous round-ups—Stevens from Somersworth, Foster and Corson from Rochester, Trull from Tewksbury, and Moody, who had seen but an occasional man since undergraduate days. To us they were Sid and John and Freeman, and each one revived old memories of our college life.

It is difficult to describe a class reunion of this character. It isn't just — "Hello! How are you?" "Goodbye - I'll see you again." It's sitting down with fellows whom you haven't had a chance to talk with for a long time and learning just what they are doing, what they are thinking about, and then going back to the old days twenty years ago and living them over again. You can imagine that you are back in Crosby or Sanborn Hall or one of the old dormitories, because in the room next to you are a couple of fellows who, it may be, roomed beside you in college. Instead of a few gathering together in somebody's room for a hum, you are all together in one big room, singing the same old songs and thinking of the same things.

Then you hear all about the College from Keyes — you know when So-and-So's boys are going to be in Hanover, and you wonder if your boy will be there too. You hear what Dartmouth men are doing all over the country. You know what each 1900 man is accomplishing in his own town, and you leave with a warm feeling for everyone, and an appreciation of just what it means to perpetuate Dartmouth associations and keep in touch with the men who all started out in life at the same time that you did.

This is what the out-door round-up meant to 1900, and the only thing lacking was one hundred and fifty faces instead of thirty-one.