MANCHESTER ASSOCIATION

The annual meeting of the Alumni Association of Manchester, N. H.. was held in the Barton Auditorium on the evening of November 20. One might easily have thought it to be a war workers' reunion, for practically every one of the more than one hundred present has been an active war campaigner in some capacity. The gathering was really representative and interpretative of Dartmouth in the war, and the keynote of all the speaking was cooperative service for the days to follow the war.

James A. Wellman '89, president of the Association, in his opening remarks, suggested that the 1,000 Dartmouth men in New Hampshire form a state alumni association for the purpose of service in behalf of the College, as an aid to the state department of public instruction and as an instrument of helpfulness for the governor and congressmen.

President Hopkins, after an illuminating account of the present work of the College, gave one of his characteristic talks on education as a means to broad culture interpreted in terms of service.

Governor-elect Bartlett '94. in a sort of preinaugural address, outlined some of his policies with reference to education, industrial relations, and the raising of the standard of living conditions of workers, rural and urban, and made a direct appeal for the maintenance of the war-work force as a going concern cooperating with the state government. Congressman Burroughs, also of '94, carried the idea into the broader regions of national service. And Professor T. W. D. Worthen 72, of the Public Service Commission, made a stirring appeal for the preservation of the spirit of cooperative service and its application to the manifold problems of the coming days.

Music was a striking feature of the meeting. War songs were sung, led by School Superintendent Taylor, an orchestra accompanying.