The Hanover Branch of the League of Free Nations Association of New Hampshire, the first local branch to be established within the state, was organized at a meeting of students, faculty, and townspeople on the evening of January 17. Mr. Norman Hapgood, President of the National Association, was present and addressed the gathering. The following officers were elected: Honorary president, Dr. William J. Tucker; president, Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins; secretary, Mr. L. D. White; executive committee, Prof. R. W. Husband, chairman; Prof. J. P. Richardson, Mr. L. D.' White, Mr. F. A. Musgrove, and R. Proctor '19.
The local branch proposes to arouse interest through meetings conducted under its auspices in various places about the state. At home it will further its work through study groups, weekly addresses to the undergraduates by members of the faculty, and by special mass meetings. The first of these mass meetings was held in College Hall on the evening of February 11, when Professor Irving Fisher of Yale addressed an audience of nearly five hundred.