NEW YORK ASSOCIATION,

I am sending the MAGAZINE a brief description of the Dartmouth Smoker held by the New York alumni at Hotel Pennsylvania, Thursday, January 22. In the first place it may be worth while to go back a little distance and give an idea of what the New York contingent has endeavored to accomplish this season.

Early in the fall a few representatives of the younger classes called together over a hundred men of the last ten classes for a "Younger Alumni Luncheon" at Hotel Pennsylvania, October 4. The group enthusiastically welcomed a plan to start Dartmouth activities in motion here on a frequent and informal basis. To co-operate with the officers of the Alumni Association, a committee of representatives was chosen under the chairmanship of J. C. Sterling '11. Each class representative since then has been responsible for the organization of his own class. Through frequent class luncheons and dinners these classes have been well organized into separate alumni divisions, which can be counted on to give enthusiasm to any alumni gathering on short notice. Results may be judged by the number of gatherings the New York men have enjoyed in four months, and the attendance at each.

The second gathering, following plans made at the Younger Alumni Luncheon, was an old-fashioned football smoker at the Pennsylvania, with President Hopkins, Harry Hillman, "Jigger" Pender, "Joe" Gannon, Coach Spears, Captain Cannell, and five hundred others present. It was the night before the Cornell'game. Picture a Dartmouth football team like Captain Cannell's and five hundred itching alumni, all in the same town. Any town will do. This time it was New York, and it was the biggest Dartmouth night this town has seen.

We had four hundred men at the Pennsylvania again Thursday night. The committee sent out notices mentioning "ice gnomes marching from the Norways," and "a song by the fire" in New York. A hundred and fifty started the party early with a dinner together in class groups at Keen's, and went from there to the smoker.

Dr. C. E. Bolser came down from Hanover, and brought with him a regular Hanover winter expressed in lantern slides interspersed with many delightfully humorous and wellappointed remarks. Besides pictures of the northland cabins and trails and carnival stunts, he had pictures of Delta Alpha, commencements, the Sesqui-centennial celebration, and some fine action studies snapped at the Cornell and Pennsylvania games.

Friends of Dartmouth who had never seen Hanover but for whom the name fills an aching void were plentiful. And one was present who has seen Dartmouth twice at carnival time and once at the Colgate game, and who has written glowingly of each occasion in the athletic page of the New YorkPost. He is Laurence Perry, that fairminded friend of all clean sport. Mr. Perry spoke a few moments, reminiscent of visits in Hanover, the brand of man, life, and game which characterizes the college there and here.

Luckily Harry McDevitt was coaxed down from the Hub to sing a few of the good old songs with "Pat" Hathaway, Henry Hobart, Charlie Warren, and Fred Child. The crowd kept them busy a long, long while with special requests, and the same fate befell Arch Earl and "Bones" Joy when each took to a piano, as they used to do at the Commons "before the war."

Fred Child's tenor voice gratified all who used to hear him sing on the Campus and who have followed with interest his intense training recently. He sang three selections, especially "Mandalay," which rang clearer and sweeter than ever.

The surprise of the evening was inspired by Mr. C. G. Milham, the Dartmouth man who manages the hotel's publicity, and who knew what entertainments were taking place there at other parties. Our memory does not go back so far as names, but the young lady he borrowed from one of the other ball rooms banished any slim chance there might have been for monotony. All the latest music, charming adornments, and modern tendencies in dancing movements were introduced, and the alumni called for more.

The smoker closed with moving pictures of winter carnival, a comic Pathé film, and the Dartmouth song.

Next on the program will be the annual banquet at Hotel Pennsylvania, February 25. A still larger crowd is predicted to hear President Hopkins give his welcome annual message.