CLASS OF 1899
Major Frank W. Cavanaugh of Worcester was elected commander of the Worcester County Council, American Legion, at a meeting of post representatives and delegates at the state armory in Worcester on April 25.
William T. Atwood of Melrose, Mass., has been unanimously elected by the trustees to be dean of the University of Maine Law School. He has declined the offer.
Arthur H. W. Norton writes from Texas under date of. April 27 for "one copy of '99 class report and a good rain". Both, he says, "are long overdue", and he fears "lost in transit".
Apropos of the report's being "lost in transit", the secretary wishes contritely to ask the charitable indulgence of those interested readers who conned in this column of the March issue his complacent allusion to a "report recently issued". It was premature, like the announcement of Mark Twain's death, or that of Mr. Hughes' election to the presidency by some over zealous dailies a few years ago. The secretary herewith relinquishes any claim to prophetic powers, and meekly awaits the pleasure of subsiding blizzards, linotype operators, and freight embargoes. He would, if he dared, hazard a guess, but a bad guesser is as malodorous as a false prophet. So he refrains.
The five successful Lenten lunches during March of the Dartmouth Club of Boston are sufficiently set forth elsewhere in this issue. George G. Clark had no small part in the successful engineering of the enterprise, Charles H. Donahue presided most acceptably at one of them, and Owen A. Hoban made a stirring address at the last one on "Some Unused American Assets".
A. L. Heywood wrote in February to the secretary that he had recently recovered from a slight attack of the flu. He also had a bit of news from Fred A. Walker: "It was the first call I ever made on Walker when he was not full of automobiles. I judge the season has put a little damper on his enthusiasm. If he is walking to and from the office, it is not causing him to grow thinner."
Herbert S. Rogers was "snowed in" the night of the round-up, and kept from the last Lenten luncheon by the illness of his wife. Mrs. Rogers is now much better.
Prof. James P. Richardson continues to lead his usual strenuous life of serviceable speaking and writing in his spare hours be- tween lectures. On March 4, in College Hall, he spoke on "Law as a Profession"; on March 2, at a smoker of 1921, he discussed the "Future Expansion of Dartmouth"; in the March number of the Ace he handled the present political situation; and in the vacation Bema he explained the plans concerning the new Alumni Oval.
Herbert L. Watson wrote on April 11 as follows: "In about a week I expect to leave Manistique, Mich., and be located in Fitchburg, Mass., for the erection of a mill similar to the one we have about completed here. Two weeks ago today the river here overflowed its banks, and much of the city was under water for ten days. The water was seven feet deep over the main floor of our mill, but did not do a great amount of damage. Until you hear from me again use my home address, 1307 Boulevard, New Haven, Conn."
John Ash, out in Oregon, really had his share of sickness a year ago at this time, but the past winter proved another emergency period for him, including a month at the hospital. John is about again now, however, just in season to get into his contracting work as it begins to boom once more.
Owen Hoban of Gardner, Mass., and Professor "Jim" Richardson were the speakers at the Dartmouth Club of Boston on June 4, when the Club staged another one of its successful "Fathers and Sons" nights. "Bucky" Chandler '9B presided. He assumed a facetious ignorance as to the reason of his being selected as chairman, unless it was to allow him to be swamped by '99 men. Jim gave an informal and lively account of athletics in Hanover, with a stirring tribute to the allaround manliness of the average Dartmouth athlete. He also pressed home the point that the College faculty was proving itself a great teaching body, keenly alive to the human interests and needs of the students. Owen Hoban's talk was a rousing picture of the Dartmouth spirit", that intangible thing which cannot be analyzed, but is merely felt as a power in the lives of the men that come under its spell. Owen, by the way, is very much in demand these days. As chairman of the Gardner school board, he has been largely instrumental in the notable Americanization movement of that town, which promises to revolutionize the treatment of the foreignborn population of this country. The inhabitants of Gardner number only 15,000, but they have had through the winter a night school attendance of 500. They have, moreover, a hundred applicants waiting for their second citizenship papers, and 176 for first citizenship papers. This notable result is being obtained by dealing with the men not as mere cogs in the industrial machine, but as human beings, and the natural claimants of sympathy and aid at the hands of the local government in behalf of the national government. Owen says that some of his theories in this movement crystallized into action after a midnight conversation with "Peddie" Miller at the '99 Vicennial last June, when the latter assured him that he was on the right track.
Professor Herbert A. Miller, just referred to by his better known title of "Peddie", continues to set the pace in this matter of our wise understanding of our so-called foreign element. He is off to Prague to study again at first hand the lives and institutions of his friends the Bohemians. He will visit President Masaryk, tour Poland, and—but we'll tell the rest of it when he returns.
Professor Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University has just published through W. B. Saunders Company of Philadelphia his new book, "The Nation's Food". The text gives a definite record of statistical work covering the food resources of the United States. The publishers plan to advertise Dr. Pearl's new book widely, for they believe it will be the indispensable basis of further research work along this critical line.
Alvah G. Sleeper is one of the most devoted members of the Masonic fraternity among Dartmouth alumni. Some of his present affiliations are as follows: member of Aleppo Temple of Shriners, Boston; member of St. Andrew Royal Arch Chapter, the oldest in the United States; member of the DeMolay Commandery in Boston; member of the Boston Council of Masons; senior deacon of the Somerville Blue Lodge; high priest of the Mt. Vernon Royal Arch Chapter, Roxbury. What with these Masonic activities and his numerous law cases, Alvah manages to keep fairly busy. Incidentally he is trying to devise means at present to-prevent sneak thieves from breaking into the garage at his summer place in Dennis, Mass., and making off with his automobile tools. Some parties unknown did a very thorough and workmanlike job in that line the past winter.
Since April 19 George L. Huckins has been taking his wife and the two boys down to their summer camp at East Gloucester for the week-ends.
Ernest L. Silver, principal of the Plymouth (N.H.) Normal School, believes in the allaround development of his students. Witness the record of his girls' basket-ball team the past season.
The classmates and friends of Luther S. Oakes wish him to know of their sympathy in the loss of his father; so also with Alvah G. Sleeper in the loss of his; and with Frank A. Musgrove in the death of his mother. All within recent months.
Walter R. Eastman and son Jerome spent the week-end of May 23 with George Clark on his farm at Plymouth, N. H. For details as to horseback riding, trout fishing, and other sports of the season consult these gentlemen in person.
Secretary, Kenneth Beal, 55 Botolph St., Melrose Highlands, Mass.
