WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION

Clear, trenchant, straight from the shoulder, came President Hopkins' talk to the Washington (D. C.) alumni, January 10, at the Hotel Lafayette. There was something about the way "Our Hop" set forth the great educational ideals of the College that gave the suggestion of a thrill to his hearers, regardless of whether as undergraduates they had majored in football or Phi Beta Kappa. Without any "flowers" and minus the strategems of the orator, the President won a flatteringly close attention as he told of the intellectual achievements of the undergraduates and the far-seeing plans of the trustees to increase this aristocracy of the mind and at the same time to preserve the great social democracy of Hanover.

The attendance of the alumni was a record one, reaching approximately sixty per cent of the names on the secretary's list, besides representatives of the Baltimore and Chicago groups. Not only were the singing, cheering, and marching sons of Dartmouth enthralled by the President's story, but the talk of Russell R. (Cotty) Larmon '19 was the occasion of a large volume of applause. Larmon, who has already endeared himself to every reader of "The Bulletin," proved to be a sort of sublimated senior, though not quite one of the faculty. He brought a view point of undergraduate life which did not lose its freshness even when combined with an unusually observant analysis. We endorse Mr. Larmon without reservation for any alumni association that is seeking a somewhat new angle from Hanover.

The business of the evening consisted in the passage of a resolution of sympathy for President C. H. Gould '93, whose continued illness prevented his presence at the dinner; in the reference to the executive committee of the nomination of a candidate for the Alumni Council; and of an instruction to the Secretary to convey to Dr. Tucker the affectionate regard of all members of the Association, with the wish that his best years of happiness and contentment may still lie before him.

The speaking was wholly devoted to the messages from the College, Henry P. Blair '89 manfully suppressing the modest clamors of Washington's many orators to be heard, and the meeting closed with a burst of enthusiasm at the unheard of hour (for Washington) of 10:25 P.M.A noisy but serious interest and a full treasury find us in great shape for 1922.