INTERESTING LETTER FROM SECOND OLDEST ALUMNUS
The following interesting letter from Dartmouth's second oldest living alumnus was received by Fred H. McCrea '19, Secretary of the Pacific Coast Dartmouth Association, before the annual meeting of that association held April 17.
"Brother Alumnus:
"Your kind note informing me of the time of the annual banquet of the Pacific Coast Dartmouth men, has been received and in reply would say that I do not think it hardly possible to be with you on next Tuesday, the 17th, however much I would enjoy it to be with you and give each a hearty handshake. By the way I will give you the power of attorney to do it for me.
"My wife is so lame that she can scarcely get about the house on crutches, besides she would be in constant worry lest I meet with an automobile accident so I have thought it best to remain at home. My health has been very good the past winter with the exception perhaps of a slight cold and I think I could make the trip to San Francisco very comfortably in spite of four score and twelve years, besides being accused of being Dartmouth's oldest living graduate, except one and he antidates me only by two or three months besides he was a Chandler and did not sit at the feet of Cicero and Demosthenes for three or four years. I find that J. H. Waterman of Tulare is only three months younger.
"My old New England home was only about ten miles—the way the crow flies—south east from Dartmouth, and but for Moose Mt., I could almost have seen into Dartmouth's back door.
"After I was twenty-one I decided to go around or over Moose Mt., and take a look at Dartmouth's front door, I found the mountain rather rough and rocky. When I was a little school boy, I remember having to stand on the floor to learn what A.B. and A.M. stood for, but after many, many years of study A.B., in my case means Able Bodied, but A.M. which literally means Able Minded, I doubt will never be attained by this writer.
"Give my best regards to all Brother Alumni and if any should happen to be in Sacramento at any time I will be happy to see them,
"Sincerely yours,
