THE CHICAGO POW WOW

Make your Pow Wow reservations now.Write or wire for hotel and railroad accommodations to General Chairman Nathaniel E.Leverone, Parkway Hotel, Chicago, Ill. Thesmoothness of arrangements depends uponyour prompt action. Get at it today.

Chicago is sending forth the most enthusiastic reports concerning the First Annual National Dartmouth Pow Wow which will be held at the Congress Hotel in that city on February 22nd and 23d.

Acceptances and requests for reservations are pouring in from every corner of the country—from alumni of every decade and every class. It now appears that the Pow Wow figures will easily surpass the original fixed minimum of 1,000. The Pow Wow idea seems to have appealed especially to the scattered alumni, who have seized this opportunity to enjoy a wholesale reunion with classmates and the members of adjoining classes whom they have not seen for many years.

Competition of the liveliest sort has sprung up among various Dartmouth centers. In many instances the Pow Wow committee has received announcement stating that the entire Dartmouth population of a city or town has made arrangements to come to Chicago in a body at Pow Wow time. Every strong Dartmouth center in the Middle West has promised a strong delegation and in many of them special carload parties are being made up for the Washington's Birthday "Peerade."

President Hopkins has informed the Pow Wow committee that he has rearranged his entire schedule to permit him to attend the Chicago convention and participate fully in its two day program. One of the strongest features of the Pow Wow is found in the fact that it will bring together a representative group of alumni whom President Hopkins and other members of the College Administration can address in a body.

Many alumni groups are so small that it has been impossible to go to them each year with a personal message from the College. To bring these men back into active touch with the college affairs is one of the most important purposes behind the Pow Wow.

However, it is undoubtedly the prospect of a great big rousing reunion of Dartmouth men of all times and places that promises to throw a severe strain on the hospitality of the Chicago group.

More than one alumnus has said in his letter

of acceptance: "I go back to Hanover for my class reunion once every five years. I see my own classmates and some of the men I know in the other classes. But think of the men who were in College one, two or three years with me when I was an undergraduate; many of them I haven't seen nor heard from in all these years. And that's why I am coming to the Pow Wow."

In Chicago eight or ten committees are working strenuously to make the first Pow Wow such an unqualified success from every standpoint that it will take its place as one of the permanent Dartmouth institutions.

The financial committee headed by Henry H. Hilton '90 is busy gathering in a fund of $5000 from the local alumni for the entertainment of their guests.

The entertainment committee has made arrangements for a Smoker, two Luncheons and a Banquet. The best talent on the Dartmouth. Musical Clubs is being imported direct from Hanover especially for the Pow Wow and is. assured of almost continuous employment for the two days.

The program committee has arranged to bring to Chicago nationally known Dartmouth men from all over the country to address the various meetings and participate in the discussions. The College Administration, the Board of Trustees, the General Alumni Association, Alumni Council, Athletic Council and other alumni bodies will all be strongly represented. They are coming to tell the alumni what they are doing and what they are planning to do and to entertain helpful, constructive suggestions from the alumni in regard to the problems they are confronted with.

A special committee is concerned with the reception and entertainment of the wives of the visitors. A complete program has been arranged for the women and there will not be an idle moment for them during the two days of the Pow Wow. Many alumni have announced that their wives are coming along with them and the Chicago alumni are doing everything possible to make them welcome and see that they have just as good a time as the men folks.

Class secretaries, class agents and active class workers of all kinds are busy stimulating "On to Chicago" campaigns among their constituencies. Old class rivalries that had their beginnings in the "Football Rush" many years ago have been revived and are adding to the zest of recruiting for the Pow Wow.

Fraternity chapters, honor societies and other campus organizations are planning special reunions at the Pow Wow. Some of the alumni have also been instrumental in shifting the scene of national business conventions to Chicago so that Dartmouth men attending can take in the Pow Wow at the same time.

Louis P. Benezet, Superintendent of Schools, Evansville, Ind., is mobilizing the entire Dartmouth membership of the National Education Association—meeting in annual convention at Chicago the week following—and he promises to have every man here in time for the Pow Wow. He has also pledged himself to "deliver" Evansville,. Indianapolis and Peoria, Ill.

Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha and other lively Dartmouth centers in the Middle. West are imbued with the spirit for a 100 percent Pow Wow attendance. Boston, New York and other large Eastern Dartmouth points are very much alive and active elements are stirring up the "peerade spirit" that always enables Dartmouth men to arrive at the right place at the right time.

Every member of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago is maintaining personal Pow Wow correspondence with at least ten—and in some cases, fifty, one hundred or even five hundred Dartmouth men in other sections of the country. All this mass of correspondence is directed toward swelling the ranks of visitors to Chicago and the Pow Wow and the results have been splendid— though not surprising.

If you haven't yet made up your mind to go to Chicago for the Pow Wow, do so at once and let the Chicago men know immediately. If you have already made arrangements to attend the first national convention of Dartmouth Alumni ever held—see what you can do about bringing some other good Dartmouth men along with you.