CLASS OF 1879

In the class of '79 there were only two, Cohen and Garrettson, who came from New York city. Thus far, from the Metropolitan district, there are about 325 applicants for admission to the next freshman class. A committee of local alumni, of which Judge Hough is chairman, has been organized to assist Professor Bill in . making his selections. Some time ago, when the writer told the Judge that he did not envy him his job, he was met with the suggestion that the list would "melt away." Later, after the committee had divided up the work, and the Judge had spent three Saturdays interviewing 40 of those allotted to him, he was asked how the melting was getting on. Rather shamefacedly he said that every one of the 40 seemed proper material and each could give a good reason for wishing to go to college and particularly to Dartmouth. If Bill asked him to cut the 40 down to 35 perhaps he could express a preference, but if he said cut to 30 he was stumped. As a weeder out he was no good. He told about one lad who expected to have to work his way through, and seemed capable of doing it (from his own earnings he had nearly enough saved for freshman year). The Judge asked him why he wished to go so far away as Hanover, when there were plenty of good colleges nearer home. The boy replied that he had a brother, studying medicine at Cornell, who knew a lot of men from many different institutions, and this brother said that, of all he knew, the Dartmouth men were most loyal to their college and therefore it must be the best one. The youngster, convinced by this line of reasoning, was firmly bent on going there, though Cornell and Amherest had each offered a scholarship, while Dartmouth could give no special financial inducement.

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