REUNION SPIRIT LIKENED TO CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

An unusual reunion appeal containing a thought both new and worthy of being broadcasted is being circularized by the tenth reunion committee of 1915. It is a definite attempt to meet the bugbear of expense which threatens the success of all reunions. We submit it to you!

CHRISTMAS REUNION

"Oh! Last Christmas; Well Jack, I didn't do much of anything. I was down in New Orleans and as the boss was sick I couldn't very well get more than a couple of days. Thought,, I'd wait until this year and then take a week. The kid brother was working in Chicago, and I knew he'd be about broke, so I sent him a check and some things to cart home for the folks. He stopped off and got my sister to go on home with him. So they all had a great time of it. And then Dad stops in on me two or three times a year and lets me entertain him for a few days so I get pretty much into the spirit of it."

Isn't Reunion time at Hanover Christmas time for Dartmouth men? Should not all Dartmouth men feel the same toward the College and its alumni as a man feels toward his family and relatives ?

The writer just had a most pleasant few days in Chicago, Cleveland and New York, attending gatherings of his classmates in each city. The trip was taken primarily to further the interest in Reunion, to reawaken the enthusiasm that every Dartmouth man has. The result was as would be expected. Each and every man had the same old love for the College and the growing longing to get back. However, with some men, this getting back is a question entirely of finances, and Chicago is far from Hanover. The idea of returning to Hanover by busses came up—and the expense -was cut in half. But when the extra time to be spent, the hotels to be provided for and -other incidentals came to light, the idea lost a bit of its lustre.

Then came the thought of the Christmas spirit. If we knew of something that would please one of our family at Christmas time, we should be glad to do- it—and should be glad to have someone tell us about that one thing. And isn't Dartmouth one big family and are not her graduates and her sectional clubs the members of this family? If any Dartmouth Club should take it upon itself to make it pleasant for Dartmouth men on their way to or from Hanover, if it merely meant a word of welcome and a smile, wouldn't it somehow be in keeping with the time? Wouldn't it tend to add to the many fond recollections we all have; wouldn't it help to make the youngsters of 'OO and the old timers of '24 a little friendlier, and wouldn't it bring the North and the South a wee bit closer to Hanover and Dartmouth ?

The above is merely a suggestion. That it may be developed and that we may be instrumental in the furtherance of its development is the wish of

The Tenth Reunion Committee

Class of 1915.