CLASS OF 1906
Roy Brackett and Dorothy Gile, daughter of the late Dr. John Martin Gile and Mrs. Gile of Hanover, were married in Hanover on August 10.
Art Farrington, whom we were unable to locate at the time of our reunion, has been found in Akron, Ohio, where he is the manager of a large store. His home address is 218 Turn Oaks Road in that city.
Bug Gardiner returned about September 1 to his construction work at Medellin, Colombian Republic, after spending the summer with his family in Minneapolis. Nat Leverone, who saw him off from Chicago, says Bug was still talking about the good time he had at the reunion. Nat also reports having seen in the last month Bucky Kraft, who was about to leave Chicago for the Pacific Coast on a business trip, and Ike Paul, who had run up from Louisiana for a few days visit at the Metropolis on the Lake. He said the cyclone didn't scare him a bit.
Elsewhere in this number of the MAGAZINE you will read about the dedication of the Davis Varsity Field House. The 1906 men who were fortunate enough to be in Hanover on that occasion give glowing reports of this splendid gift of Shorty's to the College.
Eric Kelly has returned to his work in the English department of the College after his year of teaching at the Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland. At the time of his leaving Poland, the prorector, the academic registrar, and the professor of English in the University sent a joint letter of appreciation to President Hopkins, which so well sums up and shows the far-reaching importance of the work Eric did in Cracow that we quote the greater part of it here:
"Having become acquainted with our country and with the rudiments of its language during his war-time service with the Y. M. C. A., Professor Kelly came to Cracow in the autumn of 1925 as a scholar of the 'Kosciuszko Foundation' with the intention of devoting a whole scholastic year in Poland's oldest university to the study of Poland's history, literature, and present condition. This purpose has been carried out with exemplary industry by attendance at lectures, by classroom and library work, and by personal relations established with the representatives of the above-named branches of learning in our university and with prominent citizens outside it. Professor Kelly has not only improved his knowledge of our language, but acquired an insight into the history and the actual state of Poland, into the development of arts, letters, and sciences in this country, which has already found expression in a number of publications and will no doubt lead to more. We note with particular gratification that Professor Kelly has profited by his stay at Cracow to explore the history of this university, of its great men in the past, and of its educational methods. On the ground of these studies Professor Kelly will be eminently qualified, after his return, to lecture on Polish subjects to American audiences.
"Apart from these activities which constituted the real object of his stay here, Professor Kelly, from the very first, placed himself most generously and disinterestedly at the service of the English Department of this university, and conducted, throughout the year, lectures and classes for its students. His lectures, which covered the whole range of American literature and American civilization, and his classes, which embraced exercises in language and in the reading of English poetry (Browning), have been extremely useful and deservedly popular. He also gave a series of public lectures on the principal phases of American literature and on selected subjects of American life to city audiences; these lectures also were numerously attended and eagerly listened to. This' side of Mr. Kelly's activities can, without exaggeration, be said to have given altogether_ a new start to the knowledge of America in this centre of Polish intellectual life; and it is especially satisfactory that such a service should have been rendered to Polish culture in the 150 th year of American independence. The bonds which united our two nations since the days of Pulaski's heroic death and Kosciuszko's services in Washington's army have thus been renewed and strengthened.
"By his twofold work at Cracow, Professor Kelly has indeed worthily served the ends of the Kosciuszko Foundation, which is intended to promote better mutual acquaintance between our two nations in the sphere of academic learning, for the benefit of cultural cooperation and peaceful international progress. .The University of Cracow will affectionately remember Kelly's sojourn here and his activities, and it takes the present opportunity to express its sincere gratitude to Dartmouth College for the temporary release of this excellent worker from his college duties for the purpose of his stay in Poland. In returning Professor Kelly to his college, we wish him every success in his further academic career, and we forward this as a message of greeting to the college itself which, by Mr. Kelly's presence here, has become associated with the life of our university."
Secretary, Childs, Henniker, N. H.
