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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW YORK

APRIL, 1927
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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLUB OF NEW YORK
APRIL, 1927

From the uplifted arm of Dr. Munyon to the well dressed collegian of 1926, no advertising has ever had the pull of the testimonial. And so, let two representatives of the faculty speak their opinions of the Club. Says Bobby Fletcher: "Acknowledgment is due for the hospitality of the Club, which is highly appreciated. The success of the enterprise should be immediate and continuing. The quietness of the location is surprising. The accommodations are most comfortable. The service was entirely satisfactory, and the house, in its arrangement and furnishings, is admirably adapted to its purpose."

And Bill McCarter says: "I must add a word in appreciation of the Club. Boston was formerly the place in which the confirmed Hanoverian felt most at home; but .for me, and I think for a number of others, the Dartmouth Club has made a trip to the city a sort of combination peerade, reunion, and return of the prodigal."

February was all too short, but even so the Club did as much business as in January, keeping its rooms, well filled at all times, showinghealthy increases in the restaurant end, and having a very full house on February 21, the night of the Dartmouth-Columbia basketball game. How many there were in the Dartmouth section is open to question, but the Club handled over 200 tickets. A small detachment went to Princeton the night of the hockey game, and a larger group takes the trail to the Princeton basketball game. Additional support for Dartmouth teams in New York seems certain, with the Club serving as a central point where groups may gather, and where tickets are on sale.

The Club may eventually have to provide an information clerk. So far inquiries have ranged from the sublime, namely the three lawyers who have called up to find out the corporate name of the College, presumably for clients who wish to include bequests to Dartmouth in their wills, to the ridiculous, the man who, early in February, asked if there were any snow in Hanover. The answer to the latter was "yes." Someone asks how much it costs to go to Dartmouth, someone else what clothes to take up for Carnival, someone else what time the trains leave for Hanover. So it goes.

The New York delegation of the class of 1913 has given the Club a large photograph of the portrait of President Hopkins given the College last June by 1901. A rather unusual loan is the diploma of Nathan Moody of the class of 1795, signed by "Johannes" Wheelock. The bookshelves are gradually loading up, but there is still a woeful lack of pictures, especially of football and baseball and track teams.

The Club, along with the New York Association, has just suffered a very great loss in the departure of King Woodbridge for Detroit. His work in planning and executing the details of organizing the Club were far greater than the casual observer could estimate. His new position as general manager of the Electric Refrigeration Company comes as a great surprise to those who felt him rather a fixture with the Dictaphone Company, but its greater importance and opportunity is the answer to King's ability to get things done.

To those alumni who have yet to see the Club there may still be a bit of a thrill in rounding Madison Avenue into 38th St. and seeing the green flag hanging in front of No. 24. That more and more men will do this each month seems to be the fact.