Second National Dartmouth Pow Wow at Chicago
FOE the second time in modern Dartmouth history the sons of the college will gather in the Mid-West to celebrate the appearance of two Dartmouth football teams, varsity and freshman, and to re-unite themselves in even stronger bonds of fellowship and goodwill. This gathering which has already taken upon itself the name Pow Wow, which promises to become traditional, is set for November 23rd and 24th, and in the elaborate preparations which include special rates on the railroad, class meetings in groups, massing of the green sections at the varsity game with Northwestern at Evanston and the freshman game at Chicago with Lake Forest, a huge meeting morning, noon and night at Hotel Stevens on the day before the varsity game,—these preparations, with many others that mean a happy time and an exciting one for all Dartmouth men and their wives and children, betoken as the great fact that the family of Dartmouth men which onceclaimedmodestly a large alumni in the New England and eastern states has now extended in volume into the middle west.
As at the Harvard games at all times when Dartmouth men come from every section of the United States, so men with their families will go to Chicago for this Pow Wow and exhibition of Dartmouth teams. They will come from every state in the union, if the present advance news is correct, and they will leave a much more definite impression of Dartmouth enthusiasm upon the middle west than even the first Pow Wow brought in 1925 when a remarkable Dartmouth team visited Chicago and played a most, remarkable game of football against the University of Chicago. One can not say exactly what it means to have such great gatherings away from Boston or New York or even Philadelphia,- it rather startles the older generation to see such an expansion, but the startling process is by no means a disagreeable one, and for the easterner who has never been to a western meeting or a far-westerner who has never realized how the power of the college is marching out steadily to meet him, to both of these the size and spirit of the Chicago gathering will be a revelation.
What one looks forward to of course is the selection of San Francisco or Los Angeles in some future years for a gathering of clans. And the curious part of it is in these sectional meetings that there will be just as many men from away as from the immediate locality. The automobile may play a part in this, and the Dartmouth Medicine Man in Chicago is praying for good weather on the Pow Wow date. The result is one of the most pleasant things imaginable, and that is that men who have not seen each other for years because of long distances between will meet and talk over the years and good times of long ago; curiously enough this gathering will draw men to the middle west who would not think of coming otherwise, particularly those of middle age who settle in one place, and yet yielding to the demands of such an occasion as this will go out to the Pow Wow. Thereafter the distance will seem much shorter than it had before and the visitor will be ready for the next distant Pow Wow in a country where distances are being constantly chopped. Perhaps the airplane will play a part in the next Pow Wow. It may in this. Indeed the Dartmouth coach and the director of athletics at Dartmouth are taking this trip from Hanover to Chicago by airplane. There is pioneering for you.
And so with such a welcome assured in Chicago, with all arrangements made for your comfort, with all the discomforts of tourism set aside, why not take this trip if you can, and on Nov. 24 fall into the most friendly hands that ever welcomed a son of the college. The entire program is printed below.
