Much Ado About Nothing

Considerable interest was aroused on the campus and outside the college when it was learned that Hugo Bezdek, Jr., a freshman, son of the well-known Penn State football coach, had not returned to College. He had been warned in December before going home that he was down in his studies. After being considered "missing" for several days he turned up in New York, met his mother who was there, and went home with her to State College, Pennsylvania.

The rumor that another Dartmouth student was "missing" was dispelled January 20 when Dr. Fred W. Splint, father of J. W. Splint ex-'30, received a radio message from his son, sent from a ship somewhere on the North Atlantic.

Splint left home on January 3, with the intention or boarding the Dartmouth Special, leaving the Grand Central Station in New York. Dr. Splint soon received word from Dean Craven Laycock that his son had not returned to college. Becoming worried, Dr. Splint boarded a train for Hanover where he questioned his son's associates concerning his whereabouts. He learned that his son had been communicating with the Cunard Line before the Christmas vacation and had also sold all of his furniture.

Splint had purchased a ticket to Europe during the Christmas recess, but his father learned of the transaction and cancelled it. While Mr. Splint was in Hanover, however, he booked another passage and sailed before his father returned to New York.