PRESIDENT IN HANOVER AFTER 7500-MILE TRIP

President Ernest M. Hopkins returned to Hanover March 19 from his trip to the alumni associations of the middle and far west. The tour lasted five weeks and during this period President Hopkins spoke before fourteen alumni groups, as well as several smaller gatherings of Dartmouth graduates, and traveled about 7500 miles.

Leaving Hanover February 14, President Hopkins spoke at Albany that night, and then at Buffalo and Cleveland the succeeding evenings. The other alumni dinners of his trip were held at: Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Spokane, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and Omaha. January 9he addressed the Manchester alumni and later in January he visited the alumni associations of Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, Washington and Philadelphia. These meetings together with one scheduled for April 16 at Waterbury, Conn., of the Connecticut alumni, and another dinner of the alumni of Western Massachusetts to be held at Springfield April 17, bring the total number of associations visited by President Hopkins to twenty-two. In addition to these he has met with the class agents of the Alumni Fund in Boston, New York and Chicago, as well as with small groups of Dartmouth alumni in nearly every city which he* visited.

Scheduled to pass through Spokane at 7 a.m., Sunday morning, February 26, en route from Minneapolis to Seattle he was met at the Spokane station by twenty-five Dartmouth alumni who insisted upon his spending the day there and proceeding to Seattle the next morning. He accepted and was immediately scheduled to deliver the sermon in the largest church in the city, to attend a luncheon in his honor and following that several teas, and to meet with the alumni for their formal dinner in the evening. Owing to his almost daily speaking engagements he did not give the sermon, but accepted the other invitations.

Without exception the dinners were this year attended by larger numbers than has ever previously been the case. In Detroit the attendance was 125 and in Chicago it was 250. Hardly a Dartmouth man on the Pacific Coast failed to attend one of the dinners there, even though this meant traveling several hundred miles to reach Seattle, Portland, San Francisco or Los Angeles.