Intercollegiate Club
Seven Dartmouth alumni have joined the Intercollegiate Alumni Club, Detroit, since its organization nine months ago. They are: Charles G. Bennett, Roscoe C. Leach, Muir W. Lind, Ralph Norton, Roy M. Owen, John B. Saunders, and Philip K. Watson. Mr. Watson is a member of the Board of Governors. The Club made public announcement last March of its plan to build a clubouse in downtown Detroit for college and university men. Membership in the Club now numbers one thousand. Schools with larger representation include: University of Michigan 272, University of Detroit 71, Illlinois 52, Cornell 39, Harvard 34, Purdue 32, Ohio State 29, Michigan State 27, Wisconsin 26, Detroit College of Law 19, Minnesota 18, Detroit College of Medicine 17, University of Pennsylvania 16, Penn State 15, Yale 14, Notre Dame 11, Kansas 11, and Princeton 10. The list includes representatives of one hundred and twenty-seven colleges and universities of the United States and Canada and several foreign countries.
Detroit with a million and a half population has had to date no representative university club. The Intercollegiate Alumni Club is an outgrowth of the Intercollegiate Association, formed in Detroit fifteen years ago. The Club was born the first of January with less than a hundred members but, in the interval to the present time, one thousand names have been placed upon the Club roster, a feat which is believed to be unequalled in Club organization inasmuch as membership is by invitation only and no paid promoters are employed. When approximately two thousand have become members, a clubhouse will be erected. One attractive feature of the Club is that it will provide a setting for the various undergraduate entertainments visiting Detroit, such as glee and musical club programs and student dramatic efforts. These affairs have hitherto been given in hotels and private golf or boat clubs. The Club will also be the Detroit headquarters for visiting college and university officials besides providing a central meeting place for the various alumni groups in the city.
