CLASS OF 1908

The first winter dinner of the class of 1908 at the Dartmouth College Club in New York was held on Monday evening, November 19. There were present: John Thompson, Phil Thompson, Mike Stearns, Jack Clark, Lawrence Adler, Fred Schilling and Larry Symmes. The second dinner was held on Monday January 7th with ten present, namely: Furman, Munkelt, Miller, Perkins, Rosy Hinman, Larry Griswold, Phil Thompson, Schilling, Frothingham and Symmes. Larry Griswold was discovered sitting in the Club. He said he happened to drop in for a few days but the gang could not find out whether he was on business or a vacation. The next dinner is scheduled for the first part of March and there will probably be a final one in May. Any members of the class in New York at that time should be sure to call up Larry Symmes and get the exact date from him.

Paul M. Batchelder, adjunct professor of pure mathematics at the University of Texas, is the author of an "Introduction to Linear Difference Equations." Here's your chance to get an idea of the asymptotic form with a discussion of the gamma function in equations of the first order.

Clint Dow resigned from the Amoskeag Company's construction department last summer. Since that time he has been engaged in selling insurance of all kinds. His business address is 922 Elm Street, Manchester, N. H.

Dr. Harold Rugg, in cooperation with a number of associates and assistants, has just completed the seven year task of preparing a new series of history books for the use of school children. The new books, of which there are already over 600,000 in use in the schools, place slight emphasis on wars, the greatest stress being placed upon the world economic growth. Scrapping the separate subjects of history, civics, geography, economics and sociology, Dr. Rugg has combined them all into a new course which he calls "Social Science," in which all the elementary grades and high school children will be provided with an economic, rather than political, interpretation of the world's history. He has been encouraged and aided financially by Teachers College, which supplied him with a laboratory and research facilities with which to work.

Assistant Secretary, Hanover, N. H.