Letters to the Editor

DOESN'T LIKE "BIG GREEN"

36 Temple Place, Boston, Mass.

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine: Will you not consider the wisdom of changing the caption of Phil Sherman's articles by omitting the "Big" before the Green Teams?

What is it that is big? The men? The scores? The college? Or is it not the college head in the aggregate?

This expression was started by newspapers on the occasion of some football team's victorious season,, and it may have been a team of big men. It was offensive even then, but as years pass and our teams reap their harvest of defeats as well as victories, constant repetitions of this adjective seems to me to make the college ridiculous in the eyes of other colleges..

It is true, of course, that certain latitude is permitted in large groups of men and that conceit is somewhat disassociated from groups. No group, however, is too large to benefit from a reputation for modesty.

Being proud of the college and her achievements I should like to enjoy the thrill, someday, of a victory by a small but well-trained Dartmouth team over a bigger opponent. For many years the press has denied me that pleasure.

The ALUMNI MAGAZINE is an increasingly fine institution. It could help this cause along.

Very truly,

NOTICE ELSEWHERE

155 Van Wagenen Ave., Jersey City, N. J.

Dear Mr. Editor:— I will be glad, as President of the Medical Alumni Association, if you will announce in one of the forthcoming issues of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, that the annual reunion of the Medical School Alumni will be held at Commencement time.

The business meeting of the association will be held in the old medical building on the afternoon of June 15th. That night the banquet will take place in one of the rooms at College Hall. Headquarters for the medical alumni will be, as usual, in Crosby, and the medical alumni are urged to send in their reservations to the college for dormitory accommodations very early.

We are hoping we will get out a considerable number of the old grads. I have recently sent a personal letter to every alumnus of the Medical School, and shall send out another one in May.

Any assistance you can give us through publicity in the MAGAZINE will be appreciated.

Very truly yours,

ELEAZAR WHEELOCK

"Vox clamaniis in deserto"

In charity, not pride, within this wildernessA Voice rang out the lonely desert knewAs sent from, heaven, to God and man most true;The call to Knowledge human need to blessWild-wandering in these wooded fastnesses.To Savage bosoms came this Herald new,Faith and learning blending in his Christianview,One unity pursuing, thro' Love's immortalstress.

Dartmouth! this Hero is thy celestial dower!Seek thou his grave, within thy burial field,And give to true Nobility its meed.Thou art, today, the bright consummate flowerOf that which only holy Sacrifice can yield,A godly faith, immortalized in deed.

THE CYCLE CLUB

Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:— I believe I can identify eight in the Cycle Club picture in the April issue: third from the left, front row, with what appears to be a soft felt hat, with a white shirt, is Dearborn '90, Nashua. Fifth in front row, wearing blazer, with right hand on handle bars, is Cobb '88. Almost directly in front of Cobb, black cap, is Moulton '89, who is, I believe, now actuary of the Vermont National Life, Montpelier. On the right of Moulton, looking at the picture, dressed in a light uniform, with arm over the handle bars is Gilman '91, deceased. Between Moulton and Gilman, slightly back of them, with a white handkerchief around his neck, is Sam Sparhawk '90 de- ceased. At Sparhawk's left, with striped cap and Norfolk jacket, sitting on a wheel, is Anderson '89. Back of Anderson, with an '89 baseball jersey, is Currier of that class—deceased, I believe. At Currier's left, hands back of him, with white cap, is Hutchinson '90. The man in the front row with the helmet, and wearing a white four-in-hand, was an '88 man, but his name has gone from me. Of the two in the extreme background, I am inclined to think the younger looking, on the left, may be Clint Cheney '90, for I know he had one of the old high wheels. The first "safety" bicycle appeared in Hanover when I was in college, and, to the best of my recollection, belonged to the son of one of the Hanover storekeepers.

Have almost worn myself to a frazzle trying to identify the remainder of the club, for I probably knew them all. The stern looking "gent" at the extreme right of the picture looks very familiar, but I give him up. I hope someone of my day will come through with a complete identification of the club members.

OUR MISTAKE

Concord, N. H.

Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:— The wide circulation of your publication and the care with which it is read are attested by the numbers of letters I have received protesting against the classification of Dr. Pitt Joyce, as "a class .team player," in my identification, last month, of the Rood House Band. As you know, this error was made in a last minute editing of copy, and I hope it is not too late to insert a rectification to the effect that Doctor Joyce played left field on the varsity nines of 1891 and 1892, the latter one of the best teams, by the records, that ever wore the Green. I think he was, with one exception, the last Dartmouth varsity man to wear a moustache. SKID PEARSON '93.

CHAMPION BALL TEAM

W. Southport, Me.

Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:— The key to picture on page 394 April number of MAGAZINE is as follows:

Upper row, left to right: Harry W. Ranlett, Spokane, Wash.; Fred A. Howland, Montpelier, Vt., at present trustee of the College; Albert E. Hadlock, lawyer in New York city.

Middle row: Dr. William Wilcomb (deceased); Judge John H. Hill, of Portland, Me.; Harry C. Sargent, resident in Europe; Charles W. Bickford, Superintendent of Schools, Lewiston, Me.; Walter Scruton (deceased).

Lower row: Prof. George E. Johnson of Harvard Graduate School of Education; Henry 0. Aiken (deceased).

Later Johnson was Varsity catcher and Scruton and Aiken pitchers on the Varsity team.

IN JUNE NUMBER

H. S. S. New Mexico.

My dear Editor:— I am enclosing an article for the MAGAZINE entitled Aviation Opportunities for the CollegeMan. I hope that it will prove of interest to Dartmouth men. In it I have avoided going into technical details. Rather it is devoted to the opportunities offered by aviation and the ways in which they can be taken advantage of.

Should anyone be interested in learning more about the technical details of flight training, these are covered exhaustively in my book. They are also treated more briefly in a series of articles starting in the March number of Airways Age.

Information about naval aviation reserve training, to which I have referred in the present article, can be secured from the commandant, first naval district, Boston, Mass., or from the bureau of navigation, Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

I appreciate this opportunity to bring the subject of aviation before Dartmouth men, and hope that they will find it interesting.

Sincerely yours,

IN JUNE NUMBER

165 Broadway, New York,

March 15, 1929.

Dear Sir:— The Class of '79, next June is to celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of their graduation.

Last year, of course, '78 had a similar function and, just before it, to the June issue of your magazine, Rev. George H. Gilbert of '78 contributed a general article entitled "The Class of 1878 at Dartmouth Reviewed in 1928."

Could you make room for a somewhat similar article in your June issue of this year relating to the Class of '79?

If so, I think we have, in Rev. Clifford H. Smith, '79, a good man to write it.

One of the features of our gathering will be the dedication of a room in the library to the memory of our classmate, Judge Hough. An unique feature of the windows of this room are small pictures of the members of the class. There is one of each man who graduated, showing how he looked when in Hanover, and, of many of them, a companion picture taken in later life.

Maybe such an article might take these as a text. Mr. Smith has given some thought to it and inquires of me:

"Faces in the Windows!"

"How's that for a title? Followed by a description of what a casual visitor would see in the portraits and what we see in them?"

He might decide to vary it somewhat, but the idea strikes me favorably. However, there is no use of going on unless you think that something of the kind would be acceptable.