CLASS OF 1908

As usual, there is a lot of '08 news this month. But practically none gets into this column, because the Assistant Secretary has seen no classmates lately, and those to whom he has appealed for help must have forgotten his address. I once saw a very small lad learning to swim. He was dropped out of a boat 30 feet from the dock. His father stood on the dock with a life-ring on a line. Halfway in the kid almost sunk. With his bulging eyes on that line the kid fought and struggled and nearly strangled, but no line was thrown to him. If you 'oBers like to see somebody struggling alone, all right. But unless you toss in a line once in a while the class news in this periodical will be as scanty as Miss America's bathing suit.

Quite a bunch of photographs have come in lately from Pach Bros. By the next reunion, at this rate, we'll have pictures of all the classmates. That's what the class voted to do at the 20th reunion. They are fine pictures, and you chaps who have not seen any have small idea how intensely interesting it is to see these portraits of men, many of whom have been missing from most of the parties the class has had since 1908.

Art Anderson is operating a three-hundredacre gentleman's estate in Loudon, N. H., and motors there practically every week-end. Art has a well diversified effort on his estate, combining a dairy, turkey ranch, and extensive hay cutting and baling for market.

Here is a communication from a classmate who asks to be anonymous. You all know him. The matter of the class' 25-year fund is no new problem. Here's the letter:

"In the January issue of the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE there is an editorial under the title of 'A Chance For Memorials,' which tells of how much good Dick's House is doing, but goes on to say that 'the provision of this practical memorial is one thing and its upkeep is another. To meet this contingency there has begun to gather a nucleus of memorial funds, ranging from $10,000 down, the income from which will be employed to defray expenses in such cases as cannot be met otherwise; a sort of endowment, in short, which admits of almost infinite expansion with the progress of time.'

" 'The suggestion is therefore obvious that in this lies an opportunity for classes in quest of some suitable method of memorializing their members, whether singly or in groups, as well as for individuals anxious to provide an enduring testimony of those dear to them, since such additions need in no case to be of great magnitude.'

"It seems to me the above is worth considering with an eye toward our Twenty-fifth Reunion. I believe there are some men who feel we should not make any twenty-fifth year gift to the College, but on the other hand there are many others who feel not doing so would be a reflection on 1908. Therefore, it seems to me our class officers should take the matter of a twenty-fifth year gift under advisement at once, in order that there may be time to investigate the advisability, if the gift is finally made, of applying it to the upkeep of Dick's House. There may be more worthy objects in Hanover, and possibly the College would prefer funds for some other purpose, but it seems to me that certainly Dick's House is worthy of consideration by the proper officers of our class."

Assistant Secretary, Milford, N. H.