Letters to the Editor
APOLOGIES TO THE CLASS OF 1885
Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:
I have just received the February number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. On page 258 I see a picture of a group of men under which you have "Richard Hovey with his 'suspended' classmates." You surely must have made a mistake in selecting the cut, as Richard Hovey is not in this picture. This picture is the '85 members of the Chandler Department, taken in front of their hall.
There is a cut which has appeared in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE in former years which is known as '85 Suspended, taken in front of the Precinct Hall.
The man in the picture whom your caption describes as Richard Hovey is Professor John Brooks. Richard Hovey was a full academic student and I think is in the picture known as the '85 Suspended.
I am writing this that you may be set right in regard to the cut in the February number. Some of the men in this group who were never suspended may not like to be given the credit or discredit attached to that word.
Barre, Vermont.
THE CORRECT IDENTIFICATION
Gentlemen:
There is a peculiar error on page 258 of the February issue. This photograph does not contain a picture of Richard Hovey and has nothing to do with the suspended members of the Academic section of the class of 1885. It is actually a picture of the Scientific section of the class, taken in the autumn of 1882. The photograph shows the following men: Back row from the left: Simpson, Bourlet, Hodgdon, White, Allard, and Wilcox. Middle row from the "'left: Clark, with the high hat, Brooks, 0. E. Hovey, Colby, Rogers, Larimer, and Melendy. Lower row from the left: Annan, Williams, Austin, Weston, Cunningham and Schultz.
Possibly you will wish to make a correction in the next issue.
71 Broadway, New York.
BIG GREEN WINS
Dear Mr. Sherman: When I was in Hanover we heard a lot about the good old days when Dartmouth men were Dartmouth men and etc. ad infinitum and further that the old place was going to the dogs because hardly half of the freshman class could hold a chew of tobacco through a class hour without either choking or spitting (one doesn't expectorate tobacco juice).
Apparently our gentle day has already become rough, tough and wooly compared to the present high standards of thought and deportment, but, nevertheless and notwithstanding, put down one vote for a reader who would prefer following the Big Green teams with you to following the possibly more accurate but not quite so stirring
Green teams.
(pre-war)
THANKS, BUCKY
Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine: On January 11, 1950, the annual meeting for election of officers of the Dartmouth "Heart of America" Alumni Association was held in Kansas City, Missouri, in the University Club- The following were elected to the offices enumerated to serve for the year 1930: George J. Winger, class 1925, president; Peter Barnes, 1926, vice-president; C. H. Kraft, 1906, secretary-treasurer; Joseph Holliday, 1924, assistant secretary-treasurer. A vote of thanks was given to the retiring officers for their unfailing efforts and diligence in promoting the welfare of the association during the year 1929.
One noteworthy thing that this association has done in the last few years was thepresentation of an athletic cup to the high school in Kansas City, Mo., that has the best average in football and scholarship. This cup becomes the property of that high school that wins it for three years. During the year 1928 the Central High School won the cup, and during the year 1929 it was won by the Southwest High School. The cup is a beautiful silver one standing about eighteen inches high, and each school winning this cup has its name engraved on same. That has stimulated quite an interest among the high schools of Kansas City and has created a lot of favorable talk for Dartmouth. It is very interesting to note that the Southwest High School who won the cup for 1929 ranked third in football and third in scholarship, but the average of the two was sufficient to rank them first.
During the Christmas holidays the annual banquet was held and was well attended by alumni members, members of the Southwest squad, and boys back home from Dartmouth for Christmas.
Our ranks have been thinning a bit owing to the migration of some of our members eastward, among whom we mention the Rev. Benjamin Washburn who is very much missed by all the members of our Association. Rev. Dr. Washburn had a call to a larger pastorate in Boston whence he journeyed with the best wishes of all the members of the Dartmouth "Heart of America" Alumni Association.
Secretary-Treasurer 402 Manufacturers' Exchange Bldg.,
Kansas City, Mo.
IN A LATER NUMBER
Gentlemen: I am enclosing a short article especially prepared for publication in some Dartmouth paper with the ALUMNI MAGAZINE particularly in mind. I hope that you will be able to use it in entirety but if not you are privileged to cut it or rewrite it as necessary. I hope it will not be necessary, however, to reduce it as a mere note because Dr. Lyman's service at Dartmouth would warrant a considerable write-up. If you desire further details or information concerning this, I would refer you to Professor Chivers of your Biology Department.
President, American Phytopathologieal Society.
ED. NOTE: The editor is in receipt of many letters which must wait until the April number. One is a correction of the Hovey picture, one from a direct descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, and another from a descendant of the famous Eunice Williams, whose name is mentioned in another column by Bishop Forbes of Ottawa.
WE STAND REPRIMANDED
Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:
Perhaps you can tell us the name of the official Intercollegiate Alumni brand of shirt studs? Or the official breakfast foods for the college men of America?
I regret very much that the Intercollegiate Alumni Extension Service has seen fit to lend itself to the advertising campaign of any group of steamships—even in the interests of patriotic hundred-percentism. And that the ALUMNI MAGAZINE should have carried its appeal, not back among the Lucky Strike testimonials, but in the body of the issue. An Oxford-Cambridge movement to boycott American automobiles could scarcely be considered a sportsmanlike thing. I for one will forget this appeal when I make my reservations.
JACOB JEMISON, INDIAN
Dear Mr. Rugg: I wrote to Mrs. A—as promised regarding Jacob Jemison, but have not heard from her. Perhaps she has gone South for the winter.
In the meantime I am wondering about the possibility of Jacob's having attended Moore's (or Moor's) Charity School which, I understand, was later absorbed by Dartmouth College. I believe that Joseph Brant went to Moore's Charity School, but I am not positive about it.
192 Mill St., Rochester, N. Y.
DEWITT DUNCAN—CHEROKEE
My dear Sir: Your article in the December number of the ALTJMNI MAGAZINE was of much interest to me. You may be aware of the information I am offering, but no mention of it was made in your article of the Indians of the class of '6l. My father, John Worthington Hopkins Baker, was a member of that class. I think my father told me there were several of them, but one of whom he was very fond and who, he said, was the most popular member of the class was Dewitt Duncan, a quarter-blood Cherokee Indian. After graduating he returned to his people, I believe, somewhere in lowa. I do not know whether he studied law or not, but I think he attended to the legal work of his people. When I came to lowa nine years ago I wished very much to meet him. However, Maj. Redington wrote that he had been dead about ten years. Maj. Redington is one of the two surviving members of that class and has been, and still is, the Secretary. He lives at 512 Lake St., Evanston, 111. He would be glad, I know, to give you all the information he has concerning Duncan and the other Indian members of the class.
Ten years ago when we broke up our home I sent the pictures of the class of '61 to somebody at the college, thinking that at some time they might prove of interest. Pres. Tucker was a member of the class. I hope they are still in existence. I would have been very glad to keep them, if I could.
611 So. Madison St., lowa City, la.
AN OLD LETTER WRITTEN BY THE LATE PROFESSOR FOSTER
Ed. Note:—This letter is reprinted in order to keep the Indian list complete. Sept. 20, 1916
My dear Tibbetts: Have you compiled a list of Indian students at Dartmouth? If so I should like to see it.
I have just been going over in my mind those known personally to me since 1881 and venture to send it to you as a memorandum in case you have not already gone over the ground. Of course my list is only a beginning and not complete. If you haven't any Indian list, I wish you could accumulate items for it, or get someone like John K. Lord to cooperate with you. I am not sure whether there were any Indians between 1885-93 years when I was not on ground.
Some Indians at Dartmouth since 1881 (incomplete).
Charles Alexander Eastmen '87, (Sioux). Harvey Wirt Courtland Shelton, nongrad. '87 (1883-86).
David Hogan Markham '15, (Cherokee, grandmother a presbyterian Scotch Irish missionary who married a Cherokee).
John Stephen Martinez '18, (Pueblo).
Bertram Bluesky, non-grad. '18.
Simon Ralph Walkingstick, '19 (Cherokee).
Francis P. H. Frazier '20, reported to me by Childs as "full blooded Sioux."
CAPTIVE INDIANS
Editor Alumni Magazine:— I am sending you an extract from a local paper dealing with Indians of interest to Dartmouth.
"C'est a l'introduction du sang blanc de captifs de la Nouvelle-Angleterre que les Iroquois de Caughnawaga doivent plusieurs des noms anglais qu'ils se donnent, comme les noms de Tarbell, Rice, Williams, Jacobs, Hill, Stacey, McGregor, etc.
"Comme exemple de ce que je viens de dire relativement k Fintroduction de sang etranger a Caughnawaga, les donnees suivantes peuvent presenter quelque interlt.
"Eunice Williams, agee de sept ans, fille du Rev. John Williams, ministre de Deerfield, Mass., fut emmenee a Caughnawaga en fevrier 1704. Elle fut appelee par ses ravisseurs: Kanenstenhawi, c'est-a-dire 'elle apporte du mais;' elle epousa un chef indien, Arosen, Le Castor. Ses descendants, vivant actuellement a Caughnawaga, sont au nombre de cent vingt-cinq.
"John Stacey, ige de quatorze ans, compagnon de captivite du precedent, surnomme Aionwatha, 'Le faiseur de rivieres,' est I'ancetre de quatre cents membres de la tribu de Caughnawaga. G. FORBES, Ptre," Missionnaire de Caughnawaga (Recently appointed Bishop of Ottawa).
There are Dartmouth names among these captives.
Odanak, P. Q., Canada.
THE "SUSPENDED" PICTURE
