CLASS of 1910

Attorney Gay Gleason has been cutting quite a wide swath in insurance counsel circles. Thanks to Pres. Pineo we have a clipping from The Insurance Field telling about the annual convention of the International Association of Insurance Counsel held at Swampscott on September 15-16.

Gay as vice-president of the Association and general counsel of the Employers Liability welcomed the members to the Bay State and sold them on some of the nearby historical places. He also stated that the first liability policy in the United States was written in Massachusetts.

Mac Kendall has moved from West Chicago to Sterling, Ill., because of a readjustment of his railroad territory. The old latch string hangs out to all Tenners.

Dr. Thayer Smith and wife beg to announce their versatility. After having a whole basketball team of boys in a row, the need of a female cheer-leader became apparent so little Miss Smith appears on July 14 in a household that was preponderantly masculine. We would suggest that some of the legal talent in the class go into a huddle with our medico friends.

The labors of a class secretary are explained a bit by these figures. During the year just closed your Secretary sent out 331 personal letters, 640 postal cards, and 1,388 Bulletins making a total of 2,459 pieces mailed during the year. He received 326 letters and 70 postal cards.

The response was such as to permit a large volume of class news to be published in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and special editions of "Tenner Topics." We were able to publish 87 news items about different Tenners once during the year—54 twice—29 three times 13 four times—7 five times—and 4 six times making a total of 194 different men about whom we received information.

Without question there has been a considerable revival of class interest, as is evidenced by Andy Scarlett's success in raising our quota of over $5,000 for the Alumni Fund in a difficult year. Twenty-two more men subscribed than in the previous year.

Pres. Pineo has been traveling again. By chance he ran across "Easty" on the train from Chicago to Milwaukee. This man Eastman, who is now in good physical condition, spent a month this summer with his family in northern Minnesota, and claims to have established a camp record by catching five fish that weighted 100 lbs. That would be a pretty good yarn anywhere along the coast but to come from the wilds of the Middle West well, to be perfectly frank, it is the first time we ever heard of "wine bricks" being sold in that Milwaukee town. We need news items about each and every Tenner. Send them in.

Irving Scott is vocational instructor functioning with the Vocational Guidance Department of the school committee of the city of Boston. "Scotty" has been unusually busy this year trying to get his men placed in the lines to which they are best trained and adapted.

The following new addresses will assist Tenners to keep their lists up to date: Richard S. Hursh, 421-425 West Erie St., Chicago, 111.

K. V. R. Nicol, 2100 Board of Trade Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Malcolm Stanton, Res., 150 Hunnewell Ave., Newton, Mass.

George E. Chamberlin, 90 Broad St., New York city. Oliver A. Johnson, Bus., 131 State St., Room 519, Boston, Mass.; Res., 137 Pine Ridge Rd., Waban, Mass.

Harold S. Winship, Bus., Maxwell-Davis Inc., 64 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn.; Res., 588 Broadview Terrace, Hartford, Conn.

Leon B. Kendall, Bus., In care of C. & N. W. Railway, Sterling, Ill.; Res., 311 9th Ave., Sterling, Ill.

James J. Kerley, Bus., Constr. Engineer, Treas. Dept. Kittanning, Pa.; Res., 114 Rebecca St., Kittanning, Pa.

Ralph A. Sherwin, Bus., 222 Summer St., Worcester, Mass.; Res., 40 Dayton St., Worcester, Mass.

Albert G. Ferguson, Bus., 40 Broad St., Bos- ton, Mass.; Res., 34 Garrison Rd., Brook- line, Mass.

Walter M. Price, Bus., 181 West 135 th St., New York city (Same for Res.).

Leo M. McCusker, Bus., 919 E. Pico St., Los Angeles, Calif.; Res., 853 N. Ogden Drive, Los Angeles, Calif.

Charles L. Crawford, 1323 N. Franklin Place, Milwaukee, Wis.

Max L. Holmes, Bus., 107 Vesey St., Newark, N. J.; Res., 69 Edgar St., E. Orange, N. J. The New York World-Telegram ran a three-column photograph of Ben Ames Williams on September 30. Headed "Ben Ames Williams at Work in Summer Studio," it shows Ben in shirtsleeves at typewriter. A fine study of him. A paragraph explains "A photograph taken by his son, Ben Ames Williams, Jr., in the author's workshop on Beaver Island, Lakeport, N. H. Mr. Williams' new novel, 'Pirate's Purchase,' will be published Friday by E. P. Dutton and Company."

President Pineo Jackson was a later summer visitor in Hanover.

In sending items for our sub-column "25 Years Ago" it is well to remember that we are trying to have them concurrent with the same months of that period. If you happen to recall happenings of our first winter in Hanover, try to get them to me as far in advance as possible, for all class items must be prepared and sent to the alumni editor about one month in advance of the publication of the MAGAZINE.

"Juddy" will appreciate your class dues Harold L. Judd, 1100 Forest Road, Lakewood, Ohio.

Don't forget to send in items of all kinds interesting or not. We need them.

"25 YEARS AGO"

College was now well under way and 1910 was assuming a more important place on the horizon—true, it had required several individual scraps and some water-trough duckings of a few oppressors—but results is results.

Tenners had big feet that were particularly well adapted to "wooding up" in Doc Bowler's "Smut" lectures, and the good Doc seemed to like it—through improvement in technique it was gradually extended to many other courses.

Being a gang of thoroughly progressive and cosmopolitan students, 1910 in lieu of close friendships with our immediately preceding class walked around Hanover and established a list of formidable "Fratres in Urbe" headed by Ed Orrill, Jake Bond, Alex, Jim Haggerty, Tony Pelton, "Gilsey" O'Neil, who wore his Coney Island bathing suit as winter underwear in the College Hall pool room, Joe Sandwichman with the whiskey tenor, Hamp Howe, who later sold horses to Bill Dudley—at al. Charlie Chinaman was voted in after we stole his stairs. Andy Marshall of restauraw fame was no mean frater.

Football with an inexperienced squad was not progressing so well—we trimmed Maine 4-0 with Johnny Glaze's placement kick in the last five minutes of the game, Heinie Hobbs, Larry Bankart, and Kid Stuart being the only Tenners to play there being no substitutions.

Mass. Aggies was taken in to the tune of 26-0—and there was more optimism around the campus, Ben Lang and Heinie Hobbs being the two outstanding linemen, while Pat Hathaway and Kid Stuart did a good job in the backfield. The class of 1910 had several men in the game, including Richmond, Hobbs, Pevear, Tobin, Harlow, Stern, Bankart, Driver, Dudley, Stuart, Steward, and Baldwin.

The last Saturday in October saw a much disappointed feeling, as Dartmouth was unable to get more than a 0-0 score with Williams at Springfield. The most spectacular event of the game was blocking of a punt by Keith Pevear. The lineup was le, Kennedy; It, Hobbs; lg, McDonald, Pevear; c, Brusse; rg, Tobin; rt, Lang; re, Prichard; qb, Glaze; lh, Bankart; rh, Stuart; fb, Greenwood.

New Hubbard, the mushroom, is completed, its dedication being several vicious water fights to test the new hose nightly Webster Hall and the Fayerweathers, North and South, are under construction Pip Cowan elected captain of the freshman football team, which defeated Lebanon High School October 17, 10-0.

Total enrollment of the College 1,133, being divided into 29 graduate students, 200 seniors, 202 juniors, 294 sophomores, 340 freshmen, 39 Tuck School, 40 Thayer School, and 61 Medical School.

October 29 saw one of the most memorable nights of our College career—the Bridgman Block fire. It started about 2 A.M., and within a few minutes it seemed as though the entire freshman class were present. Reason advanced for such a quick outpouring was that the upperclassmen were more leisurely and subdued in their habits and emotions regarding Hanover fires, while this verdant young crop still experienced all of the thrills that go with a fire alarm.

Freshmen were seen everywhere and into everything—Allen's drug store being a great source of supply—students would dash out with arms full of boxes and establish caches nearby—and then dash back again but the congestion in the store soon became so acute that all one could do was to fill pockets, shirts, pants, and sway with the mob until you got near the door—one guy even stuck pipes and pencils around the tops of his high shoes. Occasionally the volunteer firemen would turn the hose into the burning store it might knock a perfectly good box of chocolates from someone's hands, but there were plenty more near by.

Finally all were driven out by hose play, as falling timbers were becoming dangerous. At 4:25 the street wall fell in, and at 6 A.M. the ruin was complete.

And then the check-up and location of booty—one pink-faced young freshman who never smoked had 17 pipes, most of which were BBB's, but being a good trader he soon possessed a great variety of wares another called in three or four classmates to pool his six five-pound boxes of chocolates, and to his chagrin found that two of them contained hot water bottles and other rubber appliances of no value to a young bachelor one certain room had chocolate-covered almonds for many weeks, a bit smoke-tinged, but after the first week everyone was used to the flavor—some generous person passed around soiled lemon drops in a freshman lecture one day—many bumps, and not of the cultural variety, were the result tobacco and cigarettes were in abundance, and more than one student smoked his first cigar in the heydays that followed.

All in all it was a great event to undergraduates none of whom paid much attention to the fire they were concerned with the booty and the firemen's hose to this day there are a great many deeds being narrated, many of which cannot be printed.

The Hanover Gazette ventured the opinion that at one stage of the fire ONE MORE EXTINGUISHER WOULD HAVE PUT IT OUT—also that a louder fire alarm was needed. One of our "Fratres in Urbe," Ed Orrill, was a Big Shot around town for the moment—getting his claims adjusted, finding a new location, taking a business trip to Boston, etc., etc. One of Ed's specialties was telling credulous undergraduates what he claimed to know about the personal habits, whims, and fancies of faculty members and it was a plenty.

"Chuck" Emerson's advice at our matriculation was so excellent that it can bear repeating. He told us to develop four senses a sense of time, a sense of proportion, a sense of humor, "and common sense. Few Tenners acquired the first two during our first year, at least—but they sure did specialize the last two—especially in that "High School Math" course conducted by Pete Fletcher.

"Chuck's Marriages" were coming to light each day and one of the top-notchers was Harold Winship and Jim Colgan others of interest were Heinie Barrett and Dick Carpenter, the Red Piper Donovan and Joe Bartlett Bill Dudley and Doc Foster Chet Scott and Ike Allen Bill Deering and Mike Straus Earl Nelson and Abiel Wood space will not permit others at this time.

Some freshmen had to distribute handbills for Follette Isaacson's "Boston Safety Fountain Pen"others had to move their own furniture back into their rooms more than one night after sophomores would pound on your door, yell "Fire!!," rush into your room and move everything out hurriedly helterskelter.

There will be more next month if you fellows continue your contributions. We need one or two prize snapshots of our early College career.

Jimmie Frame has gone into the fruit business at Canterbury, N. H.raising apples and peaches as sort of a side line to his engineering activities in mining and geology.

Bill Harlow's son, William, is a senior at Hanover. Bob Woodcock's son, Bob, Jr., is a junior. Rollie Reynolds' son, Robert, is a sophomore, and in the freshman class we find Dave Johnson's son, David, Jr., Charlie Libby's son, Harrison W., and Ray Sheets' son, Roger.

A fine list, with 1910 about to enter the years when our representation in College will reach its largest numbers.

Not long ago the New York Sun ran the following as part of an editorial: It is very apparent that Rollie is continuing his good work in educational circles.

"FROM FATHER TO SON"

"Dr. Rollo G. Reynolds, headmaster of the Horace Mann School, thinks that fathers should spend more time with their sons than they ordinarily do. Too often, in his opinion, the father comes home from his office with mind occupied by the thoughts of a busy day. He may perfunctorily glance at the boy's school report or speak of his physical appearance. Then his mind reverts to his own business affairs or social diversions.

"In an address delivered the other day Dr. Reynolds suggested that fathers regard the rearing of their sons as their most important enterprise and that they set aside sufficient time for the purpose."

It is not the desire of Marion, Katherine, and myself to impose our sorrow on others we have determined to carry on as Purman would have us but it is timely that we should mention our appreciation of the many, many kindly and helpful expressions that have come to us from Dartmouth friends.

President Hopkins in a sympathetic letter to us writes clearly what we have experienced during recent weeks: "There is not very much that can be said under such circumstances, and words are but feeble tools under any conditions. I simply want you to know at this point in particular that the brotherhood of Dartmouth men is no figment of the imagination and that personal friendship is not an empty form."

None can know this better than we who have a keener realization a deeper feeling of what Dartmouth friendships truly mean. It might be well for all of us to stop a moment, and ask ourselves if any finer friendships with our fellow men have entered our lives than those made with Dartmouth men.

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