CLASS OF 1910

There is no better method of reporting Guy Spokesfield's story of the Stanford game than to reprint the following letter: "I must get this report off to you in time for the next issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

"The class was represented at the Dartmouth-Stanford game by George Thurber, Ed Raabe, Winsor Wilkinson, and myself. What kept the rest of the Westerners away is beyond me, but they were the losers more than anyone else. Everything went along swimmingly, even to some Amherst alumnus being thrown into the swimming pool during the stag dinner Friday night.

"You have all read about the game, but there are a couple of things I want to say about it.

"First—I have seen nearly all of the games Stanford has played this fall, and without a •doubt she played the very best game against us that she played all the year. Just to be sure this is more than an opinion of my own, I have talked to a lot of people since the game and most of them make the same statement right off the bat before I have a chance to ask them for their opinion.

"Second—Stanford's defense against passes was the best I have seen on this coast by any team this year or any other year.

"As for myself, I have already had two suits of clothes slapped right off my back by people wanting to know where we got such a fine crowd of fellows as that bunch on the team. Of course all I have to do is to throw out my chest and say 'Why not? Have a look at us fathers!'

"And here's one for the book. At the game several Stanford enthusiasts sat right behind me. When they stopped one of our plays these people admitted Stanford was good. When we stopped a Stanford play they said "Oh! He slipped.' But when Morton stuck His right toe under the ball and gave it a Tide they said 'Boy—How that man can punt!'"

Guy always does a good job for the class. George Thurber, local banker of Nashua, N. H., supplements Spokes' remarks with additional items of interest regarding both the game and his own peregrinations.

"It has been a long time since I got your nice letter of September 26, which was forwarded to me out in North Dakota where I -was rusticating. I had a fine rest there for about eight weeks and then went on to Los Angeles with my uncle, C. B. Little, where I visited with him for about a week, and then -went on to San Francisco for the Stanford game.

"The Pacific Coast alumni certainly turned out in a body, and the night-before party in the Hotel Fairmount was a decided success. For some reason, good or bad, the dinner was staged in the room where the swimming pool is located, the head table being set at one end of the pool and the tables for the diners around the other sides. Naturally the acoustics of this room were not too good, and that, coupled with the fact that it was a rather wet party (one exuberant brother so far forgetting himself as to go in swimming with all his clothes on in the midst of Al Priddy's address), made it a bit difficult to follow the various discourses. But the old spirit was certainly there in bunches, and I think every alumnus on the Pacific Coast from Seattle to San Diego must have been present.

"1910 was represented by Guy Spokesfield and W. D. Wilkinson, and there was a slight dispute whether 'yours truly' was representing 1910 or 1911, because Bob Sanderson '11 sat at the same table with us and insisted that the balance of power be maintained. Spoke and Wilk wanted to know all about Hanover and the crowd back East, and sent their best wishes to all 'Tenners.'

"The game was a corker, and even if we did not win it, we upset Pacific Coast dope materially. They had it all figured out there that we would probably be beaten by three or four touchdowns and furnish just a fair practice game, and suffice to say they knew differently before the team got through.

"I am back on the job now and will try to follow your good advice. Thanks for your letter and the cheerful dope you passed onto me while I was laid up."

While reading Capper's Magazine recently I happened to run across in "The Thinkers" column the following quotation from our own Ben Ames Williams:

"Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him."

Ben has the faculty of "hitting the nail on the head." A recent issue of the Wisconsin News carried a double-column picture headed.

"TORRID PUPPIES" WHILE YOU WAIT. The picture showed two men in white smocks and white caps—also a nice-looking lady. Hence this reprinted explanation is necessary.

"It looks like free lunch at the Plankinton Packing Co., Muskego Ave., and Canal St., with Mr. Culver, president and general manager of the company, and Mr. Eastman, president of the Milwaukee Rotary Club, the hungry participants. Rotarians today were the guests of the company on an in- spection tour of the plant. Bernice Ray, plant worker, is shown serving the 'hot dog' sandwiches." "Easty" is one of the butchers in the picture.

We observe from a University Club Bulletin that Ray Gorton is bowling this winter on the "Dartmouth Team" at the Intercollegiate Tournament. Wonder where "Roge" Farwell is.

Bob Woodcock's son, Robert L., Jr., is now in his second year at Hanover. He was a member of the freshman class last year. A study of the Address List of Dartmouth Secretaries as sent out by the college shows these Tenners in various alumni activities: Cliff Lyon, President Dartmouth Club of Holyoke, Mass. Karl Maerker, Secretary Dartmouth Club of Western Penn. Harold L. Judd, President Dartmouth Club of Cleveland. Jack Bates, President Dartmouth Alumni Ass'n of Oklahoma. Scott Perry, President Dartmouth Club of Buenos Aires. Harold W. Robinson, President Association of North China. "Nick" Carter, member Dartmouth Alumni Council, Western States. "Ec" Hiestand, same as from the Pacific States.

From time to time it will be your Secretary's purpose to write up in these items some Tenner who has done a particularly good job in whatever line of activity he is pursuingnot necessarily in the acquisition of wealth nor in the upbuilding of commercial enterprises, for not all of the good in life is measured in dollars and cents.

We have Tenners who are very active in educational, religious, medical, social (not pertaining to the Upper Crust of society), and other work, as well as men well known in their local, commercial, industrial, and banking fields.

The first subject is a Tenner who has rated considerable editorial space in New York papers of late.

This will interest most of us, as we have children whose scholastic welfare concerns us deeply.

"Who's Who in Education" gives us the following facts to start with: Name—Hollo G. Reynolds. Birth—Cambridge, Vt., March 81, 1886. Address—5.51 West 120 th St. Married to Alice Hine McCarthy on Novem- ber 19, 1911. Children-—Robert Hine Reynolds, George Rollo Reynolds, Mary Elizabeth Reynolds. Education: Elementary Schools of Cambridge, Vt. Brookline High School, 1906. Dartmouth 1910, A.B. Teachers College, Columbia 1920, A.M. Teachers College, Columbia 1921, Ph.D. Teaching Experience: Juniata College, Huntington, Pa., Instructor History 1910-1911. Elementary School, Cambridge, Vt., Principal 1911-1912. High School, Stowe, Vt., Principal 1912-1914. High School, Morrisville, Vt., Principal 1914-1915. State Board of Education, Montpelier, Vt., Executive Secretary 1915-1917. T. N. Vail Agri. School, Lyndon, Vt., Director 1917-1919. U. S. Boys Working Reserve, Vermont, State Director 1917-1918. United War Work Drive, Vermont, State Chairman 1918. U. S. Army Education Corporation, France, Germany, Lecturer 1919. Educ. Survey of Schools, Greensboro, Assistant 1920. State Summer School, Vermont, Director 1920. Dept. Educ. Administration, Teachers College, Associate 1920-21. Educ. Survey of Schools, Baltimore, Md., Assistant 1920-1921. T. C. Summer School, New York, Instructor 1921. Associate in Educational Administration, T. C.

Membership in Phi Delta Kappa. Rollie is now known as "Dr. Reynolds" to his associates and pupils. He is professor of education in Teachers College of Columbia University and principal of the famous Horace Mann School, which has around 800 pupils, a faculty of 80, and an annual budget ■of $300,000 to permit the demonstration to graduate students of the best in sound educational theory.

The fame of the Horace Mann School is well evidenced by the 90,000 visitations it has annually from every state of the union and 40 different foreign countries.

Eollie is in great demand as a public speaker—last year making over 30 speeches from Maine to Texas. He has delivered a commencement address in Alaska and another in Panama. This last summer he was invited by the Ministry of Education in Germany to make a study of their schools in 14 German cities, and while there gave addresses in German at five universities.

In addition to the above, this product of the famous Shurtleff House Gang plays a mean game of bridge, keeps up his musical training, and in his spare moments acts as co-author for a new arithmetic that is about to come off the press.

Rollie's oldest boy, Robert H., is now a Dartmouth freshman, rooms in Richardson and plays a clarinet in the band. Another son will enter in four years.

The class will remember that two Tenners, Walter Golde and Rollie Reynolds, gave "Dear Old Dartmouth" to the world.

We are indebted to Pres. "Pineo" for the following clipping which every Tenner with children can well afford to read. The New York Herald Tribune ran this story:

MENTALITY TEST ENDED AS GUIDE AT HORACE MANN

Grouping of Children Has Proved Unfair, Principal Reports: "The classification of children into bright, normal, and backward groups on the basis of their scores in intelligence tests has proved unsatisfactory, and will be discontinued at the Horace Mann School of Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Rollo G. Reynolds, principal of the school, announced yesterday in his annual report to Dean William F. Russell of Teachers College.

"A conviction that intelligence tests were unreliable as a means of grouping children and a belief that such tests were helping to make education an instrument for abstract intellectual development rather than a medium for the development of well-rounded personality led to curtailment of the use of such tests, Dr. Reynolds said. Intellectual snobbery, jealousy between teachers, and parental pressure to place their children in the bright group were cited as among the byproducts of such tests.

"The decision foreshadows a general reaction through the country against the overuse of intelligence tests, Dr. Reynolds believes. American educators have become dissatisfied with the extremes to which a group of test-crazy psychologists have gone, he declared."

Calls Segregation Unfair

"Teachers College was one of the leaders in the adoption of intelligence and other tests as a means of classification of pupils. Today, according to statistics of the Federal Bureau of Education, pupils in the public schools of sixty-six American cities of 30,000 or more population and thirty-six cities of 100,000 or more are subjected to such tests.

"Segregation on the basis of intelligence tests, which at their best measured only one small segment of a child—his ability to master abstract subject matter—proved unfair and ignored the more vital considerations of emotional stability, home conditions, interest in a subject, and ability to get along with people, Dr. Reynolds said.

"In place of the intelligence tests, the estimate of a teacher who had one year's experience with the child, the ability of the child to achieve, and consideration of his home life and his likes and dislikes will form the basis of grouping. No bright or dull groups will be formed, although children who experience difficulty in subjects will be given personal attention.

"More than 100 children have received special treatment from the 'remedial staff,' with a resultant gain of from one to three years' achievement by pupils who would have been classified as backward under the old system according to Dr. Reynolds, who added that 50 per cent of the defects of such students could be corrected by this method."

Divergent Results Cited "One example was that of a boy in the fourth grade whom reading tests rated two and one-half years behind his class. Diagnosis by the 'remedial staff' showed that the boy suffered from a narrow reading span. Twelve short reading lessons placed this boy again on the fourth-grade level.

"Another boy, with an intelligence quotient of eighty-nine upon entrance, scored 116 when the test was reported three months later, and 116 at the end of a year. No test which gives such divergent results can be considered a reliable basis for classifying children, according to Dr. Reynolds.

"A reaction was inevitable, because such tests appeared to rest fundamentally on the false assumption that the purpose of education was to develop intellect.

"Whether a person learns depends as much upon his desire to learn as upon his ability. The labeling of students as dull and bright has done a great deal of harm, by making one group feel inferior and the other conceited. The belief in the magic of intelligence tests rests upon a false analogy between the natural sciences and psychology. The whole may be the sum of its parts, but a personality is more than a composition of legs and arms. This the intelligence testers have failed to realize."

Rollie lives at 501 West 120th St., New York city, and he is getting lots of fun out of life—enjoying perhaps most of all his contacts with the youngsters.

Another Tenner, Buck Allen, is making considerable of a reputation for himself in educational circles around Boston. Buck is headmaster of the Rivers School in Brookline, and recently had our old friend, Prof. Lingley, speak to the parents of his pupils on Dartmouth's Selective Process.

The affair was held at the home of "Demon" Hawkridge 1911, and among those present were Elsie Jenness and Ben Williamsalso Art Lewis 1908 and Josh Clark 1911. The class of 1910 was one of Prof. Lingley's first classes at Dartmouth. The scholastic hit we made with him at that time must have survived the ages, for the night before Buck had him at Boston, Rollie Reynolds entertained him at some masters' meeting in New York.

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