February News of the College

Faculty Appointments

Four new appointments to the faculty to fill vacancies recently made—two in the Department of English, one in the course "Introduction to Industrial Society," and one in the Personnel Department—have been announced by President Hopkins. The appointments are as follows: Maurice James Quinlan as instructor in English, Woodburn Overstreet Ross as instructor in English, Martin Taylor Matthews as instructor in the course "An Introduction to Industrial Society," Dr. John Milne Murray '19 as consultant in Psychiatry in the Personnel Department.

The following members of the faculty have returned from leave of absence: Bruce W. Knight, assistant professor of Economics; Stearns Morse, assistant professor of English; Charles N. Haskins, professor of Mathematics; David M. Amacker, assistant professor of Political Science; and Howard F. Dunham, assistant professor of French.

Leave of absence has been granted for the spring semester to the following nine Dartmouth instructors: James MacKaye, lecturer in Philosophy; Ellsworth D. Elston, professor of Geology; James D. McCallum, professor of English; John G. Gazley, assistant professor of History; Harry F. R. Shaw, assistant professor of Economics; Nelson L. Smith, assistant, professor of Economics; Elliott White, assistant professor of English; Carl L. Wilson, assistant professor of Botany; Lee S. Hultzen, assistant professor of Public Speaking.

Alumni Dinners

President Hopkins and Dean Laycock are planning to speak at several alumni dinners during this month. On Monday, March 2, Dean Laycock will meet with the alumni of Harrisburg for their annual dinner. The following evening he will speak at the annual dinner of the Pittsburgh alumni. On Thursday, March 5, he will be the principal guest and speaker of the Dartmouth men of Philadelphia.

President Hopkins will speak at the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association on Saturday, March 7. He will subsequently attend dinners of the class agents in Boston and New York and will then go to Chicago to address the alumni there on March 11. The following evening he will meet with the Chicago class agents. The remainder of his speaking tour through the Middle West will include the following dinners: Milwaukee, March 13; Minneapolis, March 14; Detroit, March 16; and Cleveland, March 17.

President Hopkins began his spring visits to the alumni associations with the New York dinner held at the Hotel Plaza January 28. Governor Roosevelt of New York and Professor Charles R. Lingley, Acting Dean of Freshmen, were also speakers on the program at this dinner. The President met with the alumni of Manchester at their annual dinner held at the Hotel Carpenter February 3.

Honors Students at Tuck

The faculty of the Amos Tuck School has selected Joseph S. Hancourt, Kirt A. Meyer, Jr., and George D. Tunnicliff, Jr., of the Second Year class, as honors students for the second semester. These men were selected on the basis of their satisfactory attitude and ability to derive greater profit from pursuing an independent course of study than from following the usual plan of work.

They must complete only the course in General Management, the thesis and the general examination, and will be exempt from taking all other courses and examinations.

New Squash Courts

A growing group of enthusiastic squash players, composed about equally of undergraduates and members of the faculty, have welcomed appreciatively the announcement made by the Athletic Council after its meeting early in the month, that it had voted to add a building to the gymnasium to accommodate ten new squash courts. The present enthusiasm for the game has grown in spite of the handicap imposed by inadequate facilities, which consist of one converted handball court of less than regulation size.

At a meeting of the Athletic Council in New York it was voted to appropriate $80,000 for a building to be erected on the plot of ground between the Davis Field House and the south wing of the gymnasium. The building will be two stories high and will house five regulation size squash courts on each floor. It will be connected with the Field House by an arcade and with the locker room in the gymnasium by a passage way.

Mr. Larson, the College architect, is now working out the final plans and it is expected that actual construction work will be started about the first of May. This should allow sufficient time to have the building completed and ready for use by November 1.

An additional appropriation was made by the Council at its meeting to provide for a complete renovation of the shower room and lavatory which serve the main locker room of the gymnasium. For many years the students who have used the general locker space have felt that improvements should be made in the plant which has been in operation for more than twenty years.

Secretaries Meetings

The annual meetings of the Secretaries Association will be held in Hanover, Friday and Saturday, May 1 and 2. The College issues a cordial invitation to all secretaries of Dartmouth classes and alumni clubs and associations to attend these meetings and to accept the hospitality of the College for that week-end.

The first business meeting will be held the afternoon of May 1 and will be continued in a second session the morning of May 2. On Friday evening there will be a dinner at the Inn and special entertainment is being planned for Saturday afternoon and evening. A more detailed announcement of the program will be sent to all secretaries.

Few Scholastic Failures

All four classes came through the semester examinations with a record of failures which a stock market reporter would call a "new low." Only one senior, one junior, eight sophomores and seven freshmen were separated.

The inferences derived from these figures are satisfying, both as justifications of the selective process and tributes to the teaching being done in the College. In interpretation of the record made by the class under his jurisdiction, Professor Charles R. Lingley made the following statement for The Dartmouth:

"The number of separations for low scholarship at the end of the first semester of freshman year reaches a new low percentage with the present freshman class. Although the class started with an enrollment of 664, the next to the largest freshman class ever admitted, the number of separations for low scholarship reaches the astonishingly low figure of seven, which is 1.05 per cent. This compares with last year's low record of eleven separations, 1.8 per cent of the class.

"Such a satisfactory result does not, of course, come about through accident. It is difficult, however, to be sure of the weight of the influence of different factors. Opinion and not fact must be given to explain the situation. It is my opinion, however, that the excellent record of the class of 1934 is due to three major factors.

"The first of these is the theory and practice of the selective process. The various elements of the selective process, as laid down by the administration and as administered by Dean Bill, have demonstrated their wisdom and effectiveness by the decreasing number of men separated during the last 10 years for low scholarship.

"The second factor is the quality of the instruction given in the freshman year. A very large proportion of the instruction during the first semester is given by instructors of experience and by men of professorial rank. It would be useless and inconclusive to make any comparisons with previous years or with other colleges in this respect. It is sufficient merely to say that the college has made every effort to put experienced men into the task of teaching freshmen, and as far as I can judge from conferences with hundreds of them, they are fully appreciative of the fact that every effort is being made in their behalf.

"The third factor seems to me to be the evident improvement in the preparation which boys are receiving in the public high schools and in the private schools. Moreover, the students who are now coming to college seem to me to be, on the average, of better intellectual capacity, to have fully as great a readiness to take hold of the opportunities of the college, and to have a greater breadth of interest and a greater maturity of mind than has ever before been the case."

Georgia Trophy

The "football trophy" offered by the Dartmouth Club of Georgia has been awarded for the second successive time to Georgia Military College, according to a recent announcement from Allen C. Gottschaldt '18, of the Club. The cup is competed for by high schools and preparatory schools of Georgia, and is awarded on the dual basis of the season's record of the football team and the scholastic achievement of its members.

The trophy will become the permanent possession of the team winning it three times. Tech High School, of Atlanta, has one leg on the cup.

Pine Park Association

A report of the history and development to date of the Pine Park Association, that interesting example of far-sighted co-operative public spirit in the College and the community, is now in the process of publication by the managers of the park. The Village Precinct of Hanover and Dartmouth College are jointly the managers of Pine Park, represented respectively by Adna D. Storrs and Hal sey C. Edgerton.

"The valuable and beautiful tract of forested land now known as Pine Park," the report begins, "comprising acres, is located at the northwest corner of the village bordering upon the Connecticut River. With the exception of about five acres, this land is all wooded, chiefly with pine, and offers varied scenic attractions which the lapse of time only improves. Its preservation from the lumberman's axe thirty years ago, and its dedication to public uses, were due to the foresight and generosity of private citizens . . .

Far-Sighted Altruism

"In 1900 one of the lumber companies then operating in this region was trying to secure the pine along the eastern bank of the Connecticut River and was negotiating for that on the Hutchinson farm, which included both sides of Girl Brook, commonly called the Vale of Tempe. Mr. Charles P. Chase, treasurer of the College, president of the Bank, and public spirited citizen, consulted with other citizens with a view to preserving for the public this windbreak and spot of natural beauty. As a result, fifteen citizens of Hanover and three non-resident friends, subscribed the funds necessary to purchase this land. The original lot contained about forty-five acres and cost $4,000. The subscribers were Perley R. Bugbee, Charles P. Chase, James F. Colby, Frank W. Davison, Louis H. Dow, Fred P. Emery, John M. Gile, John V. Hazen, Hamilton T. Howe, John K. Lord, Charles F. Richardson, Justin H. Smith, William T. Smith, William J. Tucker, and D. Collin Wells, of Hanover; N. W. Cannon, of New York; Herbert A. Wilder, of Newton; and Edward Tuck, of Paris.

"The was held for a time by agents of this group, in 1905 was transferred to a corporation, 'The Pine Park Association,' with the above subscribers as stockholders, and later by agreement dated June 10, 1913, the present form of control was established. Under this organization the stock in the corporation was transferred to five trustees, and the Village Precinct of Hanover and Dartmouth College were made joint managers of the property for the benefit of the public.

The Hitchcock Addition

"Just prior to this, in 1912, the Association had received under the will of Mrs. Emily H. Hitchcock, another tract and comprising about acres. This Hitchcock addition consists of land on the east side of Rope Ferry Road and extends from the property now owned by Harry R. Wellman to a north line approximately marked by the trestle of the new ski jump.

"An act of the Legislature of New Hampshire, approved March 14, 1918, provides that the property of the Pine Park Association shall be exempt from taxation so long as the same is devoted solely to public purposes.

"The College owns the land west of Rope Ferry Road and south of the original Pine Park tract, including the pine-clad river bank. This tract, while not a part of the Pine Park property, has been handled along similar lines, and has been managed as if it were a part of the Park. The line of division, running east and west, crosses the ridge between the present fourth green and the fifth tee of the Hanover Country Club golf course.

Purposes

"The trust agreement of 1913, above mentioned, provides that:

'To promote the public health, growth and material prosperity of the village of Hanover by preserving its natural windbreak of forest on Occom Ridge and along the Vale of Tempe.

'To establish and maintain within the limits of such ridge and vale and any adjacent or neighboring land a park, lay out roads and walks and plant shade and ornamental trees, shrubs and flowers therein.

'And to secure permanently to the inhabitants of the village of Hanover, under suitable regulations, improved opportunities for swimming and boating on the Connecticut River, and generally to do all things incidental to these purposes.'

"The original trustees were Charles P. Chase, James F. Colby, John M. Gile, John V. Hazen, and William J. Tucker. The present trustees are James F. Colby, Perley R. Bugbee, James P. Richardson, Charles R. Dudley and Robert Fletcher. Any vacancies in the Board are filled by the remaining members . . .

Cathedral Aisle

"Soon after the land was first acquired, volunteer workers recruited by Professor D. Collin Wells, chiefly from among the College faculty, and under his active leadership, not only thinned out the trees and removed dead wood, but built the path along the bank of the river and up the slope to the golf course. At the same time 'Cathedral Aisle' was trimmed out to give the majestic beauty so frequently overlooked at the present time. This 'Aisle' extends north and south along the base of the slope. The best view of it is to be seen by the visitor going down the sloping path from the south.

"About the time the old ski jump was constructed, at the suggestion and under the direction of Howard M. Tibbetts, a path was cleared from a point near the base of the jump along the brook bed to the river, connecting with the other path at that point. Later, after the new ski jump was built, an old path from the Girl Brook Trail was brought into use, coming out near the base of the new jump."

Paths and Bridges

The report proceeds to describe the construction of new paths through the park, the building of bridges across the ravines, and the making of new approaches to the park from various directions. All told, the paths and trails in the park now have a total length in excess of four miles.

"From 1913 until 1926," the report continues, "the Managers had only a few dollars at their disposal for expenditure. During this period of fourteen years they received a total of $132.91 and expended $123.80. Most of the work which was done was handled by the Precinct and by the College from time to time. No separate account of this work was kept and no bills were rendered. Each organization met the cost of the particular job done as a part of its contribution. Such income as was received came in the first few years from hay sold; and later, when this open land was used by the Hanover Country Club, a small payment was made yearly equivalent to the previous sales of hay. In the past two years a larger annual payment has been made for the use of this small portion of the whole area. The earlier expenses were chiefly for notices warning against fire, the expense of a forester, and for thinning some young pine. Attempts have been made to keep the paths reasonably passable and to warn against fire."

Judicious Cutting

In 1917 the Managers felt the park would be improved by judicious cutting to give room and sun for the growth of the other trees. At a hearing, interested citizens approved, and in 1925 final arrangements were made and the foresting work was done with a great deal of care, to the entire satisfaction of the Managers and with very beneficial results. The net proceeds of this cutting amounted to $973.20, which was received in 1926 and the greater part of which is being held by the Managers for improvements to the park.

Permission was given by the Managers for the erection on the Pine Park property of the new Dartmouth Outing Club ski jump, which incidentally brings into that portion of the Park a large number of visitors.

The report concludes as follows: "The Managers plan during the coming season to have the various trails marked and to issue a small map of the property showing these trails for the assistance of visitors. In their judgment the most serious problem is to safeguard the Park against damage by fire, especially in a season of drought. This requires the hearty co-operation of all our citizens and is earnestly requested. The Managers will welcome any suggestions which will make the Park serve better the public purposes for which it was intended."

The Dartmouth Outing Club wishes to call to the attention of alumni the fact that all D. O. C. cabins are now locked. Keys may be obtained from the Outing Club officers in Robinson Hall daily from 2-5, except Saturdays from 9-12.

IN THE VALE OF TEMPE Showing one of the trails built as a part of the development of the Pine Park Association

AMONG THE PINES BESIDE THE RIVER Public-spirited Hanover citizens saved these beautiful trees from the lumberman's axe thirty years ago

A SECTION OF PINE PARK These woods bordering oil the river are preserved for the enjoyment of the public under the care of the Pine Park Association