Alumni Dinners

The spring succession of annual alumni dinners has this month been accompanied by two long trips westward by President Hopkins and a tour of Pennsylvania by Dean Laycock. The first of the President's long circuits included alumni dinners in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit and Cleveland and dinners of class agents in Boston, New York and Chicago.

More than 750 attended the Boston dinner in the Statler Hotel, March 7. The class agents of Boston had their dinner the preceding night at the University Club. The President, accompanied by R. C. Strong, went to New York after the Boston meetings for a class agents' dinner at the Century Association.

There were 300 present at the Chicago dinner March 11 at the Blackstone Hotel. A meeting of Chicago class agents followed. At the Milwaukee dinner, March 13, there were 125 alumni, and 90 attended the Minneapolis gathering the following night. The Detroit dinner, March 16, drew 125 and the Cleveland dinner, March 17, attracted 75.

The President, accompanied by Sidney C. Hayward, left Hanover for his second journey March 23, for alumni meetings in Washington, March 24; Omaha, March 26; Denver, March 27; and St. Louis, March 30.

Dean Laycock's itinerary included Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. His first engagement was for the annual dinner of the Alumni Association of Central Pennsylvania at tfcie New Harrisburger Hotel in Harrisburg, followed by the annual meeting of the Pittsburgh association at the University Club in Pittsburgh. The Dean then went to Philadelphia for the large annual get-together of the Alumni Association of Philadelphia at the University Club.