Class of 1894

Secretary Merrill informs us that he has at last got to work upon an account of the Fortieth Year Reunion, and Phil Marden has agreed to see it through the press. So about the time that this issue of the MAGAZINE goes to .its readers the members of the class will probably have this account in their hands. Meanwhile, for the sake of any others that may be interested, it may in brief be said this reunion was attended by forty-seven living graduates out of a possible sixty-three—the percentage being 74.6. This was sufficient this year to win the '94 Cup for reunion attendance, and we understand that the nearest about 10% behind. However, in 1914 the class reached an attendance percentage of 83.3%, but that year we were nosed out by the class of '64. There were three non-graduates present, so that the exact number were present that the Secretary said he "hoped" would be there, in a circular letter sent to the class in September, 1933. There was an attendance of twenty-three wives and six children.

REUNION INFORMALITY

The reunion was characterized by the utmost informality. There was an absence of "events," and a plethora of just sitting and talking. There was an absence of standing and talking, especially at the class dinner, where there was no toastmaster and no set speeches. The class dinner was held at Lake Morey Inn, and it seems to be unanimously voted that hereafter class dinners be held either there or at a similar place, beginning at around six-thirty o'clock instead of the usual eight o'clock or later.

In addition to getting together at the class dinner there was the usual stag party Saturday afternoon at John Clogston's Camp Eyedsaso, between Orford and Lyme, and the class spent a delightful part of an evening in looking at some moving pictures which Curly Bartlett sponsored. While the men were "stag-ing" at Eyedsaso, the ladies enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. A. M. Stone, Mrs. A. K. Hardy, and Mrs. G. E. Mann at Stonecrest.

Kent Knowlton celebrated his return from the reunion by an immediate excision of his appendix. Reports from Kent's pastor are that he is bearing up bravely under the loss and has returned to his duties at the editorial desk of the Lowell Courier-Citizen.

One of the facts that emerged at the reunion was that instead of having two judges, namely one in New Hampshire and one in New York, we also have one now in Vermont—namely, Judge Rufus B. Barton of the Windsor County Court. It will be remembered that in Vermont a presiding judge is expected to have two laymen sitting with him in order to help him make his decisions. This is Rufus' job, and in addition he performs many, if not all, of the duties usually assigned to a county commissioner.

When a man starts something the usual expectation is that he will be expected to see it through. Ajax Rollins was the "deusex machina" who brought together the New York State Council of Churches and the New York Council of Religious Education. Naturally he has been chosen as the first president of the merged organization.

It is not probably generally known by members of the class and other interested Dartmouth men living in New England that when they open their telephone bill every month they can, if they will, read a personal message from B. A. Smalley. It is entitled "Between Ourselves," and is written in the best Smalleyian manner. The rumor is that this publicity stunt of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company is considered a model for all the allied organizations of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. One of B's favorite devices is to make a mistake in one issue and then correct it in the next!

NOTICE TO MOTORISTS. Leave Claremont on Route 12. About a mile south of Claremont, on the right hand side, look for "Rossiter Overnight Guests" (or something similar); turn sharply to your right and go up a lane, where you will find Timmie Rossiter and his wife waiting to receive you.

That was the Secretary's happy experience one day this summer.

A recent newspaper item mentions an address at the weekly luncheon of the Whitefield (N. H.) Rotary Club on "Mollycoddle Schools of Crime" by Paul R. Jenks of the Flushing (N. Y.) schools and Whitefield. He is reported as saying that New Hampshire is getting for fifty cents of its school money what other states have to pay a dollar for, and that crime is the result of mollycoddling.

Secretary, 14 Beacon St., Boston