Gradus Ad Parnassum
The name of the College seems to jump out from newspaper front pages when there is tragedy. The summer has not passed without loss. .Everett Hymen '33, editor of The Dartmouth two years ago, was drowned in a sailing accident near Milwaukee on August 8. He was a brilliant undergraduate editor. Near tragedy, flavored with heroism, fell to Abe Cohen '27 and his wife in the Morro Castle disaster. Abe, popular and athletic in his student days, swam for seven hours with one life preserver for himself and his bride. They were picked up on the beach unconscious. His courage and strength saved them both.
"The Twenty Twoter" or "The Workingman's Friend" put in its regular appearance during the summer, bearing aNew York date line, this being the presentresidence of Francis H. Horan '22, longtime and much-respected secretary of theclass. It is a collection of wit, nonsense, andserious purveying of class news and gossip.As such it is highly successful and oneof the finest class reports to come to thisdesk.
"Dartmouth Out-O-Doors" is the title of a most attractive report published during the summer. Its 48 pages are filled with illustrations and descriptive matter of interest to all who are friends of the D. O. C. Anyone who didn't see John Bishop's story "Down Hell's Highway" in a winter number of The Sportsman Magazine should write to Dan Hatch and ask for a copy (gratis) of this report, if for no other reason. For Mr. Bishop's thrilling description of his first trip down the famous and precipitous ski run is reprinted therein.
Halsey Edgerton '06, treasurer o£ the College and local authority on any subject from building golf courses to building bank accounts, was recently summoned to Concord for Federal jury duty. There was no getting around it. In the midst of issuing the annual financial report and other pressing College duties, Halsey journeyed to Concord daily for a few hours of sitting in the jury box. On his first trip down, court was called, there was an immediate recess of a .half-hour, this was prolonged to an hour, and then court was dismissed. On the following day Halsey got up early, drove to Concord, was ushered into a bus with the rest of the jury (of which he was, by this time, the foreman) and escorted to North Conway to the "scene of an accident." Then all the way back to Concord they went, court, was dismissed, and Halsey drove to Hanover.
That trip was one way of getting a grand tour of the State of New Hampshire!
'l'llrough some error the name of John Pelletier and the class of 1916 were omitted from the list of secretaries and classes having 100% class notes records for 1933-34, as printed in the June MAGAZINE. The list is growing. There are only a few classes which are not represented in the Alumni Notes section in every one of the nine issues of the year.
This is the time when sharp autumn mornings bring thoughts of Hanover to those who are no longer forced to rise for chapel or an eight o'clock, but most of whom wouldn't mind doing it again for a while. The nostalgia is especially pronounced for the 454 young alumni who rushed post haste out of town in June, with the sheepskin jammed securely into an over-crowded suitcase. Very few of these, excepting only those who are back for Medic, Thayer, or Tuck work, will be hanging sweet cider jugs out of their windows or cheerily greeting Spud Bray with a clear eye and calm conscience. Four years of college have become a grand and confused memory of friends, places, and things. They will be relived often as countless others have relived them for—let's see, this is the beginning of Dartmouth's 166 th year—for a long time.
Football practice during the days before classes begin is the Great Meeting Place. Having been in attendance at every football and baseball practice for several years Dick Southgate '07 and Dan Richardson 91 are often mistaken for old D men, back to help coach the team. Dean Laycock was on hand early in the season to greet early returners. His successor, Pudge Neidlinger '23, is down at practice if he isn't in his office and so is Bob Strong '24, new dean of freshmen and director of admissions. Another dean, Dean Chamberlin '26, is busy buzzing around the field for he is directing publicity for the Athletic Council. One thing that impresses everyone is the precision with which practice moves from one stage to another during the afternoon. You can see the Army influence in Coach Blaik's "As you were!" when he wants to retract an order. No "Signals over" for the boys this year!
