From a 1908 Mem Book

Perhaps it was some expedition like the one to the top of Mt. Ascutney, reflected in the above photograph from a 1908 memorabilia book, which started the Outing Club. Certain it was the virus which wanted to mingle with the germs of higher altitudes occasionally started working overtime in the blood of Dartmouth men in the years before the call of the wild was carded and cross-indexed as it is today.

The above stone and log hut, brothers, stood at the top of Ascutney on the only Memorial Day in 1907 when the sextet dimly shown in the middle foreground visited the spot. It may be in existence yet, although two of the Dartmouths who took part in the Springtime outing have gone on to other heights, God bless them.

From left to right, the mountain visitors were: Isaac Beauchamp Locke 'OB, deceased; Leon Baker Farley '09; *George Elliott Shipley 'OB, killed in action October 11, 1918 in the Argonne offensive; the writer of these notes; Morton Hull '09; Robert Raymond Lane '07.

* NOTE:—In a coming issue of this MAGAZINE one of these "From a 1908 Mem Book" will be devoted to a long-ago picture of "Old Red" Shipley and his heroic end in the Argonne.

Summit House