Ist Floor: Heneage and Coombs '07, Harry Coburn '06, R. Rugg and Richardson 'OB. 2d Floor: Blatner and Balfe '06 and who else? 3d Floor: Tom Field and Dinny Black '07, Jack Wallace and Carpo Carpenter '07, Ted Redington '07 and Jack Clark '08.
For the issue of the MAGAZINE covering the first month of spring is offered a picture of one of Hanover's classic halls which many Dartmouth men of recent vintage never saw, one which all the Dartmouths, no matter how grand and glorious the output, never will see. It's none other, gentlemen, than famed Hubbard House, known affectionately as the "Pest House." It was a mighty good looking building, that Hubbard, too bad it couldn't be spared by throwing a couple of Bissels and Rollinses to the gods of progress. Well, anyhow, it stood just south of Chandler which can be seen indistinctly, fortunately, in the right background. Hubbard, as even an old graduate of 25 years should be able to discern, had three layers, or floors. In the fall of 1904, when 1908 were freshmen, the first floor was occupied by Rip Heneage and Bub Coombs, two of 1907's most industrious campus policemen; Harry Coburn '06, Bob Rugg and Kid Richardson, both 'OB. Among those who had beds and left things around on the second floor were Bill Blatner and Toots Balfe, a couple of '06ers and "who else?," Jack Clark, who contributed the picture, would like to know. On the top floor lived Tom Field, Dinny Black, Jack Wallace, Carpo Carpenter and Ted Redington, all '07, and Jack Clark 'OB. Most any of the boys who remember campus politics in the old days should be able to go on with the story from here.
The "Pest House." Fall of 1904