GRADUS AD PARNASSUM
When the first Undergraduate Issue of the MAGAZINE was published a few years ago, the project was put forward by the editors as a method of achieving several desirable ends. First, it would acquaint alumni with samples of the best student writing and thinking. Second, it would permit several undergraduates to see their work in print and distributed to some number of Dartmouth men. Then there were other ideals such as encouraging student leaders to put their constructive criticisms down on paper; to honor certain un- dergraduates whose good works entitle them to special attention from the alumni; to demonstrate to students that alumni are interested in what they are doing and thinking, and in what goes on in Hanover.
If past reactions may be relied upon, there is no issue of the year that is as thoroughly read as the April number. Last year Kim Flaccus '33 set a high standard for undergraduate contributors with his "Northern April." He has written friends in Hanover that this verse will be published in the fall, together with other poetry within the past year.
Secretaries of most alumni classes have heard from Oscar Ruebhausen '34, Senior Fellow and author of "Some Old Dartmouth Customs." As part of his Fellowship program he has been delving into the mores of the Dartmouth tribe and to this end has been corresponding with all the old boys to find out what sociological implications may have been present in the peculiar habits of their day in Hanover. Witness the wail of Jim Davis '19 in this issue, that Oscar turned to him for information about ancient customs in vOgue in the time of the class of 1919. Jim, when your tottering classmates come back in June for your Fifteenth they will be regarded by the boys of College as among the oldest living graduates.
One of our erudite English teachers reports that he asked a freshman, in conference: "Who is your favorite philosopher?" Came the reply: "The philosopher I like best is Sabatini."
This department and all others in Hanover have been given to understand by the Outing Club through its übiquitous Dan Hatch '28 that there is good April skiing at the new Alumni Outing Club, Mt. Moosilauke, Warren, N. H. The Club has ambitious plans for the summer in the way of more trail blazing on the lower slopes of the mountain, the possible construction of an auto road all the way in from the main highway (three miles).
Bob Michelet's words just before death should be engraved sometime, somewhere in Hanover in memory of a boy and man who died as he lived, a gentleman. Hardly a moment before the end Bob rallied his strength and said: "Goodbye, Mother. Goodbye, Dad. No eulogies. Everything is on the up and up."
The following verse is one of several cont0ributions, for all of which there is not space, sent to the editors following the tragedy of February 25. It is written by J. C. Crowell, whose grandfather, Rev. Robert Crowell, was a graduate of Dartmouth in the class of 1811:
