A Contagions Example

COMMENTS ON ALL sides during and after the reunion and Commencement festivities in June were to the effect that some beneficent influence had fallen upon Dartmouth men and had created a spirit of restraint and of temperance that was evident in the week-end celebrations. The coming of the class of 1925, promising bigger and better cannon fire, was awaited with trepidation. The return of a horde (about 160) of Thirtymen, the largest number of reuners in Dartmouth history, was anticipated with mixed feelings. Old- sters in 1920 might celebrate too enthusiastically. All prophecies were wrong. "Il was a fine reunion—the best ever." That was the general comment and old residents predicted that this was the end of an old era and the beginning of a new one, that repeal has made more temperate the tastes of men who engage in a period of celebration. It is our impression that they had a better time in June, but that headaches and regrets were fewer.

Is a good example contagious? If so, we may all look forward to next June with some complacency.