Miscellany
LAST YEAR Coach Blaik said for publication in these pages and stated later at alumni club meetings that he wanted a "tough schedule." This he certainly now has. Dartmouth has never known a schedule quite so filled with obstacles as the series of 10 games this fall. In spite of all warnings to the contrary, a spirit of optimism pervades Hanover because spring practice and early fall practice have developed the team to what the Monday quarterbacks believe to be a point that was not reached by last year's team until much nearer the end of the season.
Be that as it may. The feeling is strong that Dartmouth football hopes can with some justice be high; that, in spite of a lack of above-the-average material, the coaching staff is building a powerful team; that sooner or later the Big Green will knock down the jinx and we will beat Vale!
HANOVER RECREATION reached a high point in June and July when Storr's pond was used daily by swimmers. The Hanover Improvement Society did its best to maintain the water level in the new Pond, but engineers predicted that the first summer would not be a successful one and that a period of time would be necessary before absorption into the banks and serious loss of water would end. Since a local swimming place was Hanover's greatest need as a summer resort, the optimists look forward to next year and a full pond at the foot of Balch Hill.
VISITORS TO THE frescoes in Baker Library have been numerous during the summer vacation. No accurate count has been kept but the College guide, Dick Brierley '36, estimates that several hundred people have looked them over, listened to his lecture on the subject, and handed down their opinions. The opinions differ. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who spent part of an afternoon examining the frescoes, was enthusiastic. She told her guide that they were "way ahead of PWA projects."
Among summer residents were Harold S. Fuller '12, Mrs. Fuller, and their two daughters and son. The Fullers for the second year occupied the Chi Phi house where house rules were in force because the younger and very active Hanover generation found the house to be an excellent recreational center. The Fullers report that house rules saved the summer and that they had a perfect vacation.
Bella C. Landauer, who has given Dartmouth valuable collections of Websteriana and of many other historical items, spent a month in Hanover with her two granddaughters, children of Jim Landauer '23.
Arthur L. Livermore '88 drove up for a few days to help find an appropriate location for the Fowler portrait of Richard Hovey '85. Mr. Livermore gave the canvas to the College some years ago and it has since hung in College Hall, largely unoticed. The excellent portrait of the immortal Dick Hovey now hangs near the west entrance of Baker Library in a position of great prominence, as it should be. Few of the younger generations of alumni realize Hovey's greatness—that he is often hailed as one of America's two greatest poets (the other, Poe); that he was an intellectual giant But a rare companion of great geniality; that he was loved and admired by every man who knew him; and that his untimely death at 36 deprived Dartmouth and the world of completion of a great career.
ONE OF THE faculty, Tom Dent of the Physical Education Department, and coach of soccer and lacrosse, has taken a position of some prominence in New Hampshire as secretary of the reorganized Board of Fisheries and Game. He has been a front rank agitator for the complete removal of fish and game from politics. The bill which he initiated and sponsored passed the Legislature last spring. Great progress has already been made in giving New Hampshire a much improved conservation program and better hunting and fishing.
THE PRESIDENT'S committee for study of social life in the College resumed its extensive research and discussion with the opening of College. Frequent meetings of the group of 14 will be held during the fall. The chairman, Russell Larmon '19, is hoping to submit the committee's report to President Hopkins by the end of the first semester.
RUMORS OF A reorganization of the Dartmouth Outing Club received substantiation during the past month. Plans not yet announced and still in the process of formulation will create a much broadened base for Outing Club activities. The D. O. C. has often found itself at a crossroads—one way leading into some new outdoor activity involving expense and problems of administration, upkeep, and control; the other way keeping the Club within narrow limits, refusing to grow as demand for growth arose. Friends of the Outing Club, who all recognize its great contribution to Dartmouth, are eager to see it enabled to take care of all outdoor recreational interests in the College. This is the end toward which a reorganization committee has been working during the summer.
ALTHOUGH HE has won the championship . cup at the Southwest Harbor (Me.) Golf Club, President Hopkins this year had to be content with taking home the second flight prize. Something happened to his game (it averages in the 80's) during medal play and he ended up with the second 8, becoming the champion of that group. Prexy came back from Maine looking fine and feeling fit.
