Class of 1910

Writing this in a fog ... . Yale victory not yet digested .... 1910 congratulates Earl Blaik, Harry Ellinger, Andy Gustafson, and Dr. Joe Donchess and all of the others contributing to the victory, and to our own Larry Bankart for the prominent part he played in the scouting, for Larry wasn't anxious to get tied up with active assignments this fall, and only his love for the College and desire to see Dartmouth progress along honest, straight-from-the- shoulder lines caused him to reconsider • • . . he's worked hard at his business duties, made good, has a swell family, and thoroughly enjoys wife Miriam and daughters Deborah and Betsey along with a few horseshows, some skiing, boating, occasional long distance trips .... has many friends among the foremost coaching figures of the country .... can get, we heard remarked recently, as much space in New York papers as any other living coach, should he reenter active coaching .... that great sports-writer, Burt Whitman, artmouth '11, said in Boston Herald that arry has one of those few "photographiceyes in football" that can watch a game and register everything .... Larry won't thank me a bit for printing this dope, but were battering at his modesty to let the class know about a great guy .... a guy who mov'ed down to Princeton on another 'Me scouting job while his Alma Mater Was winning her first gridiron victory from an outfit that he had watched with eagle eyes all fall.

It's none too early for you fellows to start Panning on another batch of 1910 sons that will lead the entire Dartmouth family again next fall .... we've had the most sons in the freshman class so much recently that you better muster up your reserve strength for another season, and, after all, what finer fulfilment of dreams and ambitions than to have a lad up there in Hanover, with whom you can re-live those great days of one's life, a bond of interest, a community of thought that nothing could ever destroy .... we know of no place where the entire atmosphere is sounder or safer for a youth's college days than Hanover .... we'd cross off city colleges with a stroke of the pen .... a man can get urban orientation about anywhere along a life-line .... but those four basic years up there on the Hanover Plain stick, whatever happens .... Jack Dingle, father of a Dartmouth junior son, has gone writerman with an article, "Why Contests?", in Sept. National Insurance Leader .... he cites the football rush freshman year, when he captured the ball from '09 as his "greatest thrill," and packs his article with valuable suggestions .... Jack's success in the insurance field is based, no doubt, on this extract, "We, you and I, have sleepinggiants within us, and when they are sufficiently awakened, these giants do wondersfor us, and we must use them as servants inour daily efforts and aspirations. But if thesegiants are permitted to sleep, and are notawakened, we will remain average individuals, drab, colorless, and unsuccessful" .... Dixi Crosby is already planning for the 30th .... Jim Kerley sends check for dues to Treas. Ralph Paine and writes, "Allhonor to the Sons of Solomon for the newpolicy of class dues" . . . . Al Salmon is in investment business at 75 Federal St., Boston .... Les Wiggin's address is 421 6th St., N. W., Wash., D. C Charlie Kent is manager of Paper Makers Chemical Corp., Holyoke, Mass Sympathy of the class goes to Andy Scarlett, whose 86- year-old dad broke his hip in October and died shortly thereafter .... earlier in the fall Andy pointed out Slip Powers' pipe-smoking freshman son, Sam (named for his well-known Dartmouth grand-dad, Samuel L.), who, we check with Craven, is some improvement over the earlier edition .... anyway, Slip became a grand-dad himself on Oct. 1, when daughter Polly (wife of Dr. Overholt of Lahey Clinic) presented him with grandchild Jane . . . . Hal Sprague got pictures and lots of space in Boston papers when he was elected grand commander of the Grand Commandery of Mass. and R. I. recently .... Hal's life was sketched, b. Williamsport, Pa.; educ. Brockton, Thayer, and Dartmouth; naval service during War; Y. M. C. A. and Boy Scouts director; Cong, church; former pres., Brockton Rotary; Sons of Am. Rev.; pres. and gen. mgr., Kimball Bros, and Sprague, machinists. Congratulations, Hal!

Rollie Reynolds, that anything but an Intellectual Prodigy residing Hanover '06- '10, who became a nationally known figure and lecturer in the educational world, writes when queried about the youthful appearance of a wife who looks more the age of a daughter than a mother that has given two sons to Dartmouth, "May I suggest thatif you fellows of 1910 will stop beatingyour wives and be kind to them, as I am tomine, you, too, may have the embarrassment that I often have of having a wifemistaken for a daughter. Only last monthat one of their educational sessions a gentleman said, 'Well, Dr. Reynolds, wasn't itfine of you to bring your daughter to theconference!' " ... . Mickey Holmes has an expanding oil business in New Jersey .... Gen'l Grant is purchasing agent for the Cleham Shoe Co., Farmington, N. H.

.... Sheldon Smith, prominent Troy attorney, has been elected director of the Troy Cooperative Savings and Loan Ass'n .... we see occasional pictures of the large Seaplane Ramp which Keith Pevear constructed in N. Y "Dutch" Wagner lives at 175 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.

.... Ted Hill is research ass't, Botanical Museum, Harvard, residing at 23 Chauncy St., Cambridge .... Else Jenness did a great job handling details for the Harvard game dinner in the University Club, at which were Clarke Tobin, Pineo Jackson, Walter Norton, Ollie Johnson, Roge Pierce, Ralph Paine, Art Allen, Ernest Studley, Jim Everett, Gay Gleason, Slip Power, Fletch Burton, Rusty Williams, Irv Jewett, Geo. Sinclair, Cliff Lyon, Geo. Underwood, Fielder Jones, Lou Wallace, Else Jenness, Bones Jones, Charlie Fay, Monty Fall, and Ernest Stephens .... Art Lord's daughter, Eleanor, entered Smith this fall . . . . Harold Robinson sure has installed the Dartmouth spirit into his family that has been brought up in China, Harold Jr. journeying all the way from Tungchow to become a Dartmouth freshman, some 10,- 000 miles .... bank failures just reaching China hit Robbie hard, but the young lad is working in the Commons and doing his part .... the change from China to Hanover is great, and young Robbie is following his dad's footsteps to their mutual delight .... Dick Higbee, soph, son of Ed, is acquiring a Hanover reputation for picking weekly football winners .... Pineo Jackson, one of Dartmouth's truly great class presidents, and Ben Williams were gunning down in Me. just prior to the Harvard game .... the Supreme Court of Mass. bestowed an unusual honor on Cliff Lyon in assigning him as special prosecutor in the disbarment proceedings against Judge Stone of Boston, hearings of which will begin in Nov nevertheless Cliff is a rabid Dartmouth football fan, an enthusiast for the present coaching staff and system, and attends all of the big games . . . . the following Tenners were seen at the Yale affair, some with, and some without families, none displaying any incurable form of dementia: Hitchcock, Powers, Crosby, Norton, MacPherson, Tucker, Lyon, VanderPyl, Wallace, Tobin, Gleason, Seymour, Dusty Craft, Porter, Reynolds, Dave Johnson, Burton, Coleman, Heneage, Josselyn, Kinney, Payne, Unangst, Jackson, and Wolff .... the old class is staging a strong comeback, many men who have been absent for years attending the class dinner and games .... Ernest Cushman and Chan Baxter had a visit out in Washington during the summer .... "Easty" is supposed to be moseyin' around the Atlantic Seaboard .... It fell to the lot of Pres. Dave Johnson of the Country Club of Cleveland, host to National Amateur Golf Tournament, to have as his house guests Lawson Little and Johnny Goodman, occupying twin beds about 3 ft. apart and confining their scrap to the links, where Little trimmed Johnny in the thrilling final .... Dave says they are nice lads, particularly the former, who has lost lots of time at Stanford but feels compensated in the education gained from travel .... Ralph VanZant pays dues, expresses enjoyment he gets from magazine, and tells about Denver's peppy alumni club .... we'd sure like to see Van again, also that Harrison boy . . . . Kid Fowler, who has been transferred from Guantanamo to Central Espana, Prov. Matanzas, Cuba, had an operation in the U. S. Naval Hosp. so as to be in good shape for the 50th; one boy at Louisiana State, another in school at Havana; new refining process at his sugar mill; prospects looking up.

Don't forget Ralph Paine, our treasurer .... send him a check when you can spare it ... . and keep the news rolling through to us ... . Marion said Nix on Fla. this winter, so we have taken a very comfortable apartment at 399 State St., Albany, where we can swing back to work by degrees, and have one grand time doing it, for we've got a little slack in our economic trousers to patch up during the coming cyclical upswing, and our own generation is best equipped of all for that little job, with plenty of experience and background to forge ahead, and we orter have a little common sense to boot, at least considerably more than a lot of these socializing, economic reformers who never perspired in their lives .... we know some men in the class who got bumped mighty hard, but they took it without a whimper and are now on their way back up ... . we're proud of them.

YESTERYERE

That little bit of a boyish drummer in the Dartmouth Band without down on his chin is none other than Sid Hazelton's Hanover-High-School-freshman son, who drums with some of the emotional vitality his old man uses in his coaching .... Sid certainly is a coaching paradox, never did any more than cheer at football games or stand in a shower bath during undergraduate days, but he does a fine job coaching freshman football and varsity swimming .... we visited with a special cop on the Hanover-Leb road one day in early fall, and after getting quite chummy, he shoots this one, "Say, do you remember the timethe Owens boys stole the wool over inAetny? It was in either '82 or '83" . . . . Herb Wolff, who memorized word by word enough of George Davies' Greek to pass an exam, probably could reconstruct the incident in his mind, but our portsided mental dumpling don't reach back no farther than Hamp Howe's hoss barn, Jimmy Haggerty's grill and fly sanctuary, or Deacon Downing's cigaretteless apothecary shop .... nor back of the period when for 15 cents you could get "Combo No. 2" at the Commons, consisting of lamb broth, macaroni, baked potato, bread and butter, apple pie, and "any drink on the bill of fare" . . . . 20 cents got "No. i," with the broth, potato, bread and butter, apple pie, and drink supplemented with "fricassee of veal" and "stewed corn" .... "Fried scallops with bacon" could be had for 12 cents and "graham muffins" were a penny each .... "Ferris ham" was 15 cents . . . . "French fried" or "hashed brown" set you back a nickel .... a single "baked potato" 2 cents .... Ptomaine poisoning was nothing more than Doc Kingsford's "guts ache," a natural reaction from the famous Commons cockroaches, who lost their venturesome balance and fell into the big soup kettles or mixing bowls .... vitamins, proteins, and calories were unknown . . . . "pepsin" meant the bewhiskered Beeman Boys' gum .... Dean "Chuck" was mellowing, Hoppy was secretary of the College, and Johnny Finn shoved a mean trombone.

That's about as far as the old dumpling stretches this time.

Freshman Sons of 1910 H. S. Robinson, W. E. Tucker Jr., J. R. Vincens, and E. P. Wells.

Secretary, Barre, Vt.