Class of 1905
I am glad to state that there was an increase in attendance at the Harvard game class dinner. Thirteen were present, namely, Roger Brown, Chamberlin, Clough, Donnelly, Emery, Harding, Hatch, Loder, Proctor, Reeve, Jake Smith, Stevenson, and Wallis. Call, Reid, and Wilkins expected to attend, but were prevented at the last moment.
Football in general and the prospects of the Harvard game were roundly discussed, and Stevenson gave us some very interesting first-hand facts on the team and the material coming up next year from the freshmen. He also spoke about the progress and plans of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE staff for the future. The evening was an extremely pleasant one, and everyone hoped that next year would show another increase in the percentage of attendance, as it is the only time of the year when the class has a regular get-together between reunions.
Ike Maynard's reply to a recent letter shows that he would gladly have been one of the number present; also that correspondence should not be relegated to the lost arts. Here it is:
. . . You have no idea what a tug at my heartstrings your letter gave. Located so far away and seeing only one member of our class occasionally, I refer to W. M. Rogers, a letter like yours is as welcome as the sight of a ship to a shipwrecked man on a desert island
"Mrs. Maynard is well and quite busy, as our daughter, who recently graduated from Vassar and just returned from a summer abroad, is making preparations for her marriage in the spring to Edgar A. Guest Jr-
"The Dartmouth Club in Detroit is quite active, and I usually attend each Tuesday.
"I have two young Dartmouth men in my employ, and I also have a very loyal Princeton man. They are getting up a party to see the Dartmouth-Princeton game.
"It was certainly good of you to write. I enjoy hearing from you and hearing news of some of the fellows. When you see any- one who would be interested, please give him my best regards."
Shirley Cunningham is temporarily at the Hotel Emerson, 166 West 75th St., New York, between business trips. He enclosed a clipping from the New York Times of October 17, announcing the marriage of Bill Knibbs 3d to Miss Lila A. Lopez, October 16, at New Rochelle, N. Y.
The ceremony was followed by a reception at the Larchmont Country Club. Mrs. Knibbs attended the Thornton-Donovan School, New Rochelle; the George School, Pennsylvania; and the Finch School, New York. She is a member of the League for Service of New Rochelle. Bill attended Exeter and Dartmouth, graduating in '34. The class extends congratulations and best wishes to the young couple.
Ed Day was one of the principal speakers at a recent meeting of five hundred educators at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York under the sponsorship of the Educational Records Bureau and several units of the American Council on Education. This gathering was representative of the independent public schools and colleges throughout the country. Quoting from the October 30 New York Times:—
"The suggested need for recasting of school procedures to conform to a new social order came from Edmund E. Day, director of social sciences and general education of the General Education Board, a Rockefeller unit, who spoke on 'Basic Responsibilities of General Education in America.'
" 'ln our own times social changes have been SO' extensively and rapidly induced that the maintenance of social stability has become a task of huge proportions, taxing the resources of education in all of its varied forms and phases,' Mr. Day said. 'For the time being, the more pressing duties of general education relate to ways and means of effecting an adequate social solidarity, not to methods of adding to the forces making for cultural change.'
"Mr. Day not only found flaws in methods of training youth in fundamental subjects but saw the schools failing to cultivate intellectual power, which, he held, was one of their primary responsibilities.
"Democracy, in its American version," he said, "consolidates two basic doctries—'the maximization of individual growth and development through freedom and the largest possible equalization of individual opportunities,' and 'the settlement of controversies between groups or classes of individuals by peaceful means through resort to discussion, persuasion, the ballot acceptance, and appraisal.'
" 'With the transmission of these doctrines from generation to generation the American schools must be profoundly concerned,' he continued. 'What I have just stated is something more than a plea for a typical program of Americanization. What the schools need to get at is a constellation of attitudes. As a social order, we face growing collectivism. Of this there cannot be the slightest doubt.
" 'No longer can the common interest be thought to emerge as the net resultant of the interplay of freely activated individual enterprises. No longer, in other words, can we rely so largely on the invisible hand of Providence as often cited by the classical economists. The individualism we have known has played its part. On the whole, it has played it well. But it must give place now to a tempered, moderated individualism, effectively conditioned to serve the public interest.' "
LATEST!
The announcement that Ed Day has been elected president of Cornell University to succeed Dr. Livingston Farrand next June brings to the class great pride in the ability and success of one of its members.
Heartiest congratulations from us all are unanimously extended to him with a feeling of confidence that he will not only successfully meet the duties and responsibilities which are his in this high office, but will continue to extend the sphere of his fine influence and accomplishments.
The press throughout the country has published the details of his professional career, so that all are familiar with them, and to restate them here would be idle repetition.
Rufus, the class lines up and salutes you!
Secretary, Riverbank Court, Cambridge, Mass.
