Thayer School News

It is sad to open this column with the news of Professor Fletcher's death last month. But as he was first in all our hearts so must the announcement of his passing be first in the news of the month. Elsewhere in this issue is a more complete account of the death and a more fitting tribute to the life of our beloved director. The funeral services were held in Professor Fletcher's College street home Thursday afternoon, January 9. The active pallbearers were C. E. Boiler '97, F. W. Garran '3311., E. H. Hunter '02, F. F. Parker '07, Harold Rugg '06, and R. J. Putnam. The honorary pall-bearers were F. E. Austin '95, G. W. Barnes, A. W. French '92, E. M. Hopkins '0l, O. E. Hovey '89, R. R. Marsden '09, and E. J. Morrison '93. Mr. A. C. Tozzer '03 was unable to attend the funeral on acocunt of illness.

The annual meetings of the Thayer Society held during January in New York and Boston are scheduled too late to be reported in this issue. The accounts of these meetings will be included in the March letter.

The outstanding undergraduate event of the month occurred one afternoon in the testing laboratory when a 28-day test of a 6-gallon-per-sack concrete beam in the rupture machine failed under the weight of the apparatus alone. A recheck of the design proportions showed that owing to a slight error a water-cement ratio of 12 gallons per sack had been used instead of the expected six gallons.

An announcement was received recently of the marriage of Catherine Sarah Dodge to Gordon Granger '31 in Saint Paul's church, New Rochelle, N. Y.

A letter from Bill Bradt '36 enthuses over the job which he left school last summer to take. He is a special agent for the Federal Union Insurance Company in the state of Wisconsin. His job requires a good deal of traveling in connection with the supervision of agencies and licensing of agents throughout the state, work involving a considerable amount of responsibility.

Ed Foley '34 was cavorting on skis around Spy Glass Hill Farm, the new headquarters of Dartmouth at Moosilauke, for several days between Christmas and New Year's. He's still driving Chevrolets, but we have to take the bad with the good, and he has an excellent position as parts and accessary representative of the Chevrolet Motor Company, Tarrytown, N. Y.

E. H. Hunter '02, who has been active in public service in New Hampshire for many years, has been appointed consulting engineer for Public Works Division of the state comptroller's office.

In the same general line of practice is Harold Parker '08, as director of projects with the WPA in Boston.

Carl Parsons '33 has recently been appointed to an engineering position for the Green Mountain National Forest. He may be reached at "U. S. Forest Service, Rutland, Vt.," and will probably reply on stationery of the Howard Hotel, Bartlett, N. H., unless his supply runs out. I ran into Ed Coakley '33 in a moviecamera supply store in New York just before Christmas.

A recent letter from Ray T. Gile '79 tells of his continued active practice in Littleton, N. H. One of his jobs last summer consisted in bushing out, with two other men, several miles of pipe line in the Littleton public water supply conduit.

Edward Dana Hardy '91, who retired in July, 1934, from his position as principal engineer in the United States Engineer Office, is touring the country in his automobile. He plans to spend this winter in St. Petersburg, Fla., following which he expects to tour the West Coast during the late spring and summer months.

Miss KATE SANBORN begins a course of Friday morning lectures at Dr. Howward Crosby's Church Parlor, New York City, March 14. Miss Sanborn has become quite a favorite in New York and will, undoubtedly, meet with a flattering success.

. . . . The Baseball Nine will be allowed to accept challenges to play games abroad during one week in the spring E. J. Bartlett '72 graduated at Bush Medical College, Chicago, Feb. 25, 1879. He comes to Hanover this week to enter upon the duties of associate professor of Chemistry. .... The Sophomore Glee Club, consisting of C. E. Kimball, C. B. Little, E. G. Kimball and J. F. Philbrick, sang at a reading by Miss F. H. Churchill of Boston, at Lebanon last Wednesday evening. .... The family of our late President Smith has returned from New York City. William T. Smith has located in Hanover for the practice of medicine At the Mott Haven intercollegiate sports last week Dartmouth had two representatives, C. H. Cogswell 'BO and T. Flint '80. Cogswell won both races in which enteredthe half-mile and quarter-mile runs, the former in 2 min. 12 sec., and the latter in 54V, sec. .... (From reports of meetings of Dartmouth Athletic Assoc.) In the half-mile run Cogswell took the lead and came in in 2 min. 1/ sec., beating his Mott Haven time by sec The quarter-mile run was the prettiest ever made on the campus. Cogswell 'BO came in in 54 sec., beating again his Mott Haven record. .... The "Sack Race" was a most amusing event. Little '81 started out at a lively hop, making one hundred yards in 2814 sec., the best on record. Greeley '81 came down the course with a phantomlike hop that reminded one forcibly of Banquo's ghost hopping after Macbeth. . . . . The seniors will have their "Sing Out" in the chapel on Friday at 5:00 o'clock P.M. All are invited Prize speakers are the following: senior class, L. E. Blair, H. H. Mclntire (vice C. M. Hough, resigned); junior class, D. J. Foster, John H. Niles; sophomore class, O. H. French, C. H. Beckett; Scientific Dept.: first class, W. M. Mason, A. G. Lombard; second class, M. A. Beale, J. H. King, third class, F. C. Baldwin, N. B. Porter. .... (Baseball, condensed summary.) The College Nine played games during April and May, only two of them on the home grounds. Four were with college teams. Of these four Dartmouth lost two to Harvard by scores of 5-2 and 11-3. One was won from Brown 4-3, and one from Amherst 4-2. The lineup in most of the ten games was as follows: Thayer '80, 2b, Capt.; Ripley '80, If; Proctor '79, ss; Partridge '79, lb; O. P. Conant '79, cf; Sutcliffe 'BO, 3b; Cram 'Bl, c; Perry '80, rf; Rundlett '81, p The following members of the class of 'BO have been chosen to direct The Dartmouth during the year ending in June, 1880: Managing Editor, W. E. Barrett; Editors, W. E. Badger, CSD; G. A. Dickey; W. B. Fellows; W. F. Furman; E. F. Jones; F. Morton; J. E. Savage, CSD; A. L. Spring.

Notes from the Seventies Excerpts from THE DARTMOUTH, issues ofSept. 1878 to June 1879