Astronomer Fox '02

To the Editor:

I AM SURE that Arthur Fairbanks '86 will pardon my calling attention to a slight error in his article on Edwin Brant Frost. In the list of astronomers who had been trained by Dr. Frost, he speaks of Dr. Philip Fose of the Acller Planetarium. This, of course, is none other than our good friend Phil Fox '02, who learned his astronomy under Dr. Frost in Hanover, became his assistant, followed him out to the Yerkes Observatory, became head of the department of Astronomy in Northwestern and then, as the account says, became director of the Adler Planetarium.

Phil came to Dartmouth (from Kansas) because he was a cousin of Ernest Fox Nichols. He is one of the most versatile men that ever entered Dartmouth. He was a glee club singer, an excellent violinist, a player of some brass instrument in the band, a track athlete, a football man, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and an excellent student. If he had spent four years at Dartmouth, he would undoubtedly have been one of our famous athletes, but coming as a transfer from Kansas State College, he was ineligible to compete for the Green. However, he is a Dartmouth graduate and a most enthusiastic son of the college.

I thoroughly appreciated Mr. Fairbanks' article and hope that we may have more like it. "Ed" Frost was a rare soul.

Office of Superintendent of Schools,Manchester, N. H.,February 1, 1936.