Washington

WINTER ACTIVITIES of the local alumni started off with a well attended joint meeting with the Princeton crowd for the football game. The high point of the meeting was not the game but the verbal nosethumbing between our crowd who had the game coming in on two networks and the Harvard-Yale crowd who had to descend to our usual ignominious level of a direct wire report.

Christmas vacation brought six undergraduates back to town who filled our eager ears with news of the college at a party at Dr. Woodwards. While disappointing from the view of attendance, due largely to the social rush of the holiday season, it was very enjoyable to the regulars who appeared.

At a dinner February 14 at the College Club most of the yearly business of the club was transacted in addition to the festivity attendant upon any Dartmouth Night celebration. The new song, "The Wearers of the Green," proved popular to the extent of endangering the windows of the hall and lacked only the voice of Pat Kelly '09, our genial State Director of Labor, to make it a complete success. Pat, by the way, has made a remarkable recovery from his serious illness and is expected to be back on the job in a few weeks.

The awarding of a cup to the winner of the Pacific Northwest Ski Championship (Junior Division) was quoted by the club and placed in the hands of a committee to work out the details. The tremendous interest in skiing in the Northwest is still growing and the association feels that Dartmouth should assume its rightful place as the leader in winter sports activities on the Pacific Coast as well as in New England.

Predictions made earlier in the year as to the number of applications to be made from this district for entrance to college next fall have proven too modest. At present there are eight boys who hope to enter in the class of 1940. Informal gatherings to look these applicants over have pretty well filled up the alumni's schedule for the past month.

Plans at present are under way for the dinner April i to hear Professor Larmon. We are grateful for this opportunity to greet him and hope for as successful a banquet as we had for Dean Laycock two years ago.