Washington, D. C.
BYTHE TIME this is perused by alumni and consorts from coast to coast, the Dartmouth-Cornell Football Lunch and Close Harmony Convention will have been held at the Annapolis Hotel in Washington. Some hundreds of special wires direct from the 50-yard line will have been read by Gus Moran, famous Cornell wit and raconteur. At this writing we say "May the best team win" (but if it doesn't we shall harbor no hard feelings against our Cornell friends).
Since we moved to the Annapolis, several faces have been appearing at our Tuesday luncheons that we haven't seen since the time of the first battle of the Marne
Percy Russell '29, former assistant to Mr. Justice Cardozo, now a busy radio lawyer, in company with Ken Anderson '31, assistant to the assistant secretary of Commerce.
. . . . Joe Kiernan '37 (when he tackled 'em they stayed tackled) now in Georgetown Law School, gave a vivid description of the Yale game Many of our locals gathered at the Annapolis (are we advertising that hotel?) for lunch and the radio story of the Yale fracas, and staggered into the twilight very sore at Fate, with scattered symptoms of nervous prostration
. . . . but very proud of that Dartmouth team that won't give ground to anybody.
. . . . Please, Mr. Blaik, have the team score six touchdowns in the first quarter of the Yale game next year .... these final quarter uprisings are more than we old guys can stand Jimmy Pimper, of the notorious '33's, handled the details of the Yale party and did a swell job Roger Johnson, of the same gang, working on the Cornell meeting .... we are kept constantly conscious of our age by the all-too-rapid march of our class notes from the inside back cover of the ALUMNI MAG towards the front cover.
Many of our group hopped the special train to Princeton and saw that satisfying game .... special squad looked for the Princeton freshman who sneered "We're sorry for you guys," just before the production in the snowstorm two years ago when the Dartmouth team took the part of the orphans of the storm, but couldn't find him
Seems as if most of our local club works for the telephone company (or is it just because they are noisier?) and the rest are lawyers .... moderate sprinkling of Goverment employes..... two prominent members, Warren Kendall '99 and Buck Freeman, are with the Railroads.
. . . . Buck just turned up last Tuesday after being de-tonsiled, his own phrase. .... Henry P. Blair '89, in spite of being-one of Washington's busiest men, comes often, and no one more welcome Ted Stafford and George Morris, both '11, two other prominent attorneys .... do all 1911 grads have that gift of humorous conversation?
Some, or at least one, of our crowd going up to see the Columbia game .... regardless of who is on the schedule he starts worrying about Columbia early in the season. He saw that game two years ago when the boys put off getting started until too late .... the rest of us scoff at his apprehensions.
Still bright summer weather in Washington .... and autumn is always something to see in Washington .... all you traveling men are invited to drop in on Tuesdays at the Annapolis at noon.
