Chicago

THE ASSOCIATION has enjoyed a busy month. Coming as a surprise attraction, Osborne Cowles, the new basketball coach, spoke at a weekly luncheon and was cheerful about prospects for the coming season; he was commended on guiding an inexperienced squad to second-place honors and returned the compliment in a geographical way by informing us that most of his boys came from the Chicago area.

About 150 resident firemen were rounded up at the luncheon of March 31 to hear Professor Bill McCarter '19, Director of Athletics. After giving a clear and complete survey of athletic policies, schedules, and a discussion of the Ivy League (mostly the creation of sports writers), he took on and satisfied all questions asked. Although the official football prophecy for '37 is gloomy, Bill said that he and other unofficial critics expect a respectable squad —a remark that astonished very few of his audience.

On April 3, Saturday night, the Dartmouth Musical Clubs entertained over 500 Hanoverian enthusiasts. The Glee Club impressed many of the older men as one ranking with the best of other days and was particularly effective with "Dartmouth Undying" and "The Hanover Winter Song," the former being sung twice by popular request. Specialty numbers were much enjoyed, and the audience was wowed by an addition to the Club of over 100 more or less talented but decidedly vocal alumni in a rendering of several traditional numbers.

Likewise enjoyed and measuring to the standard of predecessors was the Barbary Coast which played after the intermission succeeding the Glee Club concert. Amply refreshed at this point, many of the local stalwarts were as startled as the Italians around Madrid when the Coast settled down on a swing number—when volume was wanted, there was plenty of it. The party was a grand success, as was stated by a stumbling alumnus who arrived just in time to see the Coast packing up instruments at 3:05 A.M. Profits thereof go to augment the Scholarship Fund of the Association.