Manchester

THERE WAS an increase of 16 over last year in the attendance at the Manchester, N. H., Alumni-Undergraduate Luncheon, Rice Varick Hotel Thursday December 30. Forty-four alumni and twenty-three undergraduates were present, which is the high mark for this event in the Association's calendar.

In the absence of Charles B. McLaughlin '14, the Club president, the toastmaster was Louis P. Benezet '99, whose inexhaustible store of recollections and factual knowledge of Dartmouth men and events was generously brought into use. He called upon more than half a dozen of the students present, each of whom reviewed the activities of the undergraduate group with which he is connected and described the anticipated future developments. Besides the athletic subjects discussed, both debating and scholarship were topics.

The dean of the gathering was James A. Wellman '89 who created considerable interest by displaying a melted down segment of the bell which survived the original Dartmouth Hall fire. While many Dartmouth men doubtless possess and exhibit with pride, generous chunks of the first-victory-over-Yale goal posts, none is prized more highly than Mr. Wellman's choice memento.

Interspersed during the luncheon courses and the speaking, were songs lead by John Gault '95, with Dick Willis '22 at the piano. The closing Dartmouth Song was rendered in the old-fashioned way with staccato Wah-Hoo-Wah lead by Bob Buckley '32.