Boston

THEY CAME 650 strong! Reminiscing white-haired sages, prosperous looking business satellites of the pre-war classes, and smooth-cheeked neophytes of the Selective System era—all gave proof to that old adage that Boston Town is one of The Dartmouth centers, when they met February 9 at the Copley Plaza for the 73d annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association.

These men of Dartmouth were honored in hearing two such speakers as our own President Ernest Martin Hopkins and Dr. James Rowland Angell, president-emeritus of Yale University. They witnessed retiring President Robert Holmes's presentation of the accolade to Mr. Carl F. Woods '04, Past President of the Alumni Council, for the most distinguished service to Dartmouth; and finally in a somewhat lighter vein, they saw the 1938 football season paraded in review by movies through the efforts of Head Coach Earl H. Blaik and Coach Harry O. Ellinger who also supplied the narration.

The gathering approved the new elections of Harvey P. Hood '18, president; Lawrence H. Martin '28, David A. Perry '24 and Donald W. Gardner '27, vice presidents; Donald K. Norris '28, treasurer; Paul L. Guibord '36, secretary; Robert W. Williamson '27, publicity director; John O. Crawford '31, D. O. C. representative and also the elections to the executive committee of Charles V. Raymond '30, Daniel G. Robbins '33, Stanley Neill '34, Paul Guibord '36, and Dana S. Prescott '37.

In his speech President Hopkins pointed out that his conception of the true purpose of a college was that of graduating men who would be intelligent followers of good leaders, not men craving immediate action but with no conception of what that action should be. A college, he said, should see that the student maintains a contemplative state of mind and a general attitude towards life and learning, that he may be able to apply his intelligence to actual problems.

The President went on to say that due to the increasingly fewer opportunities, a youth's educational period will have to be extended. He pointed out that due to the increase in applications the problem of admissions is becoming much greater; but he also disproved the belief of some that to enter Dartmouth it was necessary to attend a private school.

Prefacing his speech with a rare subtlety of Wit, Dr. Angell went on to describe Dartmouth as a rare institution willing to try the new but continually avoiding the specious clap-trap devices in education; for this, he gave credit largely to President Hopkins.

In conjunction with his new capacity of educational advisor of the National Broadcasting Company, Dr. Angell revealed the amazing possibilities of radio as a new educational device. "We are faced in this great new device of radio with a new means of appealing to human thought, of broadening the base of education or destroying the integrity of thought; depending on how we use it."

Such dignitaries were seated at the head table as: Merrill N. Davis Jr., football captain; Robert F. McLeod, football captain-elect; Harry O. Ellinger, line coach; William H. McCarter, graduate manager of athletics; Sidney C. Hayward, secretary, Dartmouth College; Lewis Parkhurst, Philip S. Marden, John R. McLane, Victor M. Cutter, and Edward S. French, Arthur H. Ruggles, trustees; and Warde Wilkins, Alumni Council; and Clarence G. McDavitt, president of the Athletic Council.

When yours truly left the Copley with strains of Dartmouth songs floating through its hall-ways, there were plenty of men wishing that the event came much more often than once a year.