A busy spring climaxed a busy year in Hanover—not only in the sense that there's been a lot going on, but October piled on September, and the first- thing you knew, June piled on May. Looking back, Dartmouth men's retrospect is bound to be contrasting according to activity, but there's at least one impression they all have in common—their reaction to the passing away of the fine old man of Dartmouth tradition, Edward Tuck. That death affected every undergraduate, '41 up the line. Edward Tuck was revered as a sort of permanent fixture lending solidity to the Dartmouth scene. We looked proudly on his advancing age, and as a Dartmouth editorial implied, his death was like the death of one of the green trees around Dartmouth Hall.
Well, it's the Bema and good-bye for the Class of 1938, it's reunion for the alumni; it's a three months' vacation for the Baker chimes and the undergraduates . . . .
and next fall, new blood: '42 to replace '3B It's been a good year.