1895

It is probable that some '95 men do not yet know that the secretaries of classes and regional associations meet annually, in May, in Baker Library at Hanover, as guests of the College; and discuss problems of a minor nature. The Secretaries' Association appears to be a valuable adjunct to the administrative machinery of Dartmouth. It is a sort of clearing house where jolts and jabs may be smoothed off, or perhaps eliminated. At the last meeting of the Association, there was lively jolting and jabbing. This ruction was chiefly due to the Eleazar Wheelock murals in the grill-room of Thayer Hall. These represent the Founder of Dartmouth College as a rollicking, bibulous old boy standing by Richard Hovey's 500 gallons of New England rum dispensing a plentiful supply of it to his Indian students. The objection raised was not to the artistry of the murals, nor to their creditable illustration of Richard Hovey's song. But the one central objection was, and still is,—that historically the murals are grossly misleading. What Dartmouth man would not resent propaganda, from without the now large Dartmouth family, insinuating that Dartmouth College was founded by a pious hypocrite, teaching sobriety but acting like a bar room habitue? Why should Dartmouth men, then, acquiesce in spreading on the walls of an attractive building in a room frequented by hundreds of students and their friends and relatives every year, such a misleading (historically) representation in oil and color as the Thayer Hall murals? As a caricature and an illustration of the song Eleazar Wheelock, the murals are excellent. Historically they are unintentionally false.

The Class of '95 was polled during the summer regarding the murals. There is not available space in this issue to record the response pro and con. The next issue of the MAGAZINE will contain some of the answers, however.

Dr. and Mrs. Jesse K. Marden came to the United States from Athens in May on leave of absence. They were planning to visit Mrs. Stevens and me early in August on their return from California. But on August 7, Jesse wrote as follows: "TodayX ray examination has revealed the fact Ineed an operation. This upsets all myplans. I was just on the point of writingto your son that I would see him at hisHospital Saturday. Perhaps later we maymeet, if all goes well. My steamer reservation I have asked to be cancelled. Withwarmest greetings to Mrs. Stevens andyourself" etc. Later, Mrs. Marden wrote that an operation had been performed, removing the left kidney. Dr. Newhart '95 was present at the operation and was well pleased with the result and the prognosis.

Here is a quotation from the Minneapolis Tribune of May 27, 1939, regarding Dr. Newhart. "Dr. and Mrs. Horace Newhart, 212 West Twenty-second Street, returned Thursday evening from the east, where Dr. Newhart attended the seventysecond annual meeting of the American Otological Society held at the Westchester Country Club, Rye, N. Y., Monday and Tuesday. Dr. Newhart was elected president of the organization which is the oldest of its kind in the world and is composed of prominent teachers and research workers in the field of otology. During their stay Mrs. Newhart visited her sisters, Mmes. Charles Thaddeus Terry and William W. Rossiter."

Secretary White River Junction, Vt.