Baltimore

A HOLIDAY LUNCHEON, down town at the Merchants Club in the week following Christmas, brought out eight undergraduates, fifteen alumni, and six boys who want to enter Dartmouth next fall. It was a happy family gathering, with enthusiasm for the College running high, especially on the part of the Freshmen (five of the six were present), each of whom seems to have found, in his three months of residence, that Dartmouth's just the place for him. Hastings '39 and Wilder '42, responding to various questions, commented on current activities and prospects in the field of athletics, intercollegiate and intramural. George Parkhurst '30 called on the boys from Hanover for ideas on the Musical Clubs entertainment we are planning for the Easter holidays and elicited some good suggestions.

Dartmouth's stock in Baltimore is definitely rising. A few years ago we would have six or eight boys in the College at one time; this year we have fifteen, only one of whom will be lost by graduation, so that next year's delegation promises to be considerably larger. At a recent "College Conference" for the public high schools some nineteen boys and several parents and relatives of other boys made serious inquiries of President McCarthy '26 about Dartmouth. As for actual applications for admission next fall, we know of sixteen already, several of them being brothers or school friends of undergraduates or recent graduates, clear sign of the natural and healthy growth of Dartmouth interest. Also our alumni list has grown to nearly seventy names.