Philadelphia

THIS MONTH we are once again brought face to face with the fact that the prep schools have another crop of boys with their minds and hearts all set on entering Dartmouth. The crop from this territory is bigger than ever and many evenings are being spent by some 20 alumni in interviewing the boys in their homes.

On December 29 all of these prospectives and their fathers, undergraduates, and alumni, 140 all told, gathered at the University Club for our annual holiday smoker, which was featured this year by talks by Lou Young Sr., Lou Young Jr. '41, and Rodger Harrison '39. Lou Jr. expounded on the football problems of the 1938 season, while Rodger, as a representative of Palaeopitus and President of the Interfraternity Council, brought us up to date on undergraduate intramural problems. After the speaking, Bob Hall Yale '30, a quarterback of national acclaim, showed movies of our Cornell and Harvard games, topped off by his own colored movies of the Pitt-Temple game. Colby Howe '39 had planned to be with us, but we excused him that he might play in the North-South game where as expected he acquitted himself with deserved glory.

Now all thoughts are turned to the Penn basketball game and the Princeton hockey match. Apparently we're all perennial undergraduates.