Dartmouth Night

AT THE Dartmouth Night celebration in Webster Hall on March 9, Basil O'Connor '12 of New York City will deliver the principal address of the evening. Dean Emeritus Craven Laycock '96 will act as master of ceremonies, and James M. Mathes Jr. '39, president of Palaeopitus, will make the opening remarks on behalf of the student governing group, which annually sponsors Dartmouth Night. The Band and both the varsity and freshman glee clubs will participate in the Hanover program.

Part of the Webster Hall celebration will be broadcast by direct wire to the Dartmouth Club of New York City. Alumni gathered there to hear Coach Osborne B. Cowles and Lloyd U. Noland Jr. '39 will receive the Hanover program from 8:30 to 9:00 o'clock.

College officials and undergraduates will take part in other Dartmouth Night celebrations at various alumni centers. Dean Lloyd K. Neidlinger '23 and Coach Earl Blaik will be the guests of honor at the Chicago gathering; Dean E. Gordon Bill will speak at Rochester, N. Y.; Prof. John M. Mecklin will be the principal speaker at the Boston celebration at the University Club; Director of Athletics William H. McCarter '19 will attend the Philadelphia meeting; at Newark, N. J., the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Northern New Jersey will hear Trustee William J. Minsch '07, Prof. Allen R. Foley '20, and Robert F. MacLeod '39, captain of the 1938 football eleven; at Pittsfield, Mass., Charles E. Widmayer '30, News Service director, and Robert W. Gibson '39 will speak at the meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Berkshire County; and Davis Jackson '36, College adviser to fraternities, will be guest of honor at the Dartmouth Night gathering in New Haven.

Dean Bill's Rochester appearance will be part of an alumni trip that will also take him to Albany on March 7 and to Buffalo on March 10. Dean Neidlinger will like- wise be away from Hanover on an alumni speaking tour, visiting Milwaukee on March 8, Minneapolis on March 9, and St. Louis on March 13. From Philadelphia Mr. McCarter will go to Pittsburgh for an alumni dinner on March 10.

Professor Foley and Robert W. Gibson '39 will be guests of honor at a meeting of the Dartmouth Club in Wellesley, Mass., on March 1; and Prof. Malcolm Keir of the Economics department will speak at the Dartmouth Club in New York City on March 16.

During the past month Sidney C.' Hayward '26, secretary of the College, visited four alumni centers, speaking at Cleveland on February 23, Detroit on the 24th, Cincinnati on the 27th, and Louisville on the 28th. Harry O. Ellinger, line coach of the varsity football team, spoke to the Dartmouth Club of Worcester, Mass., on February 23, and on February 16 guests of honor at the alumni dinner in Syracuse, N. Y., were President William H. Cowley '24 of Hamilton College and President William A. Eddy of Hobart College.