1895

One year from next June the members of the class of 1895 will celebrate their 45th reunion, and as large an attendance as is possible is hoped for.

Forty-five years ago (in June) we had seventy-six members. The entire student body of the college at that time numbered 4175. The present freshman class numbers 676. The total registration of students is 2473, more than five times,as many as the total number when we were juniors.

There are now 46 graduate members of our class, 8 non-graduates, and 8 graduates of the medical class of '95, making 62 in all.

In our junior year there were 43 members of the faculty, counting Pres. Tucker, Ex-Pres. Bartlett and the non-resident members of the medical school.

Harking back to our freshman year, we all remember how we walloped '94 in the cane rush. This rush was considered rather shameful by the faculty. Many of us received a slip of paper upon which was written something like this: "By unanimous vote of the faculty you are hereby reprimanded for participating in a public disturbance on—such and such a night." This is the substance of the rebuke. It was signed by Pres. Bartlett. I think I preserved this scolding paper and have it somewhere up attic in the bottom of a trunk.

If any '95 man exists who has not been back to Hanover since graduating, he is advised to prepare for the shock of tremendous changes in appearance, not only of the buildings, the streets, the sidewalks, etc., but also of the faculty and students.

We used to speak of the "Kid Faculty," so young and verdant in mien. It is not always easy now to distinguish between student and faculty. Beards and dignity have largely disappeared. There is no distinctive gowning of faculty now, nor of students, except on Commencement days. There are no Prince Albert coats, no top hats now, and smoking? The only member of the faculty who smoked as I now remember it, was Clothespin Richardson, and perhaps Prof. Arthur Sherburne Hardy. Yes, and Bubby Bartlett. They smoked in doors and out of sight, as I recall. But the familiar tobacco odor was sometimes detected when having close communion with these worthy gentlemen. Smoking among students was not encouraged, but it was tolerated. But now who doesn't smoke among the faculty and the student body? Some do not, of course, but many thousands of cigarettes and cigars and many pounds of pipe tobacco are smoked at Dartmouth every day. And drinking? In our day, yes, some. Now, much. Too much! But is there much drinking now at the Chaucerean "well of English undefiled?" English is still taught in the colleges, or at least it is offered.

Who of our class is willing to send me reminiscent stories of Chuck Emerson, Prexy Bartlett, Prexy Tucker, Johnny Roe, Tute White, and the grasshopper, the organ-grinder and his monkey, etc.

There is a challenge. Let me have your yarns for the class column, preparatory for the 45th reunion.

"SUSIE SMITH "In all kinds of weather, Susie Smith and I Just go off together, Never minding whether Any one doth spy.

"Susie Smith's so pretty That, when she goes by, Fellows from the city, With their phrases witty, Call her mighty 'fly.'

" 'Susie Smith, I love you,' I observed one day, 'Sure as God's above you, I sincerely love youAnd I shall alway.'

" Just a bit she waited Ere she answered me— ' Charlie, I was fated, I think, to be mated Ever unto thee.'

"Men all have their pleasures They're delighted with; But instead of treasures Without bounds or measures, I have—Susie Smith!"

Who of our class wrote "Susie Smith?" Did he really marry her?

Fund Contributors for 1938

Contributors: 28 (60% of graduates). Total gifts: $534 (63% of objective). EDWARD J. ROSSITER, Class Agent.

1895

Austin, Frank E. Campbell, Arthur F. Cleaveland, Fred C. Crosby, Allyn J. Davis, Carroll A. Folsom, Percy N. Ford, Joseph A. Foster, William A. Gault, John Gile, Ernest S. Hack, Thomas H. Harley, Joel A. Holden, Charles A. Lane, Walter A.

Mclndoe, George J. Mason, Francis E. Newell, Harry W. Newhart, Horace Pollard, Charles W. Rice, William F. Rossiter, Edward J. Sanborn, Henry C. Shepard, Frederick D. Stevens, Roland E. Tarbell, Wallace H. Thompson, J. Walcott West, Arthur D. Wilson, Albion B.

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