Letters

Arbitration Chairman

To THE EDITOR: You are exceedingly kind to be so complimentary to me in referring to such services as I was able to render in connection with the controversy over the undergraduate publications of Dartmouth. I refer, of course, to your leading article in the March number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

I hope the plan devised by the Arbitration Committee will work out in practice as well as it seems to work out in theory, and that I may be able to attend my forty-fifth reunion this June without finding that I have been hanged in effigy.

Hartford CourantHartford, Conn.

Unofficial Alumnus

To THE EDITOR: This is to tell you that you did a nice job on the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. There was af real whack in the cover. If anybody comes honking into the office and tells you| that| there was not enough detail in Chiver's face, tell.'em to go out and try to do a better job—l been there and I know.

Will you please send- a copy to| Corey Ford, c/o M G M Studios, Culver City, California. Corey is fast becoming an unofficial alumnus.

Carroll County IndependentCenter Ossipee, N. H.

Expensive & Expansive

To THE EDITOR: Another word in re MAGAZINE; prefaced by a story —if you have time to read it. The recent death of an old acquaintance in my home town recalls.,the fact that in his youth he enjoyed the unusual distinction of being the possessor of nine pairs of pants of different hues. To what extent this feature promoted his circulation among the fair sex I do not know; neither can I estimate the value in circulation of the nine pictorial vestments clothing the nine issues of the MAGAZINE. Altho' realizing the modern tendency to "Say it with pictures," instead of in print, it should not require with college men the lure of a picture to induce them to explore the interior. It is an item of cost at any rate.

Yours for the simple life, and a less expensive and less expansive Dartmouth College.

309 S. Brevard Ave.

Tampa, Fla.

Plea for Style

To THE EDITOR: Not less than 100 persons have, I suppose, already directed your attention to what appears to be the result of sloppy proofreading on p. if of February issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

I have been wondering how far you people at headquarters can properly go in editing notes sent in to you from class and alumni association correspondents. Sometimes grammar is bad, construction terrible, spelling off. I do wish, for example, that editors would force uniformity in noting whether Jimmy Jones graduated himself from Siwash or was graduated by Siwash.

It may be itoo much'to expect new generations of editors to catch a point such as this—the last paragraph of alumni club notes from Virginia in the February issue refers to Charley Rich '75 as one who before retiring was "a prominent architect." If Mr. Rich sees this note, he'll probably weep over the thought that one is soon forgotten. He was the Dartmouth College architect in the Tucker period.

I can't send this without also telling you what a fine magazine it is that you direct. When it arrives all other reading matter is laid aside.

212 Mill StreetNeatomille, Massachusetts

[Whether Mr. Jones graduated from or at Siwash, or was graduated by Siwash, is a moot point. Usage appears to permit either form. —ED.]

Golfers

To THE EDITOR: The above came into my office some time ago. I am sending it along to you on the off chance that you have not received a dozen similar shots—and that you might like to use it in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Incidentally, I think the magazine has improved a great deal in the past year.

Managing Editor of "Golf" Magazine

52 Vanderbilt Ave.New York City

Vocational Guidance

To THE EDITOR: In the next issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE it seems to me that it will be of a great deal of help if we emphasize the part that the alumnus can play in connection with jobs for younger alumni. I am now sending out a letter to all members of our committee, giving them more definite instructions as to just how they are to handle their work. For example, I have a letter from Ernest L. Kimball, Boston, in which he advises me that he had already received application for assistance from three Dartmouth graduates in the vicinity of Boston. On the same day, February 16th, I received a letter from Carl F. Schipper Jr., of Newtonville, Mass., telling me that he has just had a call from a recent graduate asking for help in locating a job. They and others in different parts of the country who have already received applications from Dartmouth men as a result of the recent article in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, want to know method of procedure.

I am writing to them telling them that the Vocational Guidance Bureau has not been established with the idea of supplying men to organizations but rather getting places for Dartmouth men who apply to the Vocational Guidance Bureau for help and counsel. I have suggested that they contact larger employers, such as Western Electric, General Electric, Bell Telephone Cos., Public Service and manufacturers and organizations of that sort, that they advise as to the service which they have to offer. I know from my own experience in Chicago that many of these large organizations will welcome an opportunity of getting men through the local Dartmouth Vocational Guidance Committees, for it will save them in most cases, a great deal of work as the Vocational Guidance Committeeman must make every effort to recommend men of the type wanted. The Vocational Guidance Committeeman can, in all instances, I am sure, secure very helpful cooperation from his local alumni group, many of whom are no doubt in a position to use young men from time to time.

2841 South Ashland AvenueChicago, 111.

La Riviere Dartmouth

To THE EDITOR:

I'm enclosing a picture of a lumber schooner which I took last summer at the mouth of the Dartmouth River where it empties into the Bay of Gaspe, P. Q., Canada. I had seen the name on the road map, and hoped that a river with such a name would be more than the ordinary type of brook. Sure enough it was sizable; not exactly a raging torrent but, nevertheless, a good fat, substantial stream. It may be that there are others who do not know of such a river, and it may be of interest.

1400 South Penn SquarePhiladelphia, Pa.

Song Authorship

To THE EDITOR:

I note that in the March issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE the writer of the obituary notice of Dr. W. B. Segur '92, Medical School, makes the same error that appeared in the New York Times obituary notice of Dr. Segur. The authorship of the Dartmouth song "As the Backs Go Tearing By" is in both places attributed to him.

This song, so far as I can ascertain, was according to one authority on Dartmouth songs a sort of composite song written on the spur of the moment on the return from a football game. John T. Keady 'O6, familiarly known as Tom Keady, /football player and coach, is given credit by this authority as the author. George W. Clark gives a slightly different version of this composition. In the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for April 1910 he says "that Keady was sitting on the fence watching practice when the words came to him." The air is "When the Boys Go Marching By" by the late Carlyle W. Blaisdell of Concord, New Hamp- shire. The first appearance in print of this song, as far as I can ascertain, was in THE DARTMOUTH for November 6, 1903, the first line reading "When the Backs Go Tearing By." Early printed versions of this song refer to Brunonia's and not to Harvard's cheers.

Dr. Segur was the author of the official College song known for many years as "The Dartmouth Song," the first line of which read "Come, Fellows, Let us Raise a Song." This was sung at all Dartmouth gatherings for over thirty years, until it was finally replaced by Hovey's "Men of Dartmouth." It was written by Segur, leader of the Glee Club in the fall of 1891. He also, with G. W. Cox '93, pianist for the glee club, wrote the music.

Baker LibraryHanover, N. H.

To THE EDITOR:

Obituary notices of the late Dr. Willard B. Segur (Med. '92) have quite commonly asserted that while he was a medical student at Hanover he wrote the song "As the Backs Go Tearing By." I am quite sure he did nothing of the sort and that the song, now so familiar, was written many years later. What Segur really did get credit for writing—l am not sure that he wrote also the words—was the song long used as the official "anthem" of the College, beginning "Come, fellows, let us raise a song." It was a good song, too, and held its place for many a year until Harry Wellman's still better music was wedded to the poetry of Richard Hovey, "Men of Dartmouth, give a rouse."

Segur was a Princeton graduate, but spent three years at the Dartmouth Medical School at a time when eligibility rules were liberal so that he was allowed to play on the college football team and to participate as a member of the Glee Club. My recollection is that he was a centre rush and as such coached my classmate, Matt Jones, in the art of playing that position.

Who did write "As the Backs Go Tearing By? I have heard various ascriptions—one of them to Tom Keady, 1906. That seems to me about the time this famous ditty first came into vogue. It certainly wasn't sung in my own time in college and I am quite certain Bill Segur had nothing to do with it.

Lowell Courier-CitizenLowell, Mass.

[Mr. Rugg's explanation of song authorship, above9gives the facts correctly. The error in crediting "As theBacks Go Tearing By" to Dr. Segur began with anA.P. dispatch on his death, but the error was caughtalmost immediately and later dispatches carried thecorrect information.—ED.]

Humphrey Murals

To THE EDITOR:

In the March issue I noted inquiry by James C. Chilcott '2O relative to reproduction of Walter Humphrey's paintings in color suitable for framing, also your note that the Publications Committee could only consider reproductions if there was sufficient interest to justify printing in colors of the several sections of the painting.

Please put me on the list of interested inquirers. 1 hope there are enough others similarly interested to justify eventual publication

Cooper & HallRochester, New Hampshire

Who Are They?

To THE EDITOR

The guy with the "bowler" resembles one George Ray Wicker, the economics professor. On the front seat beside "Dud," how about Babe Grant 'O3, now of the Trustees? Nat Batchelder is of course unmistakable. On the next seat, on right Fletcher Hale 'O5, on his right O. W. Smith 'O3, and behind him "Pip" Howard 'O3.

Are there other identifications of this historic view of Dud's old stage coach?

210 Pine St.Harrisburgy Pa.

Hovey Celebration

To THE EDITOR:

The proposed observance of the 75th anniversary on May 4 of the birth of Richard Hovey 'B5, Dartmouth's Laureate and great interpreter of the Dartmouth Spirit, is meeting with enthusiastic response from various alumni sources. Many suggestions relative to this memorialization are being received.

Coordination of these ideas reveals what appears to be a feasible and effective plan. In general it proposes widespread alumni association meetings on that date, the collective observance to be known as the "Hovey Hum." Informal singing of the Hovey songs, reading of poems such as "Barney McGee," supplemented by a brief biographical sketch of that famous son of Dartmouth would constitute the program for the most part. A special tribute from the Dartmouth men of the 'Bo's who knew Hovey in college is a possibility.

Perhaps, however, in the larger alumni centers, closer harmony and fellowship might be achieved through gatherings of class groups, or of contemporary classes.

At the end of the winter season when the vocal cords are sadly in need of a little workout, early May offers an exceptional opportunity. What could be more appropriate than that deathless melody of the "Stein Song"?

"Give a rouse then in the MaytimeFor the life that knows no fearTurn nighttime into daytime with the sunlight of goodcheerFor it's always fair weather when good fellows get togetherWith a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear." In this manner would Dartmouth men everywhere "set a watch" and uncover and perpetuate the Hovey legends, and live again in that happy land of which Hovey wrote:

"Far off, Ascutney smiles as one at peace .... on ... . the tranquil hills that took me as a boy and filled my spirit with the silences!"

Edwin Osgood Grover, '94, our most devoted student of Hoveyana, has said:

"Richard Hovey built up a little literature about Dartmouth such as no other college in America possesses."

Hovey was a pioneer of the outdoor life at Hanover, and no man ever left Hanover with a keener and more appreciative sense of the brooding message of the "still north," the "hill winds," "the granite of New Hampshire," or of the winter days when "the great white cold walks abroad." Hovey alone has said those- things we have felt and was able to bring them to expression in such enduring lyrics as found in "Men of Dartmouth," "Hanover Winter Song," "Eleazer Wheelock," "Comrades," "Spring," "Vagabondia," "Dartmouth Ode," "To Clothespins," "A Winter Thought," "Our Liege Lady," "The Spirit of Dartmouth," "The Old Pine" and "Day and Night" (to Cornell).

From a literary point of view, "Men of Dartmouth" is unquestionably the finest college song in existence. As Mr. Grover wrote: "Richard Hovey revealed us to ourselves."

So let us all—from coast to coast—on May 4—Give a rouse!

188 Central St.Somerville, Mass.

Chairman of Boston AlumniCommittee for commemoration of the Hovey Anniversary May

Richard, Hovey

To THE EDITOR:

In connection with the observance of the 75th anniversary of the birth of Richard Hovey 'B5 on May 4, I suggest that a "March (toward Hanover) of Dimes," gathered at "Hovey Hums" held by alumni clubs and associations throughout the country would build a modest record of his fame. A collection of this nature should provide enough funds to put up a bronze tablet made from the granite of New Hampshire and placed perhaps near Reed Hall where Hovey roomed as a student.

Boston, Mass.

PRESIDENT AND MRS. HOPKINS Shown earlier in the winter golfing atPinehurst, N. C. They later went to Floridato spend the President's leave of absence.

NAMESAKE RIVER IN PROVINCE OF QUEBEC

IN THE GAY DAYS OF DUD'S POPULAR STAGE COACH