1914*

Just a few days after you read these lines we shall be meeting together on Hanover Plain. There is little need to philosophize on the years that have passed since that other spring morning when we received our diplomas and started out to face the wide, wide world. It has indeed been an epoch that we have lived through.

Now for a few days we can try to forget these hectic years and look forward to living over again the finest four years of our lives, and particularly the climax when we left Hanover for better or for worse.

It looks now as though we shall have well over one hundred men back to Reunion. You will have received the official announcement from the College, and please note that room reservations are to be made to the office of the bursar. The fee for a dormitory room is four dollars for Commencement week-end. Men wishing to room together can still send in their applications with the request for adjoining rooms.

If you have need of automobile transportation please notify the Secretary, who will try to arrange it. Don't forget to consult your local ticket agent for possible reduced fares.

So .... we shall look forward to seeing you at "Flag Raising" just before sundown on Friday, June 16. Richardson and Wheeler are the dormitories, and if you have been undecided up to this point, give it another thought and remember the old song: "Be good fellows while you may." In anticipation of Reunion the class officers voted last Commencement to send the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to all members of the class. Our latest news from Jack Conners indicates that approximately one hundred and ninety men will have paid their dues. This is indeed encouraging to learn that so many of the men are still interested in college and class activities. Thirty more subscriptions are needed to make this experiment self-balancing; so if you have enjoyed reading the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE—which by American Alumni Council award has for several years been rated among the best college magazineswon't you please send your check for $3.00 to include class dues and the subscription to Jack Conners, c/o The Stanley Works, Bridgeport, Conn.?

We sincerely hope that thirty men will make their contributions in this way.

Did you ever stop and think how cheaply our class went through college? Remember the tuition—$12s:00, now $400.00? Maybe you will consider the comparison far-fetched, but it seems to the writer that a contribution to the Alumni Fund on the part of our generation is certainly in order to repay the low cost of our particular years at Hanover. With the background of our splendid record on Alumni Fund contributions there is nothing more to say beyond backing up the splendid efforts of John Burleigh and his assistant agents and get your Alumni Fund subscriptions off early this year.

You are going to do it, of course. It has become a habit.... not only a habit but a part of our "Design for Living." We read recently that the essential difference between the two groups operating in the world today are those living under voluntary cooperation and those living under compulsory cooperation. The Dartmouth Alumni Fund certainly is an example of democracy at its best, under which a democratic institution is perpetuated certainly in part by the voluntary cooperation and contributions of the members of its group.

So, send your check to John Burleigh . ... and SEND IT SOON.

In a note from George Gilbert we are sorry to learn that he has been ill for two months and won't be able to join us at Reunion. We wish you a speedy recovery, George.

Address Changes: Louis I. Corliss, 44 Court St., Keene, N. H.; Wesley Engelhorn, 465 West 23d St., New York, N. Y.; Frederick H. Weed, Federal Power Commission, 1757 K St., N. W„ Washington, D. C.

Deak Wescott, who manages the Vineta Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., in the winter, and the Malvern at Bar Harbor, Me., in the summer, hopes to get away for a few days and come to Reunion. He reports the great pleasure that the Dartmouth group had in having Doctor Hopkins at Palm Beach this past winter, and looks forward to seeing everyone at Reunion.

Deak has arranged with Frank Dodge '11, proprietor of the Mountain View House, for a special rate for a post-Reunion in the event of an interested group wishing to be together for some days after the festivities at Hanover. The Mountain View House is, of course, the peer of mountain hotels. If any are interested in this, the Secretary will be glad to complete arrangements.

Also, your attention is called to Hanover Holiday, an announcement of which has been sent you. The Secretary will appreciate knowing likewise any who plan to attend.

In this, the last batch of class notes of this five-year period, I want to thank you all for your help and cooperation in keeping class activities going along these past five years. Your letters and suggestions have been most helpful, and I want to take this method of thanking you.

The class officers and committees have tried hard to prepare for a fine Reunion. The Twenty-Fifth, of course, is the climax, and once again you had better think it over carefully and plan to come. Send your check to Jack Conners, c/o The Stanley Works, Bridgeport, Conn., and don't forget to give your suit-coat size and the under arm sleeve length.

See you soon on Hanover Plain.

Secretary, 367 Boylston St., Boston

* 100% subscribers to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, on class group plan.