Dartmouth Night
ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL Dartmouth Night celebrations in recent years was held in Webster Hall on Thursday night, November 14. A student-faculty audience which filled the hall sang all the popular Dartmouth songs, rocked the building with cheers, and listened goodhumoredly to the quips and serious words of President Hopkins, President Edmund E. Day '05 of Cornell University, Prof. Allen R. Foley '20, and Peter M. Keir '41, president of Palaeopitus. The Band and the Glee Club were also on hand to contribute to the sprightly atmosphere.
After Peter Keir had invited the audience to relax and have a good time, Professor Foley, who acted as master of ceremonies, delivered the "keynote address." Continuing what he called his series of alphabetical talks, he skipped over "C" to the accompaniment of great cheering and arrived at the appropriate "D" address, which he delivered feelingly on "Dartmouth D evotion and Destiny."
President Day's talk dealt with undergraduate reminiscences, his continuing affection for Hanover, and the job of being a college president, but his main topic was a plea for the preservation of fine relations between the men of Cornell and Dartmouth whom he characterized as "tWo great companies of men of intelligence and good will." Mr. Day deprecated the intercollegiate sniping always directed at an institution with an outstanding football team, and stated that although he was philosophical about it, he worried about it as a phase of the growing national psy. chosis of suspecting and belittling anyone successful enough to rise above the common level, in business or in any other field. Mr. Day drew a good-natured cheer from the audience when he stated that the graduation of 18 varsity players would make Cornell "as pure as the driven snow" next season.
President Hopkins, introduced by Professor Foley as "an angel of light," consoled President Day out of his long experience with football cycles and spoke for all Dartmouth men in expressing respect and admiration for Cornell and in seconding the desire for continued friendly relations between the two institutions. To his undergraduate audience President Hopkins declared that Dartmouth College is more a spiritual experience than a group of buildings, a faculty, a student body or an administration, and urged his listeners to avail themselves of the priceless values which are theirs for the taking.
President Hopkins also read the telepic greetings from Dartmouth alumni groups throughout the country, calling special attention to expressions of loyalty from four Dartmouth men with the second defense battalion of Marines at San Diego and from another group of seven naval reserve officers docked at New York.
Telegraphic greetings were received from the Dartmouth clubs of Honolulu, Bridgeport (Conn.), Oklahoma, Southern California, Northern California and Nevada, Virginia, Washington, D. C., Northwest (Minnesota), Cleveland, Manchester (N. H.), Detroit, Berkshire County (Mass.), Central Ohio (Columbus), North Shore (Mass.), Naugatuck Valley (Conn.), Philadelphia, Northeastern New York (Albany), Georgia, Central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg), New Britain (Conn.), Eastern Pennsylvania (Reading), Oregon, Baltimore, Chicago, Wisconsin, New Haven, Pacific Northwest (Tacoma), Great Divide (Denver), New York City, Southeastern Florida, Boston, Nashua (N. H.), Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), Central New York (Syracuse), Wellesley (Mass.) and Western Conn. (Stamford).
DR. ARTHUR H. RUGGLES '02Of Providence, R. I., nominated by Alumni Council for second term of fiveyears as Alumni Trustee.
