Manchester

ALL STREETS AND HIGHWAYS within a thirtymile radius led to Manchester's Hotel Carpenter Friday evening, January 26. Hopkins-Blaik-Rolfe provided a magnetic triple attraction, the turn-out running close to 160. Delegations of about a dozen each came from Concord, Nashua and Milford. From the first Wah-Hoo-Wah until the final notes of The Dartmouth Song, the program was full of sustained interest under Dick Willis' resourceful and smoothly paced toastmastering.

His introduction of President Hopkms deserves a quote: "If a musician were introducing the world's greatest pianist, he would simply say 'Gentlemen, Paderewski!', so tonight I say to you, 'Gentlemen, Ernest Martin Hopkins!'."

During the hour-long delightfully informal discourse, the President's remarks ranged from the recent Earl Browder rumpus to Professor Bancroft Brown's examination problem in probabilities involving the science of loaded dice. An ideal curriculum, he stated, includes one difficult subject to develop mental stamina and one easy, interesting subject to cultivate imagination. He also went to bat for Earl Blaik, handling the answer to a question previously put to the football coach regarding the differences between Dartmouth and Cornell football.

Coach Blaik talked "within the family" about many phases of football in its team aspects, with many individual highlights. Aided by Assistant Coach Harry Ellinger, he presented movies of the Stanford and Cornell games, the latter in beautiful color, clear and dramatic.

Robert "Red" Rolfe '31, Yankee third baseman and one of the Concord delegation, spoke briefly and was given an enthusiastic reception. Walker Wiggin '30 did the cheer-leading and Dick Willis '22 doubled at the piano for the singing.

Oldest and youngest of those present were William J. Starr '84 and James A. Shanahan Jr., a prospective member of the class of 1947.

Unique was the contribution of Louis E. Wyman, Harvard 'OO, who has attended Dartmouth functions for many years. He bespoke the thoughts and feelings of those "friends of Dartmouth" who have become habitual in their attendance at this affair.

This gathering had a lot of lift-and-go. A more-than-usual amount of verve and warmth—Dartmouth fellowship—that indefinable something experienced and shared by all who have ever been close to the heart of the College. For the grateful Secretary, all this was made memorable by the thought fulness of his fellow-officers and committeemen in presenting to him a handsomely engraved silver plate. Work done, work to do.

MANCHESTER ALUMNI GATHERED JANUARY 26 WITH ROBERT P. BOOTH, PRESIDENT HOPKINS, RICHARD T. WILLIS AND COACH BLAIK AT HEAD TABLE