Boston

AT THIS POINT we're only a week away . from the Annual Dinner of the Boston Alumni. President Karl Compton of Tech will be on hand with President Hopkins to give the meeting some of their experience with talks after the feasting.

Professors McCallum and Hill spoke to a large group of Boston alumni at the University Club a few weeks ago and the evening lived up to its great promise. After a fine supper, Prof. Hill commented on what has been done with the Hanover Holiday idea. He gave details of the forthcoming 1940 edition of this splendid alumni function and accompanied his talk with movies of the various diversions that enter into a well-planned alumni vacation and reunion at Hanover.

Professor McCallum, taking his cue from Pres. Walter Powers' able introduction, launched into a not-too-serious version of what Eleazar Wheelock would think of contemporary Dartmouth. The Professor's quotations of lengthy passages from some of Wheelock's correspondence were rather amazing and' certainly very amusing. Underneath this humor, several rather serious comparisons of past and present undergraduate life and opportunity were drawn. It was an evening profitably and enjoyably spent, and the fact that Chairman Powers had to rescue Prof. McCallum from the gathering after an extended question period testifies to everyone's genuine enjoyment of another faculty speaker program.

A year ago, a Hovey Hum marked one of the most enjoyable and unusual alumni get-togethers that Boston has had in recent times. An informal gathering at the University Club with an evening of good fellowship among Dartmouth friends, the underlying object of the gathering seems to have a place in Association activities. The Association officers want expressions of opinion on what can be done along similar lines this spring. Suggestions to Pres. Walter Powers and any of the rest of the Association officers will certainly be welcome.