Next June

IT WOULD NOT SEEM POSSIBLE tO go back to the old plan of holding Commencement and all class reunions on the same week-end, with the over-crowding, standing in line, discomforts, and tangle of traffic and interests that left much to be desired among seniors, parents, alumni and their families. With the 5, 10, 15, and 20 year classes not in town it was amazing to note how full the village was even so. The throng of senior guests and alumni seemed to fill all the spaces. Sell outs, for the first time in years, were the record of The Players and the Musical Clubs at their Commencement performances.

Hanover Holiday had the largest enrollment of its brief but cumulatively more successful history. The new plan seemed more convenient for attendance of members of reunion classes at the week's program of faculty talks and vacationing. In view of the approval with which the reunion plan was received by the four classes which tried it this year the same system will probably be followed next June, subject to endorsement of the Alumni Council at its meeting in New York next month.

One begins to get the idea that Dartmouth is a big college when Hanover is filled with alumni and friends on two successive June week-ends. Revisions of custom, in which Dartmouth men have the courage and willingness to pioneer, can solve problems of limited facilities in Hanover, and without hurting, but strengthening, the traditions associated with class reunions.