1910*
FLEDGELINGS . . . . 1910's list of SOnS tO attend Dartmouth is so long and so complete and so far ahead of any other class in the entire college history that we hesitate to say much about it ... . yet we or any other class can be pardoned for taking a justifiable pride in a record that is unlikely to be approached for many years to come.
Just what started it, we never knew .... Tenners are no more loyal to the College than countless other groups although that angle can amply stand on its own base.
.... Individual virility in producing male offspring may have been a factor, and still is in cases like those of Johnnie Hobbs and Winsor Wilkinson who will have sons at Hanover when we all are in the 70's, and we hope to Hek that those lads are not fleeting halfbacks for most of us might pass out of the picture in apoplectic applause.
But be that as it may, 96 Sons of 1910 have become Dartmouth men in their own rights .... and we just have an idea that they matriculated at Hanover because they wanted to .... of course, bred and raised in strong Dartmouth families had its influence.... and they knew from babyhood that 1910 was an unusually homogeneous outfit from the early days when "The Great Tobe" marshalled us across the Plains of Hanover.
These 10 Fledgelings to enter the Class of 1945 which will graduate exactly 35 years after our own graduation are:
KNOX ARMSTRONG, Waban, Mass., whose pappy, the inimitable "Bunny," first saw the light of day in Winchester, Mass., July 21, 1887.
WILLIAM c. BATES, Tulsa, Oklahoma, son of the New Hampshire Yank John Wesley Bates, who some time after birth in Somersworth, Jan. 18, went to Okla. and showed the Indians how to make money.
FLETCHER P. BURTON JR., Providence, R. 1., whose Brookline, Mass., born father (June 30, 1888) fills and guards 1910's Money Bags, and in spare moments acts as Rhode Island's Fuel Administrator.
JOHN H. FIELD in, Brookline, Mass., son of one of the finest fellows who eVer lived, our own Jack, a Nashua product, who met a sudden and untimely death from septic sore throat, Sept. 15, 1929.
DAVID L. KENDALL, Boone, lowa, a Vermont Yankee by heredity because his father, the lovable "Mac" chose to be born in Pompanoosuc, Nov. 26, 1888.
FRED s. PERRY, Buenos Aires, Argentina, half Yank, half Argentinan, whose Slightof-Hand dad (b. Webster, Mass., Feb. 12, 1887) went to Buenos Aires years ago, married a lovely Spanish senorita away from the local boys.
HERBERT J. SANDBERG, Brookline, Mass. son of a very smart Boston-born father who came to his parents as a Christmas present, Dec. 24, 1887, and later followed John Barrett all over So. America in Pan American activities.
THAYER A. SMITH JR., Short Hills, N. J., oldest child in an abundant family and scion of the Hanover Smiths because his progenitor elected The Plain as his birthplace, Nov. 14, 1889.
JOHN N. WASHBURN, Hanover, N. H., off spring of another Vt. Yankee (b. Putney on a cold, snowy day, Jan. 22, '89) who gave up potato raising to become an old, able and fluent French linguist on the Dartmouth faculty.
LORING B. WOOD, Worcester, Mass., whose Worcester-born father came up from Mass. shortly after birth Aug. 9, 1887, to room with "Father" Nelson in No. 9 New Hubbard, a mushroom creation that was presided over by "Gig" Gallagher and Ralph Glaze, and inhabited by some 35 real verdant Freshmen including A1 Barker and Mart Hannon, as the rest of us well knew.
PRESIDENT HOPKINS We happen to be one of those individuals who are delighted to see Dartmouth's President back on the job at Hanover .... in our humble opinion "Hop" is in his prime and can make very sizeable contributions to the College during the next ten years or so ... .
Dartmouth needs him full-time .... then, too, he'll undoubtedly live considerably longer in Hanover with 99 9/10% backing of his constituents than in Washington where if anyone backed anybody even 11%, both Backer and Backee would probably drop dead.
Let's not get the impression that a Dartmouth President's life is any sinecure .... far from it... . the pressure on "Hop" in Hanover is terrific .... people want him for everything.... they phone, they call, they write .... he burns up more nervous energy than many f01k5.... his replies to real letters are beautiful creations to possess .... because he is a swell fellow, he takes everything in stride and does a fine job .... however, a man with his responsibilities needs time to think and plan .... when he does both, we do not know ....
anyway, he's back in Hanover and we hope that he can stay there.
JOINT EVENING .... by the time you receive this the first joint dinner with 1911 will have been held started by Eleven's All-America secretary, Nat Burleigh, and your scribe, and handled in detail by those two able men-about-town, Chet Butts and Else Jenness, this affair the night-before-the Harvard-Game at the University Club promises to be a nice occasion, the outgrowth of "The Bull Pen" that comes with years .... 1911 and 1910 have a lot in common, and we're all for trying this out as an experiment.... will give you the details next issue.
MELANGE .... Micky Holmes was in Hanover for the Norwich game to see Bob's son, Steve, start his first game on the Dartmouth Varsity The Sheldon Smiths took a belated vacation in September, belated because of "Smitty's" pressing law practice Ernest Cushman's address is 5951 Estelle St., San Diego, Calif Babe Steward operates Ready-Mix Concrete & Supply Co. at Lafayette, Louisiana The Gay Gleasons took young 8 yr. old Teddie to the Norwich Game for his first Dartmouth Baptism, staying at Dave Austin's Canaan Street Lodge Bill Moe who does considerable lecturing in geology and astronomy, presented 50 mineral and geological specimens to Dartmouth College Museum where they are on exhibition.
SID BULL JR., Dartmouth Cross Country Captain, won one of the two highly prized Morrill Gallagher Scholarships of $600 each which are awarded to undergraduates with Rhodes Scholar qualifications.... young Sid has done a nice job at Hanover .... the other Gallagher Scholarship was awarded to Football Captain Pearson.
CLASS DUES. .. .whatever you fellows can do to help Fletch Burton with his dues will be appreciated by everyone for he is very busy with his Fuel Administration duties, and needs cooperation from everyone.
"IT WAS FEBRUARY, 1910 in Hanover, N. H. and a tall, big-framed youth named Ben Ames Williams had just been notified that he had satisfactorily completed his course at Dartmouth College in three and one-half years," thus started a special newspaper article we ran across not long ago ... .so much has been written and spoken about Ben and his life's work that part is always repetition but this was so generally interesting that we are turning it over to the College archives for perpetuity. Ben's new book The Strange Woman is out. .. . published by Houghton, Mifflin Co. Containing 684 pages, it has had some interesting reviews. .. .we have labeled it for interesting reading as many of you other fellows will be doing. .. .for Ben's writings and activities are always followed eagerly by his classmates and Dartmouth men as a group.
YOU or WE or ANYONE ELSE cannot run a Class column in Dartmouth's ever-growing ALUMNI MAGAZINE on "wind and water". .. .in the first place, if you ever tried it, you'd soon be ground into pulp in the mad pace set by the hard-laboring secretaries .... and in the second place, your own Class would shrink into insignificance in the Dartmouth picture... .strong classes make a strong alumni body, and strong alumni make a strong Dartmouth.
Last year, for example, we were allocated 15,000 words in the nine regular issues of the MAGAZINE. .. .we used 14,262. .. .with 81 set by the MAGAZINE Fathers as a perfect score for class secretaries to be measured by, and 90 as the absolute tops for any class to attain in promptness, 1910 reached 89.
You fellows did it in supplying your secretary with news. .. .you can do it again if you unlimber mighty doggone soon.
Secretary, Canaan Street Canaan, N. H. Treasurer, 1 Weybosset St., Providence, R. I
