Dartmouth in New York

WE ARE FREQUENTLY asked questions about the Dartmouth CollegeClub of New York and the DartmouthAlumni Association of Neiv York. The following, which is published in a bookletprepared by Richard B. Kershaw '23, tellsthe story. Feeling it to be of general interest, we are printing it in full with the permission of the Dartmouth Club.—ED.)

ABOVE AND BEYOND THE FACILITIES and the fellowship which your Club offers you, stands its great measure of usefulness to the College. As an alumnus whose first interest lies in the furtherance of the Dartmouth idea, you will be gratified by the number and scope of the functions performed by the Club for the benefit of, and without cost to Dartmouth.

Publicity, organization and management of the Annual Alumni Dinner are handled entirely by the Club, which assumes all financial responsibility.

Here, in the snug comfort of the private dining room, are held meetings of the Alumni Council, the Alumni Fund Committee, and the Committee on Admissions. To the Council and the Fund Committee the Club gives the satisfaction of an all- Dartmouth meeting place in New York. To the Committee on Admissions the Club furnishes attractive quarters where prospective Dartmouth Phi Betes (and football men) are interviewed in suitable surroundings.

The Club is safe harbor and second home to undergraduates on vacation and to "old boys" in New York for a night or a year—a bit of warm Dartmouth ground in the heart of the city.

Much of the strength of Dartmouth lies in her alumni organizations. Without the Club, there would be no integrated, effective Alumni Association of New York. For here, the names and addresses of the four thousand Dartmouth men in the metropolitan area are kept on file for the mailings which the Club staff sends out.

Your Club, the focal point of Dartmouth in New York, is in effect a branch office of the College. Hundreds of telephone inquiries are answered here—from those interested in the Eye Clinic; from mothers of Carnival and Prom "dates"; from men seeking information from the General Catalogue about old friends and classmates.

Here, too, Dartmouth shows her continuing concern for all her "grand old seniors," in a carefully planned, earnestly conducted placement service. Winthrop A. Griffin 'OB, Vice President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, spends Tuesday evenings here each week with Dartmouth men who prefer business associations with men of their own College.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE CLUB

The ideal location is still being sought by every Club in New York. It's difficult to set your club down close enough to one place without being too far away from another.

In the former Murray Hill home of J. Pierpont Morgan, about midway between Grand Central and Pennsylvania stations, and flanked by the Union League and National Democratic Clubs, stands Hanover on-37th Street. Conveniently close to business and theatre districts, the Club still is in a quiet residential neighborhood.

There is restfulness and comfort in the air as you enter the door. There is frequently a bit of unexpected charm, too, as the lounge floor is always at the command of Dartmouth ladies, many of whom use the Club quite as much as their husbands do. Their vanity is touched by the feminine appointments of the powder room; they even wait patiently in the coziness of the cocktail lounge; they lunch on shopping days in the dining room overlooking the Morgan gardens; they entertain at bridge in the card room or in the private dining room. Several members have remarked that their wives can entertain more economically at the Club than at home.

What's this in the Library—a copy of your own Aegis and your own Freshman Green Book. Mine, too, and everybody else's, back to the days when you had to sport a flowing mustache to make the team. Here's the General Catalogue, and we'll look up Hector Arbuthnot's class and business address right now. On the table, the Daily Dartmouth has strange new names in the columns that used to mention us once in a while, and there are all the latest editions and newest magazines. Reading lights are properly placed and chairs are so comfortable that it's a temptation to sit right here and wait for next week's installment of that serial in the Post.

When you've had your fill of reading, the card room upstairs has a table waiting for a friendly game of bridge, cribbage, checkers or chess (and the bar will send up your order promptly).

Now let's wander down to the bar, where we can dot an i or cross a t with more emphasis than elegance. This is our own private, special province where we can sit, feet on rail and glass in hand, or stand round the piano for a rousing song that dates back to the "hums" of another and a fairer June. Here, too, is the strictly stag dining room where we may eat alone or share a table with "certified" company. The decorations are a fitting complement to Pierre's culinary accomplishments, which in themselves are ample justification for your membership.

The chances are that you will be able to spend a night or a week or a month in your own restful room in the Club. But, if all the eighteen bedrooms are occupied, the desk will arrange for equally attractive accommodations around the corner at 70 Park Avenue. The Club's favorable arrangement with this pleasant hotel is also a real convenience when your wife or mother or sister wants to spend a night in New York. Room rates at 70 Park Avenue are reduced to Club members when reservations are made through the Club desk.

One of the boys recently noticed two stray telephones in the office, away from the switchboard. Being curious, he found out that they are direct wires to two theatre ticket agencies. They're humming most of the time, as this service gets "front row, centre" at the best shows, at no more than regular agency prices.

The desk will get your tickets to all Dartmouth games, and give any information you may want on College affairs and College personnel. More than this, the desk every day performs smoothly and unobtrusively all the small personal services that set your Club apart from the impersonal and frequently disinterested atmosphere of the public bar or hotel.

Here is the place to gather with your kind for Dartmouth Night, Class Dinners, Friday evening Smokers during football season, and broadcasts or direct-wire reports from the field on Saturday afternoons.

In the "helpful hints department," there's a suggestion for you and your wife from several New Jersey, Long Island and Westchester couples who use the Club regularly. The men meet at the Club, their wives join them, and after a pleasant dinner and evening in the private dining room, there's a "short haul" home for each couple instead of a long, weary trek for three or four. Among the members and wives using the Club in this way is one especially enthusiastic group of classmates —a Staten Island manufacturer, a Long Island lawyer, a Westchester business man and a New Jersey judge.

Members driving to the Club for dinner usually find ample parking space not more than a few steps away from the door.

For the brethren of the clear eye, the stout arm and the agile leg, there are tennis and squash courts, and an ice skating rink available just around the corner.

But before we go round the corner, let's take stock of what the Dartmouth Club offers you, in return for what is probably the most moderate dues schedule of any club —of any kind—in New York. We'll repeat ourselves, but it's worth it, to have a concise list of services. The Club offers—

Overnight or permanent residence in comfortable, quiet bedrooms.

Dartmouth Class books and current periodicals in a restful library.

Cards, chess and other sedentary sports in a cheerful card room.

Luncheons from fifty cents, dinners from eighty-five cents, in all dining rooms. Something merely wet or actually stimulating, in the bar where you may look upon Old Dartmouth Row while you're drinking.

Class Dinners and Football Smokers, all over the place. A cocktail lounge, main lounge, main and private dining rooms open to you and your family and friends for formal and informal luncheons, bridge and dinner

parties. Football tickets; theatre tickets; College, class and alumni information, and any personal service you can think of, at the desk.

The privilege of signing checks for all services, on your house accounts. (No tipping permitted, of course.)

With no trouble at all, you will think of things such as swimming pools, and golf courses, that the Dartmouth Club doesn't offer. And there are clubs that are more imposing (and less congenial); better furnished (and less comfortable).

When you think of these things, you might think of another more striking difference, reflected in the

SCHEDULE OF DUES

Effective Sept. Ist, 1941

AnnualClassification Qualification Dues Resident Class A 21 years or over $25.00 B 11 years-20 years 20.00 C 6 years-10 years 15.00 D 3 years-5 years 10.00 E 2 years 5.00 F 1 year 0.00 Suburban 15.00 Non-Resident 10.00 Dartmouth Fathers 25.00

DEFINITION OF CLASSIFICATIONResident—Live or work in City of New York, including its five boroughs. Suburban—Live and work outside of New York City and within a radius of 50 miles from Club.

Non-Resident—Live and work outside of a radius of 50 miles from Club. Dartmouth Fathers—Fathers of sons who have attended or are attending Dartmouth College.

If you can use any of the facilities of the Dartmouth Club, there are many reasons why you will want to join now—reasons of convenience, comfort and fellowship.

But if you feel you cannot use the Club in any way, now or later, we ask you to join now, and in joining help us to maintain Hanover-on-37th-Street for the furtherance of the Dartmouth spirit arid for the expansion of the Club's usefulness to the College.