1895*

Something strangely new is happening at Dartmouth. One thousand men are being trained there for induction into the Navy, a reserve naval officer's corps, so to speak. It is my understanding that these men (specialist volunteers of mature age) when the course is finished will become active officers, ranking from Ensign to Second Lieutenant. They are being instructed by naval officers, graduates of Annapolis. I also understand that they are being indoctrinated not only in naval science, but in the fine traditions of our Navy.

To see them march in uniform by divisions to and from classes and College Hall dining room is impressive. It makes one's American blood take on a deeper tinge of red, and surge a bit faster in and around the circulatory system. It rejuvenates one in the upper register of age and arouses grateful admiration for these fine, seriousminded men who are stepping out from home and civil occupation to interpose their brawn and brain between a constitutionally free way of life and threatened straight-jacket slavery. When the present thousand men have finished their training at Dartmouth, another and yet another thousand will replace them, until our Navy is replete with officer personnel.

At an outdoor concert, in front of Webster Hall, Sunday (Aug. 2) Lieut. Hall, of the Naval Faculty, was the star. He was in uniform, of course. He has a well-trained voice of unusual range. His rendering of "The Lord's Prayer," as a musical solo, and "Sylvia" was deeply appreciated. So, on behalf of the ripe members of '95, I say "here's to Lieut. Hall and the men of the Dartmouth Naval Academy, pro tempore."

Many '95 men remember Prof. A. C. Crehore, under whose instruction we sat in the physics laboratory in our green years. Not long ago he published a small book entitled "Atomic Theory" which Frank Austin reviewed. I am the grateful possessor of an autographed copy of the book. Austin writes that it is devoid of mathematics and gives the most concise and understandable explanation of up-to-date atomic arrangement neutrons and electrons he has ever seen. The author's address is: Albert C. Crehore, Ph.D., 8510 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio.

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.