1894*

This column acknowledges its indebtedness for items which from time to time come through the excellent Dartmouth News Service over which C. E. Widmayer '3O presides. From this source, word comes that Parker E. Sawyer, son of "Gust" Saw- yer, has gone as a volunteer in the United States Army. A farewell party was recently given him by his neighbors at Franklin, New Hampshire, headed by the Mayor. "Skid" Pearson '93, who writes about the party, pays a deserved tribute to "Gust," speaking of his "quiet smile and genuine, unassumed kindliness."

"Skid" in his "Granite Chips" which he writes for the Concord Monitor and Pa-triot (probably also for a good number of other New Hampshire papers) also refers to the resumption by Phil Marden of his place on the editorial staff of this MAGA- ZINE. We had intended to refer to this event but, lest anything that we might say be discounted on acount of nearly 50 years' friendship, let us quote "Skid":

"Phil Marden is a graceful and vigorous writer, a clear thinker, a man of wide ex- perience. It is good that he is to serve his fellow Dartmouth Alumni once more fig- uratively, as his distinguished father often did literally and vocally, as a spokesman."

While we are quoting from '93 let us note certain flashes of wisdom that have recently been struck off by men of '94:

P. R. Jenks: "Retired, very busy." (See feature section.—Ed.)

William Gibbon: "The war is making big business much bigger, and ruining small business. Our hotel has not carried itself for eighteen months. The world is changing so fast we cannot possibly keep up with it. Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."

E. O. Grover: "I have already begun to save my pennies to pay my bus fair to our 50th Reunion in 1944."

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