ICE HOCKEY

by Eddie Jeremiah '30, A. S.Barnes & Co., 1942,124 pp., $1.

THERE IS A CERTAIN spice and flavor to Eddie Jeremiah's conversation that might or might not carry over into his writing. That it is our Eddie talking in the pages of. IceHockey is a happy situation to report, rather than making the admission that this is a'dry, technical, or in any way unreadable account of a great sport. Eddie finds himself in the midst of a discussion of fundamentals of hockey, its conditioning, offense, playmaking, or defense, and his light shines out from under the bushel (well-filled with his lore and complete understanding of the game). He speculates as to whether it is better to have a player with "million dollar legs and ten cent brain" or vice versa (which is his choice), but concludes that the best combination is the player with the "million dollar legs and million dollar brain".

This coincides somewhat with Eddie Jeremiah's modest ambition expressed to a group of friends in Hanover that he would be perfectly satisfied at Dartmouth if he could hold both the jobs of Director of Admissions and Coach of Hockey.

Anyway, it is nice to have this volume in the Barnes Dollar Sports Library reveal shafts of the Jeremiah style, and even better to have it contain so much information about his style of hockey. It is not, strictly speaking, a discussion of hockey from the spectators' point of view although such a reader will learn a lot that he never knew or dreamed of. But that statement should be qualified to read that it is a book for the real hockey fan who can spot a clever drop pass the length of the ice and who senses the lightning development of a scoring play before the puck hits the net. For these fans (and the only cure for the virulent hockey bug is another game) the book is tops.

It is easy to imagine a boy in his early 'teens absorbed in studying the chapter on "Individual Tricks" which Jerry feels is an angle of hockey that young players must work at, together with the fundamentals of skating, stick-handling, shooting, and body checking. Wes Goding '39 contributes a chapter on goal tending. The book is well illustrated with pictures and many diagrams that will especially help players.

Eddie Jeremiah dedicates his fine book to the memory of George V. Brown, for many years manager of the Boston Arena and a good friend to Dartmouth hockey teams, and to Dean Craven Laycock '96.

Wood Lawn, the Story of the NeilsonHome, Alumnae House, New Jersey Collegefor Women, told in a group of descriptive sketches by William Parker Hudson '29 at al, has been very attractively printed in a volume of 30 pages, by the Associate Alumnae of New Jersey College for Women, Rutgers University. Wood Lawn, now owned by the Associate Alumnae, was built in 1830, and after the death of James Neilson in 1937 became the property of Rutgers University. Professor Hudson of the Art Department has written a section entitled Wood Lawn Interiors, and has also made some very charming drawings for this volume which will be of interest to all connected in any way with Rutgers University.

There has been published by The Dartmouth Printing Company in an edition of 100 copies, a volume entitled Days at Dartmouth A Memorial to Americo Secondo DeMasi. This volume of 107 pages consists of letters written by De Masi, one of the students who lost his life in the Theta Chi tragedy at Dartmouth February 25, 1934. These, letters to his family and to friends are full of interesting observations relating to the college and to the faculty. The vplume will prove of interest to all interested in Dartmouth.

Brunswick's Golden Age by Edward Chase Kirkland '16 has been published as a booklet of 45 pages in an edition of 100 copies. Part of the material in this booklet was given as an address under the same title in 1940 before the Woman's Alliance of the First Parish Church in Brunswick. Professor Kirkland in his foreword states that a good deal of the material for this work has. been secured from personal contacts, written records, and from the weekly town newspaper. Brunswick's golden age is the period of the eighties. Brunswick, the seat of Bowdoin College, was no longer at this time a rural town but had become a manufacturing town. A few of the inhabitants still gained their livelihood from the sea. Many, however, were French Canadians who had come down to work in the cotton mills and eventually became naturalized citizens. It was in this period that the public water system was introduced, and as the College Library was not open to the public, a free public library was instituted. To a person interested in local Maine history this publication contains a good deal of interest and value.