President Doing Well After Operation

PRESIDENT HOPKINS UNDERWENT a back operation at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital on March 13 and as this issue of the MAGAZINE goes to press he is reported to be convalescing in completely satisfactory condition in Dick's House.

Persistent back pains had kept Mr. Hopkins away from the office almost continuously since the middle of February, and on March 9 he entered Dick's House for observation. Doctors advised an operation for relief of his condition, which they explained was probably due to an old injury that had resulted in pressure on nerves in his back as they emerged from the spinal cord in the region of the injury. It is hoped that the operation has relieved this pressure.

A convalescence of a few weeks will make it necessary for President Hopkins to cancel all his out-of-town engagements during that period. He was scheduled to address the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Chicago on April 9. He will also have to forego his annual talks to Alumni Fund class agents in Boston, New York and Chicago in early April.