1898

Fred Lord writes apropos of the '98 round-up in Boston November 13: "But Phil, I am in up to my neck in my teaching job, with twenty-four eager minds waiting for me every day, with the hope that I can let them know on which side their heart lies, and which is the right and which the left leg, and other recondite anatomical problems like these. My department consists of one able-bodied, and two less able-bodied gentlemen, trying to carry on the work of about three able-bodied (able-bodied can mean full-time) men. And if one man leaves, there is more to be done than the other two can possibly handle. And some of them are about all in, anyway." Can anyone doubt if Fred were quintuplets or even twins that his gracious and scholarly "figger" would grace the '98 round-up?

Bill Hewes writes, "We have built over ten thousand miles of roads to military and Naval depots in the western region, including air fields and war production centers. Our men are now returning from the approximately completed work on the Alaska Highway. We had some eighty contractors up there this season, with a force of about seventeen thousand, exclusive of our engineers, who ran several hundred more. We also have built seventeen flight strips in the West, mostly recently: three about one and a half miles each, in the record-breaking time of about one hundred days. They cost from three hundred to six hundred thousand dollars per each."

Good old Bill surely has made his con- tribution to the defense of our common country! His four manly sons are also helping Uncle Sam in important war work. "Dave" Hewes, Dartmouth '3l is in the Army.

Charlie Carr writes, "We saw the Dartmouth-Penn game and were really disappointed that Dartmouth did not at least tie the score. We thought they played well enough to win, but the score did not just show it that way."

Harry Lynch sends in his subscription for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and heads the list of those subscribing this year. "Bill" Williams is in the wilds of Maine trying for a shot at the fast-stepping deer. Good luck to his aim! We shall miss him and his lady at our round-up November 13. Sorry, Bill!

Albert Smith writes, "I am glad to know of the meeting in Boston on the thirteenth. I'd like to hear a Dartmouth yell again, and if I were not so far from Boston, I'd give myself a chance. When the ALUMNI MAGAZINE arrives I always resolve not to read it until evening, but I can't hold out, and within the hour I push calculations back on my desk and plunge into the picture, stories, letters and lists." Atta boy, Albert! You will live longer for so doing!

"Mushy" Jones writes, "I hasten to answer 'Yes' to your call for November 13. The 'Jones Family' consisting of the 'vivacious' Mrs. and 'lively Joan,' all six feet, the three of us, will be there then." "Mush" is one of our most enthusiastic 'gBers.

Secretary and Treasurer, 57 Grove Hill Ave., Newtonville, Mass.