Baltimore

OUR ANNUAL HOLIDAY meeting, with undergraduates home for vacation, was honored by the presence of our own Clark Barrett '38, lieutenant (j.g.) USN, back in Baltimore on leave, after distinguished exploits in the air against the Japanese. He told us of Bob MacLeod, who had shot down numerous Japanese planes, of Colby Howe, hard-fighting captain of Marines on

Guadalcanal, and of other Dartmouth men whom he had met here and there in the Pacific. Of his own prowess not a wordl

Another distinguished guest was Colonel Henry C. Stanwood, Maryland Director of Selective Service. He said the time of our meeting, so soon after the revision of the Selective Service Act, put him in the very embarrassing position of being unable to make any satisfactory statement as to future developments in his own special field. He could not say just how the inclusion of the eighteen-year-olds in the draft would affect the colleges and the students now in, or soon to enter, college, but told us what he could and answered numerous questions raised by members and guests.