Boston
ON FEBRUARY FOURTH the Alumni Association of Greater Boston held its Annual Dinner at the Copley Plaza Hotel, with President Arthur T. Soule '08,—now Lt. Col. Soule—presiding, and some four hundred fifty members in attendance.
Following a brief business meeting a quartet from Hanover sang several of the old Dartmouth songs we all love so well. Called back for an encore the boys sang a most catching arrangement of the old ditty which, after explaining the short lives of many animals whose abstinence from alcoholic beverages is complete, ends:
"But sinful, ginful rum-soaked, menSurvive for three score years and ten."
The audience loved it. Be it said, however, your correspondent fondly hopes no one jumped to premature conclusions connecting it with previous attendance at the "Eleazar Wheelock Tavern"; we presume no prognostications were intended.
President Soule next introduced Professor John Pelenyi of the faculty. Prof. Pelenyi, who formerly was Hungarian Minister to the United States, is now spending his second year in Hanover conducting courses in "Power Politics" and "International Organization." After a most amusing portrayal of some of his impressions of Hanover Prof. Pelenyi gave a brief description of his aims and methods in handling his courses. The students on the campus today certainly are fortunate to have such an opportunity to learn of some of the problems the world will face following the war, and Dartmouth may indeed be proud to number Prof. Pelenyi in its official family.
Capt. H. M. Briggs, USN, commanding officer of the Naval Training School in Hanover was introduced as a guest of honor and responded briefly.
President Hopkins was the final speaker of the evening. No one could express the concept of the need for the continuation of sound liberal arts education as did the beloved head of our Dartmouth Family. "Hoppy" was at his very best! Every Dartmouth Man should be proud of the leadership in the thought of the times which our College is assuming under Pres. Hopkins' guidance, and of the way in which steps already are being taken to put into actual practice of the Plains of Hanover a curriculum which will light the way for other American Colleges.
The arrangements for the meeting were handled by Chester Butts '11, Jim Woods '33, Gardner Cushman '35 and Dick Muzzy '35. The number in attendance and the smoothness with which the whole affair was run—particularly in the midst of troubled times—form a great tribute to the work of these men. On behalf of all Boston alumni we say "Thanks a Million!"
Officers elected for the coming year are: President, Frederick A. Carroll '09; Vice Presidents, Chester C. Butts '11, John F. Mac Donald '90, Weld A. Rollins '97; Treasurer, Richard D. Muzzy '35; Secretary, Duncan H. Newell Jr. '36; Executive Committee, Calvin B. Geary '32, James F. Woods '33, Stanley C. Neill '34, Gardner C. Cushman '35, Duncan H. Newell Jr. '36, John H. Devlin Jr. '37, William Ganter '38, Lawrence P. Pleasants '39, Dwight Flanders '40, Richard H. York '41.
