Greatest Of All Dartmouth Reunions

AT ITS ANNUAL FALL MEETING LAST OCTOBER the Alumni Council voted that . all formal class reunions under the 50th be suspended for the duration. Since that meeting the 50-year class has also voted because of the difficulties of attendance not to hold a reunion this spring. Dartmouth seems to have been the first college in the country formally to take this action; most of the others have merely discouraged their alumni from coming back for class get-togethers on the various campuses this June, a policy that has many obvious disadvantages in comparison with our clear-cut action.

The hope was expressed last fall that a general reunion-homecoming should be held after the war, at which time all Dartmouth classes might return to Hanover to make up for the lost reunions of the duration, to renew fellowship throughout the alumni body as a whole, and to "rededicate the College to its high purposes." At the recent spring meeting of the Council the Committee on Alumni Projects, which has been engaged for several years past in the consideration of reunion matters, reported that there is much enthusiasm for such a general home-coming and promised that plans for it would be developed whenever the opportunity should be ripe.

Of course, little that is definite can be stated at this time, but it is certain that no attempt for an all-alumni reunion will be made until at least six months—probably longer—after the cessation of hostilities. Time must be given for men in the service, who will be especially interested in seeing their classmates of the College again, to return from the far corners of the earth and to be discharged. In order to accommodate such a large number of alumni, too, it will be necessary for the reunion to be held when the College is not in session and when the weather will give promise of at least a reasonable clemency.

The exact nature of the gathering must await a nearer approach of the event before it can be determined, but it will undoubtedly include both the usual festivities of individual class reunions and some more formal observances for the group as a whole. Whether a week-end will provide sufficient time, or an extension to a full week—perhaps combined with a "Hanover Holiday"—will be necessary will depend on various factors, particularly on the length of the war. Presumably a special committee will be set up in due season by the Alumni Council to make general plans and set in motion the machinery for their execution.

In the meantime, let every alumnus look forward to this greatest of all Dartmouth reunions.

Chairman, Alumni CouncilCommittee on Alumni Projects