1895

Charles Holden sent me a Christmas card on which appears a colored picture of "U.S.S. College Hall-Dartmouth College," with groups of Navy men in uniform and in motion.

Who of us in our college youth ever dreamed that the Balch House on Golden Corner, later owned by merchant Davison, would be torn down stick by stick, and that a three-story brick utility building would supplant it? And above all, who of us ever could suspect that the U. S. Navy would swarm onto our college campus and set afloat, even nominally, on all sides of it, a fleet of warships with decks and quarter- decks, turrets and guns, and complete panoply of war, plus officers and crews? Holden's card emphasizes what I have known since the Navy took over in Han- over. There are still dormitories in Han- over, although some of them are also U. S. ships. This reminds me of the sailor's ditty:

Six days shalt thou work, And work as hard's you're able Seventh day swab the deck And pound the rusty cable.

A few weeks ago "P.I." Morrison's son, Professor Hugh Morrison of Dartmouth bought a '95 Reunion picture and sent it to his distinguished father. "P.I." was a bit puzzled about the identity of a few of his classmates. He did not attend that particular reunion. So he wrote me for help. He then wrote me as follows: "Thank you very much for your letter identifying the classmates in the 1935 reunion. The fact that I mistook the year explains much, but it does not explain all. Of the four, the only one I should have recognized is Sanborn, but I knew he had passed on before 1940. Pollard I knew well in college, but I did not recognize him so readily as Foster, Percy Folsom, Mclndoe, even Baker, whom I scarcely knew at all. I knew Newhart only slightly, but Lane as well or better than yourself, and yet I should know you if I met you in the Gilbert Islands. I suppose it is a matter of personality, both native and acquired."

Who of us can identify every man in the group picture of '95 freshmen appearing in this column? Probably no living one of us can. I'll start by identifying all but one or two of the stiff-hatted men. From left to right, those sitting are: Loud, "Phin" Wheeler, Flint and Kelso (?). Standing: Morrison, French, Rice, Ford, Mason, Marden, Raynor (?) Fox Crosby, Bugbee (not sure about the hat) General Davis, Arthur F. Campbell. Send me a complete identification, anyone, for The Reunionist.

CLASS OF 1895 poses for its Freshman Class picture on the steps of Wilson Hall. Can any '95er identify every face? ? ?

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt. Treasurer, Hanover, N. H.