1895

I recently spent a week in Potsdam, New York. Believe it or not, my presence in Potsdam brought to mind Dartmouth College as it was in the years 1891-1895. The green fencedin space which we knew as "the campus" was also the athletic field for foot-ball, base-ball, pole vaulting, foot races, etc. Right here is where "Potsdam" obtrudes. Those were the days of the triangular foot-ball and base-ball league,—Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams. Dartmouth and Amherst were not always cong enial rivals. Sometimes there was open hostility, and on the Dartmouth campus '95 men (and others) did, occasionally, with malice towards some and charity for all, herd together and conspire to damn Amherst, with faint praise, so to speak.

A group with bended backs and abutting heads would chant in unison, not too loudly, "Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Potsdam Am- herst." The last word loudly enunciated. I know I'm not dreaming. But I'm wondering how many 'gsers participated in this hair shirt pastime and can supply the emphatic word omitted above.

The Potsdam lawyer in whose office I spent hours of time, is a Cornell man, and of course had something to say about Dartmouth footb all, etc. I was interested to read the Cornell Alumni Fund Report for 1942-43. According to this report, Cornell '95 achieved 40.4% of donors. 78% of Dartmouth '95 contributed to the Alumni Fund. This should give a crumb of comfort to our Class Agent, "Sliver" Rice, who achieved 97% of objective.

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