1901-1905 Boston Dinner

NOT FOR JUST ANOTHER reunion dinner, but to enjoy again in anecdote and hoary campus humor eight years of "Prexy" Tucker's Dartmouth, 65 members of the first five classes of the century met for their third group reunion in the redcushioned room of Schraftt's West Street Restaurant in Boston on May sth. This gathering has not dwindled with the years, for only 51 met to form the group in March, 1941. The class secretaries—Everett Stevens '01, Phil Thompson '02, Ned Burbeck '03, Dave Austin '04, and Walter May '05—rounded up their members in larger numbers than ever for another jolly evening planned by Major-domo Bob Harding '05.

From the College came "Watty" (E. B. Watson '02) with an account of the student Seamen and Marines at their daily routines in the gymnasium, the pool, the field, the dormitories, and the classrooms; also of the efficient planning for conversion to and from the requirements of wartime education, and of trainees' troubles in the frozen North. But the thoughts of the oldtimers went back more gladly to their own student days of certain peace, when it was excitement enough to make 8 o'clock chapel, to find a seat on the stagecoach, to wangle an excused cut from "Chuck," to catch an oyster in the Sunday night stew, to sleigh-ride the five-mile square, to snowshoe through the Vale, to "peerade" to Brown, to jump the log jam in the river, to join the nightshirt march to the "Junk," and shout down the cast of Uncle Tom'sCabin or Ten Nights in a Barroom playing a one-night stand at the Opera House; or to make the same march in dickey and Derby to greet Admiral Dewey on his tour after Manila. With a touch of nostalgia they again joined in rolling iron stoves down the Reed Hall stairs, in selling the new radiators to "freshies," in telling Eric who won the day at Canossa, in shouting

koo-ka-koo for Craven, and in fighting again the "cane rush" and "football rush," with the aughty-two's still boasting of how Phil Thompson sneaked away unseen with the football under his shirt shreds, cut it up for souvenirs, and returned a half hour later to watch the fight still going on. They remembered, too, the Saturday nights in Bissell Hall, shouting through the new game of basketball, and—some of themthe gatherings at Mink Brook around an imported keg. Again they heard the voice of Dr. Tucker in chapel and the wit of octogenarian Judge Cross who boasted on Dartmouth Night that he had known or could have known every Dartmouth graduate. Until long after closing hours such memories grew clearer and the rememberers younger with the help generously provided by the more prosperous of the group.

Comparing attendance with that of March, 1941, we find '01 growing from 10 to the following 12: Ned Calderwood, Charlie Chase, Frank Cudworth, Herbert Dunnington. George French, Eddie Gibbons, Jim Kimball, Tom McGovern, Steve Stevens, Johnny Ward, Charlie Whelan, and "T" Wood;

'02 from 4 to the following 12: A. H. Dalrymple, P. O. Dorr, "Louis" (G. L.) Dow, "William the Silent" (W. C.) Hall, W. C. Hill, Baker Keniston, "Beezle" (H. F.) Parker, Arthur Ruggles, Ralph Taylor, Phil Thompson, W. B. Thompson, and E. B. Watson.

'03 remaining at 13: Nat Batchelder, Dick Brown, Ned Burbeck, Vic Cutter, "Tubby" (C. B.) Edwards, Charlie Hall, "Pip" (P. W.) Howard, Charlie Luce, Otis P. Mudge, A. K. Smith, Orvil Smith, Harry Watson, "Prex" (P E ) Whelden;

'O4 growing from 12 to 14: Dave Austin, Artie Bolster, Karl Brackett, Earl Brennon, Matt Bullock, Ike Charron, Perce Hobbs, "Babe" (W. A.) Kneeland (C. I.) Lampee, Pete Maguire, "Cloyd" (J. T.) Maynard, Ned Robinson, Ralph Sexton, Carl Woods;

'05 growing from 11 to 14: R. W. Brown, Lafayette Chamberlin, Fred Chase, Bill Clough, Jim Donnelly, "Elsie" (L. C.) Grover, Bob Harding, "Sliver" (F. A.) Hatch, W. H. Lillard, Walter May, Roy Parkinson, "Midge" (G. S.) Reid, Jake Smith, Cy (E. M.) White, and his son John, class of '45.