1890

During a visit to the summer 900-student College, the secretary was much disappointed to find it the evident intention of those in command to go through with what so many of us in the horse-and-buggy-day classes of long ago think a serious mistake. This is the decision of some committee of thoughtless enthusiasts to name the projected great auditorium "The Hopkins War Memorial." This is the combining of two absolutely dissimilar ideas. "Hopkins" and "War" have nothing in common, but actually are in conflict. To an increasing number of Alumni, albeit, perhaps of the older vintages, the building should be either the Hopkins Memorial or the War Memorial. The proposed title is a misfit. What was the "Hopkins War?" Was it waged by Hopkins? Was it a war waged against him? To our mind it is a sad misnomer for a structure that is to be such a substantial part of the College. It was of course well intentioned, but there is now time for change. We would be the last to wish to detract one iota from the deserved fame of President Hopkins, or to oppose a testimonial to his value to Dartmouth, or as a factor in the thinking of the nation and the world. But it is difficult to believe that the creation of a mythical historical era known as "The Hopkins War" can achieve this desired result.

Mrs. George Young has abandoned temporarily her house under the protective eaves of the Vermont State Capitol at Montpelier, and lives in a gem of Green Mountain State, the town of Castleton.

Gerould wandered far afield during the summer. He motored with his daughter, Mrs. Chadwick, and her six-year-old son, from New York City to Austin, Texas. His son-in-law, Prof. T. Avery Chadwick, is teaching architecture at the University of Texas in that city. He left behind him, however, in Hanover, the 1890 class funds entrusted to him by Hardy. This money is now in my possession as Treasurer of the class. It is not an amount that will cause Congressional inquiry or income-tax investigation. Be it here and hereby declared that the cash assets of the class amount to $57.06.

Mrs. Maurice Robinson, since the passing of her husband, who was such a credit to Dartmouth in the educational world, has given up Florida and has moved back to the old home in Pine Orchard, Conn.

Bacon has given up the idea of returning to South America to become a factor in the government of the United States of Colombia and, instead, is getting into the active political situation in Massachusetts, and on the Republican side.

Secretary and Treasurer, 2456 Tracy Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.