Boston

THE ANNUAL "Dartmouth Night at the Pops" was held at Symphony Hall on May 22nd, with roundly 1600 Dartmouth men and their families and friends in attendance. This event long has been one of the most popular on the Boston calendar, and the experience this year indicates it will continue to be so for some years to come.

The program itself was a fine one, on which, all but two numbers (exclusive of some of the Dartmouth specialties) were Pops Recording numbers. Arthur Fiedler .conducted on all except the Dartmouth songs, and the beautiful music of the evening refreshed our memories once again on why the Boston Pops Concerts are famous the world around.

A generous portion of the program was given over to Dartmouth music, and for some 0f the pieces it was the first time the new full orchestrations had been played for the public. The audience enthusiastically accepted the mvitation to join in singing a group of the best known numbers. Jacob H. Strauss '23 conducted the orchestra for these numbers, a"d Harry McDevitt '07 led the singing.

Appropriate cheers at the appropriate moments throughout the evening were led by Jack English '16, and added much to the general atmosphere of the occasion.

The arrangements Committee, headed by our present President, Howard Stockwell '17, felt very badly that a substantial number of applications for tickets had to be returned unfilled—yet there simply was no other way around the problem. Symphony Hall was most generous in allotting us a larger than usual number of seats for the evening, and even so the applications far exceeded the supply. Every effort was made to give priority to applications and preferences in the order in which they were received, as well as to have classmates sitting near each other, and the Committee deserves warm praise for planning such a fine concert and for handling the complicated arrangements so skillfully.

Application already has been made to the Symphony for the same corresponding evening next year—which would be Wednesday evening, May 21, 1947—for our next "Dartmouth Night at the Pops." It is of course too early to count on one specific evening (the Symphony does not make its assignments until into March), but we are planning definitely on another of these enjoyable gatherings some mid-week evening the latter part of next May.