1890

The College made a comparison of scholastic averages for a typical semester of the 1946-1947 college year. There were 1,293 fraternity men with a scholarship average of 2.459. The 1,304 non-fraternity men had an average of 2.339. The average of all the college, 2,597 students, was 2.398. There are now 22 fraternities at Dartmouth. In our day there were eight. In this scholarship ranking of last year these eight stood in the following order. Alpha Delta Phi, 4th; Theta Delta Chi, 6th; Delta Kappa Epsilon, 14th; Kappa Kappa Kappa, 15th; Beta Theta Pi (Vitruvian in our day) 16th. Psi Upsilon, 19th; Phi Delta Theta, 20th; Sigma Chi (our Phi Zeta Mu), 21st.

Of the 18 living graduates of 1890, the Alpha Delts stand at the head of the list of survivors with five. Phi Delta Theta is next in line with four, and the Tri Kaps just behind with three. The Psi U delegation is reduced to one, as is that of the Dekes. There is no one left of the Theta Delts. In our Chandler School Societies there are two left of the Phi Zeta Mus and one of the Vitruvians. And there is one non-fraternity man among our eighteen.

John Canty protests the claim of the Class of 1897 that they started the use of the ski at Hanover. He remembers that the famous "Jabe" Ellis '89, had some skis made in 1888, and that he went with him at the time and helped in using them sliding down the hill back of the Observatory.

Grover reports that he is "vegetating and enjoying a quiet life with a charming and devoted wife." And he certainly deserves such reward after his busy career. He had been head of the Department of Botany until his retirement in 1933. But that was only giving up a particular teaching job. For the next ten years he was collaborator with the U. S. Department of Agriculture in its Bureau of Plant Industry. He is still a member of the Administrative Board of the Ohio Biological Survey, and has recently been made an honorary life member of the Ohio Academy of Science. He is secretary of the Oberlin Village Improvement Society, and of the Oberlin Park Board: During the war he was a member of price control panels of the O. P. A., and thus added to his knowledge of plant life a thorough knowledge of human nature. And he is still doing botanical research, has published four papers in different fields of his pet subject, and has a couple more on the way. If this is "vegetation," what would be activity? And a "devoted wife" is surely a very important part of such a regimen.

Hilton spent some time recently in (he Lowell General Hospital and under an oxygen tent. But the good news is that the serious illness was conquered, and he is now back home and on a rapid convalescing basis, with a good rest prescribed for his tomorrow.

Walter Rowe's son, Preston, served in World War I as a sergeant, in World War II as a captain, and is now serving in veterans work with the rank of Major. The Rowe grandson, Willard, entered Dartmouth this fall. He has passed all the tests for West Point with flying colors, and at the end of his first year at Dartmouth will decide whether to enter the Military Academy or to continue at Hanover. The granddaughter is now a freshman at the Massachusetts State College at Amherst. Both of them obtained very high rank in the New Bedford High School.

The Class of 1888 has been advanced to sec- ond place in the percentage of "objective" or quota in the Alumni Fund crusade of this year. This jump is a high one, from 21st in the original official report. It represents the sum that came to the Fund through the terras of a will concerning which no notice was received until after the final statement was made up The gift was $1,000 and besides boosting 1888 to high rank among all classes, makes the 1947 Fund grand total $372,103.

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