1890

If any of you know of a person who is a non-graduate of Dartmouth who you think might be interested in making contribution to the Hopkins Center project in Hanover, you can do this good cause real benefit by letting his name be known. Send it to Bob Hage '35, Executive Secretary, at Parkhurst Hall on the campus, or to your Secretary who is a regional member of this begging committee. This non-graduate is a new idea, but it is based on solid ground. Over 40 per cent of the fund given or left to Dartmouth for plant purposes has come from persons who never attended the College. In the present crusade for financial support from "outsiders" there are many possibilities. Men who knew, respected and admired "Hoppy"; the parents of Dartmouth undergraduates and alumni; those who have good feeling for the College because of their contacts with Dartmouth men; those who should be interested in what the Center will do in the way of music, drama and radio; individuals and corporations interested in philanthropy. These are some of the eligibles to be considered. The great part of the Hopkins Center objective of $4,000,000 must come from outside Dartmouth. Any and every suggestion will genuinely help.

Bacon is doing some planning in regard to becoming a delegate from one of the Boston Congressional districts to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia next year.

There are two trophies given annually for general achievement in the raising of class contributions to the Alumni Fund. These are presented at the New York meeting of the Class Agents. One is known as the Reynolds Trophy, given by your Secretary, to that class out of college more than 20 years that makes the best financial showing. The other is the Hood Trophy, presented by Harvey Hood '18. trustee and outstanding Dartmouth worker, for that class making the best record that has graduated not more than 20 years before. The Reynolds award went to the class of 1914 and the Hood trophy to 1927.

Billy Earle, long-time resident of Florida's Miami, has changed his residence address, but not his city. He has gone up, at least numerically, from his 29th street home to 442 N. E. 74th St. As this move was made in August, it was evidently not the result of the great hurricane that moved so much and so many in that section.

In browsing into some old statistics, your Secretary did some figuring which brought out some interesting figures in regard to the classes with which we were associated in Hanover, from 1887 through 1893. The class with the largest entrance number was 1893 with 104 members, and second was 1887 with 100. Our neighbor, 1889, was the smallest with 89. Our own class entered with 95. The remarkable 1887 carried off the palm for the largest percentage of entrants who won graduating diplomas, 78%, and 1892 was second with 73. The other percentages of graduates to en- trants were: 1890, 72%; 1889 and 1891, 70%; and 1888 and 1893, both 67%.

In the matter of life tenure, 1887 has 17 living graduates and no non-graduates. For the other classes the respective figures are these: 1888, 9 and 3; 1889, 10 and 4; 1890, 18 and 6; 1891, 13 and 5; 1892, 13 and 6; and 1893, 27 and 8.

The Phi Zeta Mu fraternity pin of BillyMann's is now the pride of Clif Humphreys' grandson. Billy's sister, Mrs. Ross, an ardent Dartmouth fan and supporter, found it among his effects. There are only two of the 1890 Phi Zeta delegation left, the local Chandler School society in our time, but now a strong chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. These are Clif and John Canty. As the pride of Madison, Maine, has the larger family and, besides, was a roommate of Billy's in college, it was offered to Humphreys who accepted it with warmth and pleasure.

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