1898

The Florida sojourners have now been augmented by Bucky and Marie Chandler who left for Florida by auto the day after Christmas, and by Joe and Sue Bartlett who went by plane after New Year's.

Fred Bennis has returned to California and his address there is Hotel Upham, Santa Barbara.

Although located in Texas for many years and far distant from the College and away from class activities, the real Dartmouth spirit still lives and thrives in Harry Nichols as shown in this letter received from him from Houston:—

Am sorry I neglected to mail you my subscription and annual dues. Here they are. Hope the others will come through.

Here in Houston, the fastest growing city in the U. S., we have an Alumni Club of about 35 or 36 men. I never knowingly met a Dartmouth man here in 25 years; only to find out I had done business with several. I was surprised to receive notice that a Club had been formed of about 30 men. Many went to war and we had only eight or nine left. You see most of them were young men. There were only two oldsters, Sturgis '91 and I. The next member graduated 18 or 20 years later. Sturgis and I are of the old era. This is a new era. The Houston Alumni Club had the pleasure of a visit on December 3 and 4 of President John Sloan Dickey of Dartmouth. He was well entertained here and he told me we had the largest turnout to greet him at our banquet of any city he had visited. Another demonstration of the Dartmouth spirit. It is unexplainable but it is there. I was especially interested in a new course at Dartmouth offered to the senior class, which .bridges the gap between academic life and civilian citizenship. You know education is a stepping up and stepping down. A boy graduates from higfi school, steps down to be a freshman in college, steps up to be a senior, and down to a freshman in civilian life. Some who think they have the world at their feet only find out that their success in life depends on their own efforts. This course is intended to deal with economic, social and political, national and international questions. It should soften the step down. As oldsters—We, like the little old lamplighter, made the world a little brighter—we old grads of long ago. With regards to all the boys.

Secretary and Treasurer, 14 Sayward St., Dorchester, Mass.