1897

In the picture accompanying the '97 notes this month is shown Vic, the one canine member of '97. He came to college with "Hiram"Tuttle and made a host of friends. Vic lived with the Reed Hall Gang. When we graduated, "Hiram" gave Vic to me and the dog returned to Thayer School for his post-graduate course with me. He joined gaily in the surveying courses, attended lectures at the Thayer School and heard discussions on bridge foundations and super-structures, pressures and flow of fluids in pipes, stress in structural members, railroad easement curves and gradients, overturning forces in dams and many other subjects. Surveying was his favorite of all, with "Johnny Vose." Those were hungry days out in the hill country surveying for a R.R. approach to Hanover up the Mink Brook Valley. When lunch was called, Vic loved us all but boys had big appetites. The much beloved "Johnny Vose" knew this and responded to Vic's attentions going about 50-50 with him on lunch.

The 50-Veai -Class claims to have introduced skiing at Dartmouth. Weld Rollins was the first man in our class to use skis. Joining him from time to time were Holt, Pender, Lewis,Woodworth and some others. Being a snowshoe man myself, I was jealous of "Pa" and his skiers and had Sammy Phelps, the interesting cabinet maker, make me a pair of skis which I think is the first pair of skis made in Hanover. As the sport has become so much a part of Hanover life in winter now, the claim of our class for the introduction of this sport should, if the claim is substantiated, have due recognition. The claim is made that at least six men of '97 used skis while undergraduates in the college and that no prior use of skis at Dartmouth is known. The ALUMNI MAGAZINE is requested to make inquiry to ascertain if any claim of prior use of skis at Dartmouth can be substantiated.

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