1890

It is becoming very apparent that our class graduated too early. The College is making changes that seem to be all for the better, but so far as we are concerned they are purely academic matters. The most important of these is the shift that is being made in regard to class Reunions. The new system to be adopted will bring together three classes that were in college at the same time. In other words, if this had been the rule in our day, we would have had reunions in the company of the classes of '89 and '91, instead of a gathering at Hanover with no graduates who were in college in our time. This will, of course, interfere with the regular five-year cycle, but eight reunions will be on the old system and in no case will a class be more than one year away from their normal year, and in no case will reunions be more than four nor less than six years apart. There has also been fixed.what should be a very successful arrangement for the Commencement season. It puts Class Day and the Commencement Ball on Friday, the Alumni meeting, the baseball game and the theatrical performance on Saturday, and the graduation ceremonies on Sunday. For us such change is, of course, also very academic, but it seems a very excell ent one.

The convalescent life of the secretary was very much lightened by an afternoon meeting for prayer and conference here with The Dickerson. This spark-plug of the Parkhurst Hall Brain Trust, who for so many years has regally and ruthlessly led the Alumni Fund to annual victories, was on his way southward to visit the wilds of Tennessee and the metropolis of Chattanooga, a place eminent in history for having been the site of the Battle of Lookout Mountain and for being his donor to Dartmouth. He had just completed the task of selecting next year's entering class at the College and making up the list of some six hundred who will enter Dartmout doors out of more than 4,000 applicants. Upon the subject of whether or not there were allowed to get upon this list some young gentlemen who had at least a speaking acquaintance with a football or a baseball he was very noncommittal. But here's hoping!

The Hardys have also trekked southward to visit their son who is a resident of the aristocratic part of Philadelphia known as the Main Line. Unfortunately for me, the trip did not get below the Pennsylvania line. The Football Sykes seems to be a very busy person, returning from a trip to Chicago only to start off again to a convention in Los Angeles.

Mrs. Locke tells me that she has nothing to report in regard to her life and doings, only that she is leading a peaceful existence in Penacook, N. H. She is living with her nephew Dick Rolfe, class of 1921, and has been with him since she left Portsmouth. He is the Chief Accountant of the New Hampshire Unemployment Compensation Board. And Mrs. Teddy continues to be one of the most loyal and enthusiastic distaff-side members of our class.

Bacon intends to return to the Colombia part of South America from time to time, as he still has interests there. That was his location when both World Wars started. He is fearful of a lengthy sojourn in the tropics for fear that with this record, World War No. 3 will begin if he lingers long. In his opinion, "thanks for what the tropics have done for me as to health," he can say that life begins at 80.

Mrs. Mollie Young has sold her dismantled house at Montpelier and left permanently the capital city of Vermont for her location is Castleton. This brings her home very much nearer to the famous city of Glens Falls, N. Y., noted for having given to the world Charles Evans Hughes, Secretary of War Bob Patterson, and your secretary.

Unfortunately for the world of politics and of history, the memoirs of Senator GeorgeMoses will not see the light of published day. His passing was too early for him to have done a complete job. The telling of his political life story in the way in which he would tell it had been eagerly looked for, and the giving up of the publishing proposition is a real disappointment.

Mrs. Elmer Sherburne is to give to the musical organizations of the College, in behalf of her husband, some manuscript music composed and arranged by him during his lifetime. We all knew of the musical prowess in college of the man who was our valedictorian, and will look forward to the hearing of this musical number. It is a medley of Dartmouth airs and will be given to the proper Hanover authorities in the name of the Class of 1890. Mrs. Sherburne is now a resident of Melrose, Mass.

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