1900
This is the second and last reminder of the Round-Up at the Follansbee Inn, at North Sutton, N. H., June 20-22. Surely you have made your plans to come.
Mrs. Charles Rogers has been spending the winter at her sister's home in Braintree, Mass. She is returning to her house in Alstead for the summer.
Olivia Foster, daughter of the late O. W.Foster, after graduation from Wellesley, has been teaching during the past year at Yreka, Cal.
The New York Times records, the death of Charles J. Boyle at Larchmont, N. Y., on April 21. Charles entered college from Worcester, Mass., and remained with our class for some two years. He was one of the most virile of the he-men supposed to be characteristic of the Dartmouth of our times; rough and ready in all his relationships. During his college years, for much of the time he and his fellow-townsman, Cavanaugh '99, made up a pair of bruising ends of the varsity team of the period. In his subsequent career he was unusually suecessful in the advertising business, being for many years executive vice president of Paul Block and Associates. He was graduated with the class of 1901 and as an alumnus considered himself to be affiliated with that group.
Not much class news has come to the attention of the secretary during the past month. Consequently he follows the example of Secretary Merrill '94, in the May issue and takes refuge in comments suggested by the notes of other classes.
Various members of the class of '97 set up the claim that that class introduced skiing at Dartmouth. Undoubtedly that is true so far as common action of a number of men is concerned, and the movement never entirely died out, although for many years it was in no flourishing state. Thus "Rastus" Wilder '99 was interested in the sport and in the writer's own class the pattern was set for what seems to the principal purpose of skiing, as is evidenced by a notice in The Dartmouth:"Hutchinson '00 took a header from skis and injured his knee." But the record should be kept straight. The first skis in Hanover apparently were introduced by C. S. Cook '79, who was an instructor in the Chandler School and College from '79 to '87. At some time during his term as a teacher (that is, before 1887), relying solely upon a description of Norwegian skis obtained from books, he induced John Brown, "a fine type of New England mechanic," to make a pair of such articles, which are described as "of fine appearance, 10 feet long, but rather too limber." With these appliances he skied to his heart's content on the hills of Hanover. An account of his experiences, written by Mr. Cook himself, appears in the January issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for 1924.
Secretary James B. Reynolds '90 is much upset because "those on high in Hanover" do not suppress the tendency of The Dartmouth to act as a political organ. Jimmie should hold on to his hat. It is true that The Dartmouth does comment on political matters and expresses the definite views of its editors. To the present writer these comments do not appear to be of much interest, but if the editors wish to publish them, why shouldn't they? It is also true that these boys do not have a large degree of "mental maturity, knowledge of political life and experience." On the other hand, to men beyond the age of 30 or 35 there may come an arterio-sclerosis of the thinking process which, despite all the maturity, knowledge and experience of advancing years, may make them completely immune to any new idea. So not uncommonly there is something of a standoff in the value of the published opinions of the old and of the young. Perhaps in the historical perspective which will come in the future the opinion of The Dartmouth concerning the dangerous qualities of Senator Taft and Speaker Martin will not be justified. On the other hand, perhaps it will be. Who knows? In any case will not Jimmie admit that the present trend of student thinking is superior to that of his own undergraduate days when the most spectacular bit of publicity was the appearance in an Aegis (not that of his own class) of a plan for a new stained glass window in the chapel depicting the burial of Ananias and designed as a memorial to 1817. "Rev D.D., 5.T.D.," the blanks being evidently intended to convey to the reader the name of the then president of the College. And the fact that "those on high in Hanover" at that time clamped down on the production with the utmost celerity and severity does not, perhaps, warrant similar treatment of the political writers in The Dartmouth in 1947.
Secretary, Hanover, N. H. Treasurer, 212 Mill St., Newtonville, Mass.
