1890
The tremendous distance that the College has come, since our bathless dormitory days of occupancy, to the streamlined, comparatively gilt-edged condition of today, is well illustrated by a pamphlet de luxe just issued over the official signature of Sid Hayward. This is a manual for the use of class reunion committees, and if it omits any detail of the subject, such is not visible to the naked eye. It tells how beer may be easily supplied, and how, because of state law, deliveries for Sunday consumption must be made Saturday night. There are full instructions about arranging cocktail parties, the class to supply the liquor, and the College, the bartenders; and paper cups are to be used. Class breakfasts can run from coffee arid doughnuts to real ham-andeggs morning repast. It advises against bringing your children to reunions. It discourses upon reunion uniforms and identification badges. And it even very seriously discusses the matter of tips, their necessity and the proper amount. The volume is, of course, only a matter of academic interest to 1890, whose reunion days are probably in the past, but it proves our error in entering college at so early a date. Nevertheless it is a wonderful volume, and there should surely be considered in the award of the Pulitzer Prize for American Literature for 1948, this Dartmouth College Reunion Manual, and, perhaps, a personal Nobel prize for The Sid.
Gerould has now a new Scotch branch of his family. It is a granddaughter, Mollie Macdonald, born at Aberdeen in the land of the kilt, at the Thanksgiving season of 1947.
Bacon has now moved his office to Hanover Street in Boston, where he is under the same sheltering roof as classmate WalterRowe. His place of residence and address is 3 Dartmouth Place.
The subject of skis is still on the march since John Canty brought it up several months ago. Billy Jarvis, vintage 1893, writes me that when he came to Dartmouth he took over the rooms in Dartmouth Hall that had been occupied by Dick Vpham, who had gone to Harvard for his senior year. On the wall was a pair of crossed skis. They have remained with Billy since that time, and he now offers to send them to Hanover to be placed in some appropriate spot as a memorial to '90's initiation of the pastime of the skis and to the athletic giant of its class.
The fine story of the Alumni Fund is told in this number of the MAGAZINE, but it does not tell the whole flattering tale. Comparison with similar funds at such institutions as Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Princeton proves the great Dartmouth loyalty. The first three colleges have, of course, a tremendous graduate body, but Yale and Harvard had only a thousand more donors than Dartmouth's 13,538, and Cornell over 500 less. Princeton, our equal in size, had less than 8,500. Dartmouth led in percentage of contributions to graduates with 63%, with Princeton second with 43%, and Cornell bringing up the rear with 25%. Yale led in total amount of gifts with $392,000, but Dartmouth was a close second with $372,000, with Princeton at the end of the procession with $231,000. That is certainly a proud story for the Green.
Fund Contributors for 194 J 44 Gifts (Participation Index 191). Total gifts: $1,220.00 (203% of objective). JAMES B. REYNOLDS, Class Agent.
1890
Bacon, Alvin H. Beacham, Minot H.1 Boynton, Perry S. Boynton, William P. Bugbee, Perley R 2 Canty, John P. Charles, Will A. Cheney, Clinton M.3 Dearborn, George V.4 Earle, George W.5 Earle, William P. Gerould, John H. Grover, Frederick O. Hanson, G. Murray6 Hardy, Charles A. Hilton, Henry H. Holmes, Edward S. Humphreys, Clifton S. Leavens, George A.7 Locke, Arthur H 8 McDonald, John F.9 McDuffee, Willis10 Macdonald, Forrester11 Mann, William F.13 Mathewson, Ozias D.13 Mills, George S.14 Morgan, William G. Morrison, Edwin J.15 Morrison, Edwin J 16 Moses, George H.17 Nutt, Howard E. Perkins, Charles A.18 Pringle, Henry N. Reed, Will E.19 Reynolds, James B. Robinson, Maurice H.20 Rowe, Walter W. Ruggles, Daniel B.a Safford, M. Victor22 Sherburne, Elmer D.23 Shirley, Edward N.24 Smith, Lester F. Woods, Frederick D.25 Young, George B.28 MEMORIAL GIFTS FROM:1 Mrs. Beacham.2 Mrs. Bugbee.3 Mrs. Cheney.4 Mrs. Dearborn.5 Son, Charles W. Earle'22.6 Mrs. Hanson.7Brother, Robert F.Leavens 'Ol.8 Mrs. Locke.9 Mrs. McDonald.10 Mrs. McDuffee.11 Gift received prior todeath.12 Sister, Mrs. L. M. Ross.13 Mrs. Mathewson.14 Mrs. Mills.15 Son-in-law, Charles F.H. Crathern, Jr. '2O.16 Mrs. Morrison.17 Mrs. Moses.18 Son, Albert R. Perkins.19 Son, Harry Reed '31.20 Mrs. Robinson.21 Son, Daniel B. Ruggles2'2l.22 Gift received prior todeath.23 Mrs. Sherburne.24 Mrs. Shirley. r23 Mrs. Woods. 28 Mrs. Young.
CLASS AGENT JAMES B. REYNOLDS '90
Secretary and Class Agerit, 2456 Tracy Place, N. W., Washington, D. C.
