1894

Since at this writing the December issue has not appeared, the contest for the first registration for our Fifty-fifth Reunion cannot start. Here's hoping that you will use airmail and special delivery, Decker, because Paul Jenks will probably try to get ahead of you. Indeed, if the Secretary were to search his papers thoroughly, he might find that Paul has already "registered." The Committee of Arrangements has been in correspondence with the College and in order to avoid crowding at the Inn, we shall probably be domiciled in Middle Massachusetts Hall.

The writer of this column advises the authorities at Hanover not to be at all disturbed because the College has been attacked by the Chicago Tribune. Indeed, they ought to be disturbed if at some time or other Dartmouth College was not attacked by the Tribune. This writer well remembers how during his residence in Chicago some twenty years ago he was compelled (because the other morning paper was even worse than the Tribune) to read this paper as his morning diet. The striking thing that he recalls is that its news columns were quite unreliable at some very important points because they were the reflection of editorial policy. No wonder the Tribune squirms at this being exposed.

Word comes from Randolph, Vermont, that the area of which that town is the hospital center (about eighteen towns in all) was largely occupied last summer with the successful raising of $305,000 in order to carry through an expansion program for the Gifford Memorial Hospital. Those who attended the funeral of Dr. John P. Gifford in Randolph 25 years ago have not forgotten the remarkable outpouring of the countryside. He was the sparkplug of this hospital. He built it on a solid foundation and his work goes on.

Ben Welton wrote for the Round-Up as follows: "Can't come to dinner. Will be in Florida long before then. Reason our spring ran dry the other day. We'll probably be in Orlando and will maybe see some '94 boys in Florida." Since when, Ben, have you begun to confine yourself to a postal card? Here is a call for a real letter in March or April giving a full account of your experience and travels and contacts with '94 men in Florida this winter.

Says Kent Knowlton: "As I miss the Round-Up for the second time in more than 25 years, I wonder whether I have fully appreciated the PrivileSe of being within annual reach of so many of the class fnd even more frequent opportunities for meeting a nearby few. think I shall have to wait until the 55th for the next get-together that includes me, but one ot these days, when meetings are further apart, I hope to go over to Boston. Five years between meetings would be altogether too long.

I don t think one can migrate from a region in which he has spent all his life without some measure of regret. I can't get used to the stodgy New York papers, so much less readable than the Herald; during the baseball season I missed the news of the Braves and the Red Sox and now the report, from the Dartmouth football season, though the accounts of the games are not bad. But I do enjoy life in a big town with its greater advantages and the greater nearness to cities. Then too this is a beautiful town, in a region more attractive than eastern Massachusetts and with my daughter's automobile to get the benefit of the scenery of the New Jersey hills "

Secretary, 74 Kirkland St., Cambridge 3,8, Mass.

Treasurer, 89 Prospect St., Somersworth, N. H.