Spotted Record

The busiest person in Hanover last month was Miss Lois Dunn, house mother and administrator at Dick's House, who on her most frantic day had 115 ailing students in her care. Some sixty students with mild cases of flu were already jamming the infirmary to twice its normal capacity when German measles reared its ugly head in Hanover, striking impartially among college men and the small fry of the grade school.

To take care of this situation, the D.O.C. House was pressed into service as a measles ward and during the worst period a daily average of about fifty students were segregated there. The College produced cots and bed linen, Red Cross aides joined forces with the few nurses who could be sent there, .-Miss Gill contributed a chef from Thayer Hall, and Dean Syvertsen, hospital officials and others helped out in a variety of ways. This joint effort met the emergency in a most satisfactory way. A Dartmouth reporter, who had to catch the measles in order to get in, wrote that the students in the D.O.C. House were enjoying the food and having a wonderful time.

German measles, although highly contagious, is mild in its effects and of short duration. At this writing the epidemic seems to have passed its peak, and Miss Dunn is no longer confronted with new cases in lots of thirty to forty a day.

Largely through wishful thinking, the rumor got started that College would close early, but this was quickly spiked. The students may not have to wait for spring, but they will have to wait for vacation.