1898

Living in Hanover, it is always a thrilling experience to watch another Dartmouth year make its start - the gradual pouring in of the undergraduates, first the freshmen, to be formally "processed" (we needed it but never got it officially), then the upperclassman, greeting a friend, shopping for the new room, trying to find a parking place (officially provided for him in some half-dozen parking areas - or else - ). All move busily in all directions at once so that the same air of excitement as existed in 1894 and earlier pervades the town. Then follow the furniture-moving by the green-capped freshmen, their "conducted" rallies and bonfire building, the thrill of the Holy Cross football game's last few seconds, followed by the amazing first half of the Navy game Navy game a week later. And so,, once more, the College, the rushing season already behind it, forges full-steam ahead, as always. To see it is an ever-new sensation, like that one feels as a northern spring crowds upon the end of winter - always new, always glorious.

A recent letter from Pete Adams in Pasadena speaks of his sorrow at the death of FredBennis and of his high appreciation of him in his college days and afterwards. "Old age has few compensations to offer as against the loss of old and close friends... lam still continuing some work on a few astronomical problems left over from my years at the Observatory. They retain their old attraction. This is the semicentennial year of the founding of the Observatory, and since I am the only survivor of the original group which pioneered on Mt. Wilson, I am being called upon for various recollections and memories of its establishment." He speaks with deep admiration for his chief, Dr. Hale, and his remarkable far-sightedness in developing the Mt. Wilson Observatory. "Out of this beginning has come the world-wide leadership of the United States in the field of physical and observational astronomy." As Pete succeeded Dr. Hale as director of the Observatory, with whom he was associated from the start of the venture, he should know whereof he writes. Pete speaks also of two especially interesting stars of the first magnitude, "novae," I suppose, granddaughters, of very recent appearance. This is the reward of the "dubious honor" of being apparently the "oldest living alumnus in his region."

Ida Bennis stopped in Hanover on her way to the Hotel Laguna, Laguna, Calif., where she plans to spend the winter and to see her brother, the only remaining member of her immediate family.

Your secretary (who is also your treasurer), having examined the class bank account, is following the example of his predecessors and shortly you will receive a request for the annual class dues of five dollars (not much, is it?). Three dollars is for this MAGAZINE which you receive with such satisfaction, and two dollars is for the class dues, to help increase the amount in our depleted treasury. You will please note that for the next six months the secretary-treasurer's address is changed from Hanover to that printed above. The cash he will appreciate, but, much more, a word from every '98 man, with a personal word, of interest to all of us.

Secretary and Treasurer 960 Broadway, Dunedin, Fla.

Bequest Chairman,