Letters

"A Gracious Gentleman"

To THE EDITOR:

I want to congratulate you on the pictorial article in the June issue on the "Nichols Era," which I am very glad to see (and which has been long overdue). I honestly have sometimes thought there was a conspiracy to omit all references to that period and the brilliant man who headed Dartmouth College, a gracious gentleman.

When I read of the Honors Convocation, I dug out my "Mem Book" and looked at the program of the "First Meeting at Dartmouth College for the Award of Scholarship Honors," Oct. 30, 1909, and a second with the same title for Oct. 31, 1910. I seem to remember that there was then the same lack of enthusiasm among the undergraduates as seems evident now, judging by the attendance, and comparing it with the statement in "The Undergraduate Chair."

Generally speaking, I enjoy the MAGAZINE very much and it is one of the first magazines which I read when the postman brings it.

Washington, D. C.

"Good Fellowship"

To THE EDITOR:

Where Dartmouth men are: they gather. At any rate this is true when they meet at the General Councils of the Congregational Christian Churches. The tradition was continued at the Council at Omaha in June this year. After chance greetings with men from Hanover Plain some one posts a notice of a Dartmouth Luncheon, the faithful sign up and then gather at the appointed time and place. The Convener this year was Charles T. Brewster '27, of Yankton, South Dakota. A dozen gathered, in answer to this notice, at the Hotel Fontenelle, on June 26. They were: Larry Huntley '50, Larry Durgin '40, Telfer Mook '38, Charles Brewster and Charles Field '27, Horace Dalrymple '20 and Mrs. Dalrymple, Harold Belcher '12, John Scotford '11 and Mrs. Scotford, Wilbur Bull '09 and Mrs. Bull. At least two other men prominent in the work of the Churches were present at the Council: Robbins Barstow '11 and Dr. Frederick W. Alden '19, who had left earlier.

We missed Dr. C. C. Merrill '94, who is usually present at these gatherings. Only this morning did we read in Advance a notice of Mrs. Merrill's death, and our sympathy goes out to him. In this Council Meeting there was plenty of controversy and debate, leading to a decisive vote of historic importance; but as usual, in the Dartmouth Circle there was nothing but good fellowship.

Etna, N. H.