"Dartmouth Undying"

THE Class of 1921 last month presented the College with a specially bound volume containing the text of DartmouthUndying, the poem by the late Franklin McDuffee 'si, which with music written by Homer P. Whitford has become Dartmouth's best loved song. The little volume contains a foreword by Prof. John Hurd '21 and a copy of the letter by Mrs, Dora McDuffee, mother of the poet and widow of Willis McDuffee '90, in which she describes the day when the poem, requested by President Hopkins, finally came into being.

The volume will be on permanent exhibition in the Treasure Room of Baker Library. It is printed on special handmade paper and is bound in full morocco, the creation of Edward C. Lathem '51 Assistant Librarian of the College.

The presentation took place on October 18, during the weekend when the Class of 1921 was holding an informal reunion in Hanover. The ceremony was attended by the poet's mother and also by his sister Maud, the wife of Prof. philip E. Wheelwright, who formerly taught philosophy at Dartmouth and is now at the University of California in Riverside. Harry C. Chamberlaine '21 presided at the ceremony, and speakers were Prof. George L. Frost '21 and Ellis O. Briggs '21, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil, who reminisced about the early poetic career of Franklin McDuffee in Hanover and at Oxford University, where he won the Newdigate Prize, usually considered the highest poetical honor awarded to young poets in England.