1909

Dartmouth men who attended will long remember the memorial services for Richard Hovey '85 at his gravesite in North Andover, Mass., on May 4, 1957, the 93rd anniversary of his birth. At that time he was acclaimed the poet laureate of Dartmouth College. George Liscomb '07, a student of Hovey lore, promoted the affair and gave the story as a scoop to the Dartmouth Diddings, official news letter of '09. Subsequent Hovey reminiscences from sundry sources kept the story alive for several months.

One alumnus who knew the living Hovey, who followed his career, collected his works, and was responsible for publishing some ofthem, is Edwin O. Grover '94, vice presidentand professor of books, emeritus, of RollinsCollege, Winter Park, Fla. He writes:

From time to time I have picked up Hovey books and find I have a number of duplicates, after supplying Dartmouth with several. I have:

Songs from Vagabondia, apparently a first edition.

More Songs from Vagabondia, apparently a first edition, from the library of Janet Ashbee and C. R. Ashbee.

Last Songs from Vagabondia, with the bookplate of E. O. G.

The End of the Trail, first edition, edited by Mrs. Hovey.

The Holy Graal and Other Fragments, first edition, edited by Mrs. Hovey.

The Quest of Merlin, with bookplate of E. O. G.

The Marriage of Guenevere, with bookplate of E. O. G.

The Birth of Galahad, with bookplate of E. O. G.

Taliesin, with bookplate of E. O. G.

Grover reports that these nine books are in excellent condition, except for damaged backstrips of Songs from Vagabondia and Last Songs. He will sell them as a unit for $25. Any Dartmouth man seeking them for his library will get a bargain. The Psi U boys at Hanover might like to have the set in the house library. Hovey, a good Psi U, wrote several songs for the fraternity. Address E. O. Grover, 930 Cammelia Avenue, Winter Park, Fla.

Ed Grover's familiarity with and love of books was fostered during his association with publishing houses, first with Ginn & Company, and then with a rival house in Chicago. While there he was active in the Chicago Alumni Association and served as its president about 1916. During his term of office he had a Dartmouth song book published and distributed to the local group. Although past his middle Bo's, Ed is active in various projects. He writes and publishes poetry. At presects. ent he is whipping into shape the manuscript of a Breviary of the inspirational passages in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, under the title, "Walt Whitman Speaking."

"I discovered-Whitman 60 years ago," Ed writes, "when I was selling high school and college books for Ginn & Company in Little Rock, Ark. In my library I have fifteen feet of shelf space devoted to Whitmaniana, including the rare second edition and a Civil War manuscript."

The happiest and most satisfying years in Ed's life started when he became affiliated with Rollins College as professor of books, the first such professorship in the country. That was about 40 years ago.

Ginn & Company is, or was, almost a Dartmouth institution, for many good Dartmouth men have been connected with the firm. A few that come to mind are: Lewis Parkhurst '78, company president, who was a life trustee of Dartmouth; Henry Hilton '90, a partner in the Chicago office, was also a trustee; Pat Conway '97 was an executive in the Chicago office; Greetings Norton 'OB represented the company in the St. Paul and Minneapolis area on a part time basis during his years as a popular instructor in St. Paul schools; Roswell Pearl at the time of his death in '34 was an associate directing editor; Shorty Tyler '12 worked out of the Chicago office; Al Priddy '15, Boston, was a young man of promise whose life span was cut off all too soon.

Teas of Yesteryear

When the Psi U house was built during '09's junior year, a charming lady named Miss Sarah Smith lived on West Wheelock Street a few doors away. She was the daughter of a former Dartmouth president and came from an old Psi U family. Students nicknamed her "Sally Prexy," affectionately, for she was a gracious lady, greatly admired. Memory of Sally Prexy has been brought into focus by Mrs. W. E. Smalley, 4 School Street, Hanover, a reader of the '09 class notes.

"In the days when your class was in college," she recalls, "I lived in the Howe Library across the street from the Psi U house. I remember one day Miss Smith sent Emmet Naylor to see me about serving a tea, as I had just started to do that kind of work. At the tea, Miss Smith and Mrs. W. J. Tucker poured. It was all very lovely - bright silver, snowy linen, colorful flowers, tea, coffee, sandwiches, small cakes, nuts, candy. I did all such teas and suppers for a number of years. A student named Tucker (that's our Lynde) had charge of the house at about the same time. I was very fond of him.

"So you can see I enjoy the '09 letters in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. The old Arcade referred to is a fancy parking place. I love the picture in the December issue (a group of the Psi U boys and their dates on the front lawn). Of course you understand when we had teas in those days, I never saw any drinking. The world is turned around today."

I've got a date with Mrs. Smalley the nexttime I hit Hanover. Well do some high classreminiscing.

Note from Dr. Sanford B. Hooker, the Bradford, Vt., philosopher: "The Dutchman told me that the Princeton game, our last in the fall of 1908, was the roughest he ever played in. Jack Marks was laid cold in the first scrimmage and was out. If he did go in to punt, as per the newspaper account, it was purely reflex. He was not cerebrating. I saw the game and shall never forget little Spuddy's pass to Dutch for the winning score."

Sanford also presents this late bit of scientific news, to wit: "Cattle will be put on Sputnik No. 3 - that will be the herd that was shot around the world."

Don't shoot, men. He's really a nice guy.

The other day I found a facsimile of the original manuscript of Richard Hovey's Men of Dartmouth, written on Easter Day, 1894. The original was presented to the college by Arthur L. Livermore '88, and I have' presented my copy to George Liscomb '07. You can't tie those last lines:

They have the still North in their soul, The hill winds in their breath; And the granite of New Hampshire Is made part of them till death.

Class Notes Editor, 141 Pioneer Trail, Aurora, Ohio

Secretary and Treasurer, Sandwich, Mass.

Bequest Chairman,