1934

These cold phrases should not be so, because, if it kills us, we intend to slip them hot off the griddle under the door of the editor's cluttered workshop before we leave Hanover at the end of this beautiful interlude of class officers' meetings.

Then again they may not be so hot because of what we have behind us as weary eyes and fumbling thumbs try to find synonyms for we and us ... for the college has wined and dined the assembly well and sumptuously. . . . John Dickey has stunned us with statistics which show why some of our sons don't make it and probably prove that, in retrospect, the class of '34 would have been made up of Em Day, Don Allen, FrankFoster, and 661 other bright-eyed boys who wouldn't have been you and I, Joe . . . and we have been instructed in our duties to such an extent that even ye sec is a little ashamed of being late with this stuff . . . then a blazing sun and a not bad baseball game with Navy made the bleachers seem not too hard through a long afternoon . . . until it was time to sit on the grassy terrace of the Chieftain Motel (Commercial), sipping gin and tonic, and look down upon the glassy surface of the lake donated to Dartmouth by New England's largest and finest electric system-(also Commercial) to watch the finish of a couple of crew races.

Somewhere in there with our wife of long standing, and suffering, one Mary, and Billand Jo Wilson, Stan and Barbara Smoyer,Bill and Gerry Scherman, we sat late into the night listening to Mary O'Brien, who runs the '34 alumni fund campaign, and JackO'Brien, who is the class agent, express amazement that year after year in that Green Derby competition with those rag-tag, no-count classes we used to regularly beat at anything from apple judging to the Pilver sweepstakes, the class of you-know-what has always been in a very undignified position in the parade, a position which could be defined more clearly if this were not a family journal, so to speak.

So, although we are not supposed to mention too loudly the crass jingle o£ the money bags in this cultural corner, may we point only to the glorious words which might have been uttered by that immortal umpire, Bill Klem, "sic transit gloria mundi," which by literal translation could mean "get your base hits today, because there may be no game Monday."

30 YEARS AGO . . . '34 was winding up its first year in Hanover. . . the Daily Dartmouth listed in its final edition a new business board which included from '34, J. Dolben, A. Donaldson Jr., M. Dwyer and S. M.Palmer . . . G. L. Engel was awarded the Tirrell prize for greatest progress in physical improvement with due regard to classroom work (due regard being easy because G. L. knocked off 3.5) ... a mail survey conducted by the Poste Chaste column of the Dartmouth indicated that 31% of all letters from Hanover went to Smith College, 19% to Wellesley, and, thanks to '34, Colby Junior was in third place . . . and, looking to Commencement, Alden Tavern in Lyme, announced that delicious chicken and steak dinners would be dispensed at the price of $1.00 per each.

NAMES IN THE NEWS, this month a little thin . . . John Jay Gordon, of Weston, Conn., curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, will be sole juror for Silvermine Guild of Artists 12th New England exhibition, June 18 to July 16. Jack has been associated with the Whitney since 1959. From 1952 to 1959 he was curator of paintings and sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum and was previously with the Department of Circulating Exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.

And to clear the correspondence file and close the books for the year we have a little note, a la George Gipp to Knute Rockne (if ever you need one, Rock, etc.) - come to think of it not the most apt simile, for if you are still here you can see that the wrong end of this simile is dying - from Jeff Jackson. "Perhaps sometime you might need some research material to bolster your work among modern educators - the attached might help, even though borrowed from the depths of an insurance trade mag, in commenting on higher education, a colleger-president said - 'The main reason for the 'four-year college course today is that Harvard adopted it in 1636. Harvard adopted it because Cambridge and Oxford had it; they had it because Oxford, when started in the middle of the 13th century, adopted it. Oxford adopted it because English parents who had been sending their sons to Paris to study informally had earlier decided that four years of university study . . . would be a reasonable length of time to stay away from home. In this careful, studied scientific fashion we have concluded that four years constitutes a complete college education.' "

And in this careful, studied scientific fashion we have made your contributions carry us through the MAGAZINE year. Hope you have a good summer and we both do better next year.

Secretary, 12 Berwick St., Worcester 2, Mass.

Class Agent, 131 South Third St., Orleans, N. Y.