25TH REUNION.

By David Camerer '37.New York: David McKay Co., Inc., 1967.247 pp. $4.95.

David Camerer was a well known football player and later a sportswriter for the New York World Telegram. His array experience he put in his novel The DamnedWear Wings. He knows the broadcasting world, recently exposed by Fred Friendly, and there is a certain amount of criticism of it in his new book, 25th Reunion.

This book is about a Dartmouth before the selective process became part of the New Frontier.

Although he calls the college Cardigan, everybody will recognize it as Dartmouth. There are fine things said about the late Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins, who in the book is Dr. Tucker. Professor Westmoreland is a combination of various professors, and some of the things I have written about modern education I recognize as being quoted here.

Mr. Camerer knows the slick world of suburbia and New York City and his book is full of reminiscences about the past at Dartmouth, the many young men who were killed in the war, and like all modern novels it has some exciting scenes of love making.

I probably didn't attend my 25th reunion myself, but if I did, I certainly was not as sophisticated as some of the characters in this book.

Although Dave is no Thomas Mann, his book will be enjoyed by any Dartmouth man who reads it, and by any other college generation who have been out 20 to 25 years. I hope a lot of you will buy it. HERBERT F. WEST '22

Prof, of Comparative Literature Emeritus