1925

Thinking about the difference between violence on the campus today and in the twenties one classmate brought to our 45th reunion this year a copy of the daily "Boston American" of March 29, 1922. Across the top of the front page a headline in screaming red ink announced "200 Black Eyes in Dartmouth Fight."

Many of us have forgotten that the Class of 1925 precipitated a brief riot by marching across the campus to chapel that morning wearing plus fours, golf hose and sweaters, forbidden clothing for freshmen, and without the then mandatory freshman cap. Sophomores had gotten wind of the plan, organized on campus and with fists attacked freshmen entering chapel and again when the 300 who gained entrance had to come out. In addition to the above mentioned shiners, torn clothes and excessive amounts of mud (why did we do it in March?) were apparently the only damages.

It is not clear from the news story whether we won or lost. The "Cause" that motivated the confrontation seems a very minor one compared to those which face students today but the weapons were a good deal simpler also.

Fred Hooven, engineering professor in the Thayer School and an honorary member of the Class,.has been named by Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans to the Commerce Technical Advisory Board which advises the Department of Commerce on developments in science and technology. He was also named this summer to a special eight-member committee to advise the President's Council on Environmental Quality on government efforts to develop a new pollution-free automobile engine.

Francis Brown, mentioned here last month as an author, also appears as one of the New York Times figures in the book "The Kingdom and the Power" by Gay Talese. This history of the newspaper from an inside point of view has been on best seller lists since its publication last year and the section devoted to Brownie traces his career from 1930, when he joined the paper, through to his present position as editor of the Sunday "Book Review."

In the comprehensive and interesting "Surveys of Dartmouth Opinion" which appeared in September as a supplement to this magazine it was a slight shock to find that we are included in "the oldest group of classes, from 1893 through 1925." This is the only age group of classes which registered a majority opposed to the education of women at Dartmouth. At least we can think of ourselves as the youngest of the oldest group.

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