1902

A report has reached us in a roundabout, but completely reliable way, that Cyril Smith was able to greet a visitor recently, and showed no hesitation in sampling the accompanying box of chocolates. He is in the Elizabeth Carleton House in Roxbury, Mass.

A recent letter from Hazel Wells tells us of the need to change all their plans. Warren had been in a nursing home while Hazel was near in their own home, in Orange City, Fla. Now following a hospital stay while a broken ankle was mending, Hazel has had to call for help. The fact that each had children by a first marriage provided Warren with a daughter who found a suitable nursing home for her father not far from her. Hazel has gone to live with a daughter of her own.

Warren's mail should be addressed: Care Mrs. W. E. Ullman, Apple River Road, Scales Mound, Ill. 60610. And Hazel's: 246 Spring St., Eureka Springs, Ark. 72632.

We saw changes going on at Dartmouth from our freshman year on. Probably some of the older alumni objected to at least a few of these changes, yet no one would have said that Eleazar's original college was perfect. But granted that change must come, why protest?

One answer is that sometimes a change which improves one aspect of a situation may have a different effect upon another. We are ourselves more aware now than we were, say, 40 years ago, of a phase of our years at Dartmouth which can still be due to the men of today, provided that its value is not overlooked.

What made a man who left us not long ago write that his four years in Hanover were the best years of his life? Yet every day he had to spend a considerable part of it working his way. Why did another, in one of the last letters he wrote, state that after all his real friends were his classmates? And what made it possible, years ago, for a classmate, in despair when he had exhausted his resources in his fight against an incurable disease, to receive from his classmates a sizable check?

Whatever it was, we don't think it was the physical equipment of the college, or the spread of the curriculum.

Secretary and Class Agent 6 Pasture Lane Darien, Conn. 06820