1917

The football season is over, and Dartmouth has won the Ivy League Championship. Then, too, the hockey season is finished, Dartmouth showing third in collegiate hockey in the country, after being beaten by North Dakota only 4 to 2 and winning over University of New Hampshire by 7 to 3 in the consolation game. The University of Minnesota was entitled to first place after subduing North Dakota. Although the basketball team did not do quite as well, it has nothing to be discouraged about. A lack of height and size on the offensive was balanced by a persistently dogged defense which at least kept the opponents from making any overkill scores. We may well take pride in our athletic accomplishments this year.

On the other side of college life are the programs in the arts. The Drama Department has done some excellent work in acting, staging, and costuming, much of it unique and student-oriented. It is surprising how many of our graduates from that department have gone into theater business in one phase or another with great success. The Music Department continues its noon and Sunday afternoon recitals to give students an opportunity to face an audience and reveal talents. The Dartmouth Symphony, made up of students and area people, offers excellent concerts of rather ambitious programs. The Visual Arts Program is also doing well. We understand that Dartmouth students in architecture are displaying good talents and ideas in the Graduate School of Architecture at Harvard. The results in these different fields of endeavor make it clear Dartmouth still stresses undergraduate opportunities for diversified studies. We sincerely hope for continuance of such a goal.

During a recent trip to Florida one of our widows called on Josephine Hutchins and had dinner with Jane Swett. Josephine is doing well and was looking forward to a pleasant visit from her daughter. Jane has retired from her church work and is now giving thought to a bit of travel. Why not turn northward, Jane, and come to Hanover on September 22 for lunch with us and the Classes of 1918 and 1919? We shall be glad to see you and hope you may lure others to come along with you.

Recently Helen Brooks went over to England to attend some lectures on esoterics. On arrival, however, Helen found that the lectures had been canceled because of inflation. Undaunted by this, Helen went to Brussels to spend three weeks with her son William Brooks '51.

Please, dear classmates, give your secretary some news of yourself or friends, be the items good, bad, or indifferent - as long as they are printable. We want no blank space where the 1917 class news ought to be in the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

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