1922

The cardinal question this month among college hopefuls is "Did you get in on your application?" and among the colleges, "How have we done on the incoming freshman class?"

Only the individuals involved can answer the first question, but the College has already answered the second. Dartmouth has se- lected her class of 1989 from more than 9,000 applicants, a record-breaking number. Last autumn 1,400 students applied for early decision, and 407 of them were notified of admission last December. That's approximately one out of three early decision applicants accepted then; one out of five were accepted later, under regular admission.

Now the important question for Twoters is: do we have any progenies in the class of 1989? So far we know of none, but if you do, please inform the class scribe. Otherwise, some young fry might think we never learned how to add and to multiply.

Winning a Rhodes Scholarship enhances the prestige of any class at any college. Therefore, the College and the present senior class acclaim Mark Kasevich '85 of Weston, Mass., as the 55th Dartmouth student to win a Rhodes. The young man is a physics major with a four-year grade point average of 3.7 out of a possible 4.0, and he is cocaptain of the men's swimming team. He claims, "Swimming helps you plan your time efficiently." He is one of the 32 successful applicants, 25 men, seven women the awards were confined to men until 1976 out of 1,116 competing USA candidates.

Incidentally, Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) does not seem to have been an early-blooming academic himself. At age 17 he left England for South Africa. He arrived there the same year that diamonds were discovered in the Kimberley field. Financially independent, he returned to England in 1873, entered Oxford, and for the next eight years divided his time between studying at Oriel College and mining diamonds in South Africa. In time he controlled the world's diamond production industry and acquired interests in profitable gold mines. He did get a B.A. from Oxford in 1881, and upon his death in 1902 he left more than three million pounds to establish the Rhodes Scholarships. He seems to have been a marvelous imperialist, a man of simple tastes, who said, "For its own sake I do not care for money... I want the power let who will wear the peacock feathers."

But what relevance does all this have to the small, declining class of 1922? Well, it always was a small class, but it did have three Rhodes Scholars: Prof. Ned Bliss Allen, Prof. Troyer Steele Anderson, and attorney JohnPorter Carleton. All three received B.A.'s from Oxford, and Troyer stayed longer and got an Oxford Ph.D. Twenty-two thereby rests its Rhodes Scholarship case.

Mark the calendar for Saturday, September 21. That day our Dartmouth football team opposes Princeton for the 65th time. The win record now stands Dartmouth 31, Princeton 30, and three ties. The game in Hanover will be preceded by a pre-game luncheon at the Hanover Inn for the World War I classes of '19, '20, '21, '22, and any earlier class representatives. More details next month.

As of this writing, March 8, the latest figures from the Alumni Fund office show the class of 1922 as competitive in the five-class group of which it is a member. This group consists of the classes of '18, '19, '20, '21, and '22. Among these esteemed contemporaries, 1922 on this date is credited with $30,169 received by the Fund. If 1922 is to achieve its 1985 Fund objective of $45,000, this means that $14,831 remains to be received. The $30,169 already contributed came from 51 donors, out of a goal of 94 donors. Consequently, to achieve its dollar objective and its participation goal, 1922, as of this date, March 8, needs $14,831 from 43 donors who have not yet contributed. That's the challenge '22 faces.

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