1923

Here we start again with a great scarcity of personal news. Our class events just do not seem to penetrate into the winter events in Florida, but there are a few. This editor and his wife, Bee, and members of the classes of '21 and '23 had a very fine luncheon with Charlie Zimmerman at the Country Club of Florida. Charlie seemed fine, full of ginger and starting work on our 65th in 1988. Ken Smith and his wife and Walter Friend and Viola spend the winter at the Hillsboro Club at Pompano Beach. Bill Boise is president of the club, which in a gathering spot for Dartmouth boys and girls. Sumner Kilmarx '22 and his son and families were also there. Chet and Barbara Bixby spent about six weeks at the Gasparilla Inn on the west coast. We all seemed to well avoid the fierce winter snow storms which hit the Northeast this last winter.

And now I have been reading Francis Brown's A Dartmouth Reader, published by the College in 1969 and a very interesting bit of reading. It seems that there is a precedent for all the outrages and riots on campus. In about 1811 it seems that a few wild fellows had amused themselves one night by collecting all the cattle on campus and some others from the neighborhood and led them into the cellar of the College. They had then collected all the stones from a nearby stone wall and had barricaded the cattle. Previously such deeds had been hardly noticed by the faculty, but on this occasion the other more or less innocent students along with the wild ones were required the next morning to remove the stones and allow the cattle out. There had been considerable resentment among the citizens of Hanover. Most of the students seem to have been involved and, when asked by the president, admitted their involvement, replaced the odd doors and planks which had reinforced the rocks, and were fined 25 cents each. It seems that Dartmouth College was in its early existence quite a farm, raising 250 bushels of Indian corn, 300 bushels of wheat, and 60 tons of hay. (There must have been a goodly number of cattle.) Wheelock also improved 60 acres of land and raised 15 acres of rye.

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