1920

Our "nostalgia" items for this special issue are gleaned from clippings and snapshots in Bud Weymouth's album, furnished by Alice. On January 8,1917, sleighs, vintage cars, and foot power brought an overflow audience to Alumni Gym to hear popular hellfire and brimstone evangelist Billy Sunday. A neat brochure from the Hanover Inn lists its transient rates' at $3.00 to $7.00 a day (outrageous!), with weekly rates "somewhat lower." A number of winter shots of the station and trains at vanished Lewiston, Vt., show students flocking back to Hanover (on foot) after Christmas vacation. (There were very few autos at any season in Hanover, where parking is now a major problem.) For the February 1920 Winter Carnival, the ladies are advised (in free verse) to look "pretty and warm," not "expensive and cold," and if they wish to snowshoe or toboggan, to bring a short skirt and bloomers. The "gentlemen" should have truckmen's mittens and three pairs of lumbermen's socks, among other warm items.

Then, as now, war was in the air: "French Army Officer to Speak in Commons" (undated); "Dartmouth to Vote on the War Question" (1927; students also to indicate whether they would enlist); "Plan Students' Training Corps" (July 8,1918; college men to train as war instructors). There are also snaps of good-natured hazing. Golden days!

Hope Frey has forwarded notes from Pat(Audretta) Butler, Alice Dewey, Frances(McGoughran) Durling, Harriet (Miller)Hight, Emilie Palmer, Ralph S. Roberts,Wendell ("Sig") Sigler, Anne Thomson,and Warren Turner. I hope in the April issue to quote amply from these welcome messages.

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