Unfortunate Son

Here’s a little-known tidbit related to the sinking of the RMS Titanic 100 years ago this April: Howard “rainy” lines, class of 1912, had family aboard the doomed ship. His mother, Mrs. Ernest H. lines, and sister Mary were traveling from Paris to attend lines’ commencement. Although both passengers survived the tragedy that took 1,500 lives, it is unknown whether they made it to the ceremonies in Hanover. We do know that Lines was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and managed the Dartmouth Gun Club. After Commencement, Lines attended Harvard Law School. In 1915 he volunteered as a driver for the American Ambulance Corps in WW I. During a difficult term of service, Lines endured grippe, chicken pox and close calls with flying shrapnel before he died of pneumonia on December 23, 1916, in France. lines, who was recommended for the Croix de Guerre, a French military award, had attempted to raise $600 from his classmates to endow a “Dartmouth bed” at the American Hospital of Paris. After his death lines’ classmates successfully endowed the bed in his memory.

“Amarna is one of the few places at Dartmouth where a strong adherence to tradition does not exist.” —THE DARTMOUTH, IN A STORY ABOUT THE UNDERGRAD SOCIETY THAT OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE TO GREEK HOUSES IN PART BY HAVING AN OPEN MEMBERSHIP POLICY

32 Total appearances in sports Illustrated’s “faces in the Crowd” department by Dartmouth athletes, coaches and staff