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Rollo Hutchinson has been transferred to sea duty. Naval orders in the Boston Herald in January said that Rollo was to be on the U.S.S. Colorado.
The second accident due to the September si hurricane developed a week ago. "Mose" Linscott, while cutting up fallen trees knocked off a piece of the steel wedge in a log and "shot" himself in the leg. The piece, about §¾ of an inch long, was removed at the Needham Hospital. Fred Page, whose bad crushed foot injury is improving, was the first casualty about which we learned.
Line Wilson wrote from San Francisco just in time to miss the last issue of the MAGAZINE:
"If I were to give you my observation of the game, I would say that we had the best drilled team I saw play this year and some of the plays were beautifully executed. We did all right for three periods and then all the pounds which these men out West seem to have brought the usual result. I don't know just what the answer is with regard to any East-West football game. We sent a big tackle there (Han- over) a couple of years ago who weighed 2go lbs., and they told us he was too big, so they trained him down to 200. Out here they seem to make use of 235 lb. tackles with pretty good results. The lack of weight seemed to be our trouble.
"Yesterday I saw Bob MacLeod play with the East team and, as you know, they lost 14 to nothing. That game was a good example of what happens when eleven stars get together who are not coordinating, and then, too, whenever a West team tackles an Eastern team, they seem to be imbued with the spirit of "do or die" for the glorious West, whereas our Eastern teams sort of take it in the stride and do not have the "glorious" Western traditions to live up to. Just why they don't seem to have this will to win, I don't know. One Californian tells me it is the climate, but I don't believe it. This of course applies more to the East-West game than it did to the Dartmouth game."
A letter from Don Cunningham has just arrived from Denver:
"In regard to the Pow-Wow in San Francisco, I boarded the train carrying the special car at Ogden, Utah, and found a very fine group of men having a very pleasant time. For a great many of them, it was the first trip to the Coast, and they enjoyed the appearance of salt hanging like snow on the piling, which supports the Union Pacific tracks, as they crossed an arm of the great Salt Lake.
"We were met by a delegation at 8 o'clock in the morning, and took the ferry across the bay, which gives an excellent view of San Francisco, the bridges, and Oakland.
"Most of the crowd registered at the Mark Hopkins Hotel.
"At 10 o'clock there was a meeting of the Alumni Council, of as many members as could get there. Bill Cunningham gave an inspiring talk, as did Dean Neidlinger, and graduate manager McCarter. The meeting over, we went to lunch, and were amused by the champion divers of the Coast, male and female, in an indoor swimming pool. By this time I had seen Squire Wilson and Andy Comstock, of our class, and Red Loudon, and many other members of different classes. It was a very enjoyable gathering. The dinner in the evening was a fine affair with inspiring talks. The next day we went out to a game, with the weather so warm that you were hot and uncomfortable in an ordinary suit. It was an excellent game to watch, even though Dartmouth lost, and better sportsmanship I have never seen by two college teams.
"Most of the crowd entrained for Los Angeles that night at 1 o'clock, and I started back to Denver."
The Needham Times announces the signing of an agreement, in January with the publisher of the Needham News. Clayton A. Fairbanks, publisher of the Times, will continue the News, and "the future policy will be determined when final details have been completed." Also:
"The Needham Times was awarded second prize for general excellence among weekly newspapers of the state under 2000 circulation at the annual roundup of the Massachusetts Press Association held at the Hotel Kenmore, Boston, on January 9.
"Besides receiving the certificate of award for his newspaper, Mr. Clayton A. Fairbanks, editor and publisher of the Needham Times and retiring president of the Massachusetts Press Association, was presented a past president's pin at a banquet in the evening addressed by Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston."
Robert L. Johnson is superintendent of the Highway Construction Co. at Cleveland, Ohio, living at 190 Buck St. in Berea, Ohio. This is the first word from Bob in years.
The rotogravure section of the Boston Herald on January 29 carried two beautiful snow scenes of Cannon Mt„ Franconia, N. H., taken by "T. D." and Stephen Jewett of Laconia. Stephen is a junior at Dartmouth.
Sam E. V. Willson, 10, the editor, publisher, printer, and one-third of the staff of the Grove Street Globe, scratched his head with a pencil, and shifted a generous jawbreaker from one side of his face to the other.
"Well," he said, "I don't know if we've got what they call an editorial policy, but I guess we all hate Roosevelt." He turned around to his staff. The two junior members of the enterprise nodded their heads a bit doubtfully.
Sam is the son of General Willson of Rutland, Vt., and publishes the two-sheet paper with the aid of William Hale Kirby, 9, and Robert Willson, 7, both reporters. The paper is new, appearing for the first time about two weeks before Christmas, and contains personal items, appeals for the Red Cross, notes, and comment—particularly comment.
Another editor and publisher of long standing is Nat Merrill, 12, son of "Tubby" Merrill, who with Bud Evarts and Pat Prest, issues the NewtonvilleNews weekly. The paper was "founded in 1932" and is going strong. The two-page sheet contains editorials, news items, sports, jokes, "personals," and ads. Two cents a copy and worth much more.
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