Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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New Yorlg fissociationf, N the Fall of 1863, the Rev. Daniel Lancaster, '21, conceivedthe idea of forming an Association of Dartmouth men resident in New York, with the view of dining together once a year, and assisting the College in such work and in such ways as might be deemed most advantageous. According to tradition, this idea materialized in the shape of an informal gathering held in the Astor House soon after, but the records give no account of the meeting. The first dinner was given in honor of the Rev. Asa Dodge Smith, D.D., President of the College, and was held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in 1866. The committee in charge consisted of Benjamin NV. Bonney, '24, Chairman, W'arren D. Goodin, '30, Robert Colby, '45Q Edwin T. Rice, ,44, Horatio N. Twombly, '54, and Walter Gibson, '58. The first President of the Association was Absalom Peters, '16, then a promi- nent clergyman. The first Secretary was 'William M. Chamberlin, M.D. The present President is Charles F. Mathewson, of the class of '82. The primary object of the Association was to dine once a year and help the College in such ways as it might deem advantageous. The New York Alumni were prompt in their aid. Hiram Hitchcock erected the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hon. Williani W1 Niles, Horatio N. Twombly, George S. Edgin and others, established scholarships, Harry C. Bullard, '84, gave the organ in Rollins Chapel. The New York Association takes in part of Pennsylvania, New jersey, and Connecticut, and its list con! tains the names of over seven hundred men, many prominent in their professions. Among the prominent members are Charles L. Dana, '72, ex-President of the Association, and a well known specialist in nervous diseasesg Dr. R. Osgood Mason, '54, Dr. A. L. Ranney, '68g Iohn Ordronaux, '5o, M.D., LL.D. Others, active in newspaper work are Luther B. Little, '82, Ballard Smith, '7o, I. B. Reynolds, '90, Among those prominent in the legal profession are Daniel G. Rollins, '60, Hon. Horace Russell, '65, Hon. Nathaniel H. Clement, '63, The roll also includes many men well known in business circles. Said Samuel C. Bartlett, ex-President of the College, at one of the dinners, I have come to pay my respects to the Alumni of Dartmouth College, forl remember that the Col- lege only has its centre in Hanover, but its circumference in New York, Boston, Chicago and all over the world, and the College is wherever., men of clear heads and honest men and workers for the general good are found. CHARLES F. MATH EWSON, I4 I

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The Posltoty fllfuifnni flssfoelatioho , J I I ffig,-Xigljfrhrsx -fluff ,pri A YERYONE knows that Boston has a great many Dartmouth men in the foremost ranks of business and professional life. They are leaders in all the best interests ofthe city. It is also an undisputed fact that these go-ahead Dartmouth Alumni have not forgotten their Alma Mater. To them is largely due the credit for the New Dartmouth which is fast making the College one of the first in the country. They took an active interest in the management of aiifairs, besides standing by it in a financial way. The Dartmouth Alumni Association was iinally established in 1865, and has been growing stronger and larger ever since. No hall is large enough, it is said, to hold the hundreds who meet at its large meetings. When the question of admitting ladies came up in '83, the executive committee, to which the matter was left to decide, refused to act upon it, thus squelching the idea. Caleb Blodgett, President of the Boston Dartmouth Alumni Association, was born in Dorchester, N. H., june 3, 1832. Entered College as a member of the class of '56, he taught school winters while in college in Fitchburg, Mass., till May, 1858, when he began the study of law with W. W. Stickney, '23, at Exeter. He studied with other law irms until 1860, when he was admitted to the bar at Worcester. Soon after he commenced practice in Hopkinton, Mass. Removed to Boston in 1860 and continued practice till 1882. He was then commissioned by Governor Long an associate justice of the superior court of Massachusetts. He is a man who has made an honorable record by the impartiality and accuracy of his decisions. ' ' The Dartmouth Lunch Club, which is hardly second to the Association itseli was organized about nine years ago, by Messrs. Williams, ,72, Paul, '78, Proctor, ,79, and Tucker, '86, From this small but enthusiastic beginning has grown up a club of hundreds of members. There were seventy present at the iirst lunch, these lunches occurred once a month on Saturday afternoon during the winter. JUDGE clues stooserr. 13

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The Qilfyelrinzitl Flggoelatlong Y. is X i-55:,4 l-IIS Dartmouth Alumni Association of Cincinnati and vicinity, was organized in 1875, being the first of the Dartmouth Associations i11 the West, antedated only by those in Boston fllld New York. The purposes of the organization were the bringing together, in a social and fraternal way, the sons of Old Dartmouth, scattered through the States of Ghio, Indiana, Kentucky and 'West Virginia, and the aiding in the development and building up of the College. Those who have had the pleasure of attend- ing any of the annual re-unions will not doubt that it has accomplished the first of the above purposes, while the influence of the members has been felt in many ways with refer- ence to all the various measures for promoting the welfare of the College, that have been brought forward in the last twenty years. XVhile the attendance at the re-unions has necessarily been small, Conly enough to comfortably to fill a locally famous round tablenj the witty and reminiscent speeches, with College stories and songs, have for the time being rejuvenated the busy men and made them College boys again, enthusiastic for the future as they are proud of the past of Alma Mater. Some years ago the custom was established of selecting as president of the association that member who was senior in date of graduation and had not held the position before, and to continue him in office two years, and as the honor thus comes by age the recipient realizes the flight of time, and how long ago he was a Col- lege boy. In the other offices a change is rarely madeg and to the present secretary, Mr. Cf. B. Parkinson, of the Class of 1875, who has held the position since january, 1884, and to the Chairman of the Executive Com- mittee, Mr. Frank O. Loveland, of the Class of 1886, who has held that position for years, the credit is most largely due for the success of the Association and the pleasure of its meetings. John S. Conner, president of the Cincinnati Association, was a member of the class of '65, In 1866 he began the study of law with General Edward F. Noyes, '57, in Cincinnati. Mr. Conner is a graduate of the Cincinnati Law School, '68. Became first assistant city solicitor in 1869, which office he held for four years, when he entered private practice. Judge of Court of Common Pleas, of Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1881. Served for ive years, and returned to private practice. He has since been engaged in his profession. HON. JOHN s. CONNER. 15