THE WILLIAMS j Alumni review ! FOOTBALL TICKETS No refunds will be Wesleyan - Williams Game Applications close 5.00 p. m. Saturday, made on tickets re­ Weston Field ceived at the Ath- Oct. 29, 1938. letic Office after WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS Thurs. noon, Nov. November 5, 1938 3, 1938. at 2:00 P. M. PLEASE USE THIS APPLICATION BLANK TO: A. V. Osterhout Graduate Manager of Athletics Williams College I hereby apply for................ tickets at $2.20 each and am enclosing my check to cover, adding 25 cents to total to pay cost of mailing. Signed................................................Class................. Address........................................................................ St. and No. City State DIRECTIONS: 1. Make check payable to Williams College Athletic Council. 2. Enclose check and ticket application to A. V. Osterhout, Graduate Manager, 5 Hopkins Hall, Williamstown, Mass. TICKETS WILL BE MAILED AFTER OCTOBER 24, 1938 TICKETS FOR WESLEYAN GAME MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE WILLIAMS CLUB, 24 EAST 39th ST., NEW YORK, N. Y. Amherst-Williams Game at Amherst Mass. November 12, 1938 Tickets for the Amherst -Williams Game may be secured direct from the Director of Athletics, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. There will be no tickets on sale for this game at Williamstown or at the Williams Club of New York City. Published by Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., five times a year: October, December, February, May, and July. Entered at the Post Office in Williamstown, Mass., as second class matter under the Act of Congress, August 24, 1912. WILLIAMS ALUMNI R WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS VOLUME XXXI____________________ O ctober 1938________________ ANNUAL WILLIAMS DINNER also Celebrating the 25 th Anniversary of the Williams Club NEW YORK CITY Commodore H otel 7.00 P. M. Monday evening, December 12, 1938. No event is looked forward to more eagerly by Williams alumni than the annual dinner held in New York City. Plans for this event have been quietly under way for the past few months and the committee in charge is now making its formal announcement. Past dinners have brought together alumni cover­ ing a span of 60 years and have given the older men an opportunity to keep abreast currently with what is going on in Williamstown and the younger men an opportunity to show the zeal and the enthusiasm of the younger generations. But this year there is an added attraction, for on December 12, 1913, the Williams Club of New York opened its doors at 291 Madison Avenue for the first time and during this quarter of a century has provided an attractive meet­ ing place for alumni and a vitai center-for.Williams activities in the metro­ politan area of New York. Tbercfora, the .-combination of the annual dinner and the celebration of the 2'5$h,anniversary of ihe club marks an event that no Williams man will want ter jprss. • * ■ \ The dinner will be“ an AH-Williams affair, -Math the incomparable Jack Jay as toastmaster and three -speakers, Williams alumni, whose identities have not yet been revealed. * ..*•* * . * Colonel Clark Williams-''92, the father of the club; set a beautiful example on the opening night 25„years, ago by having W his Quests for the occasion the presidents of the Yale, Haryard, and Princeton clubs of New York City. Hence, the present presidents,»t)f these., cluhS^ a^d .also the presidents of the Amherst and Wesleyan clubs; wjt,.t>e» invited *tcr be our guests at the coming celebration. It is likewise expected that all the past presidents of the Williams Club, except our beloved Max B. Berking ’02, now deceased, will be present. The dinner will be held at the Commodore Hotel on Monday evening, December 12. A modest charge per cover should provide little excuse on the score of cost. Let every one of us note this “ red letter” date and make plans right now to be on hand. You will not want to miss it! COMMITTEE Fred E. Linder ’12, Chairman Lester Y. Baylis ’17, Vice Chairman William G. Austin ’05 H. Roy Horton ’15 Harry K. Schauffler ’22 E. Kendall Gillett ’08 Stuart Peabody ’15 Rolf B. Anderson ’29 Paul B. West ’14 Roger W. Riis ’17 J. Sanford Doughty ’32 William O. Wyckoff ’14 Henry K. Greer ’22 Robert D. McCoun ’37 2 WILLIAMS ALUMNI REVIEW October T h e A dministration R e p o r t s or 73.6% of the class, have had their training in private schools. ITHIN the last week copies of The total enrolment of the college is President Baxter’s first annual re­ the same as last year, as there are 820 W port have been mailed to all alumni. The students registered — 175 seniors, 200 report is a clear, concise, and eminently juniors, 195 sophomores, and 250 fresh­ readable document containing information men. Another interesting point is that and comments that are of vital interest to the mortality in the class of 1941 exceeded every Williams man. Normally this issue that in 1940. of the Review would contain a portion of Nineteen states and three foreign coun­ the information furnished by the president, tries are represented in the incoming class. but the Editor urges each alumnus to Germany, the Canal Zone, and the Nether­ read the story of President Baxter’s first lands’ West Indies each send one student year of office as he himself has written it, to Williams. New York, as usual, heads in a most interesting and forceful style. the list with 71 students, with Mass­ Additional copies of the report are avail­ achusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illi­ able upon application at the office of the nois, and Ohio following in that order. president in Hopkins Hall. Eighty-two private schools are represented, The only other report to be published by Phillips Exeter Academy, with 13 boys, the college this year is that of the treasurer. nosing out Deerfield by one in the largest Contrary to previous practice, this docu­ number of entering students. The Hill ment will not be sent to all alumni, but a School is sending 11 boys, Choate, Berk- limited number of copies will be available shher Loomis, and Andover each have 6, upon application to the treasurer’s office in Taft, 5,--Episcopal Academy, Kent, and Hopkins Hall. On a subsequent page of the North.- Shore Country Day School, this issue will be found a summary of the each 4. \ WilUamstown High School for report as presented to the ^president and the first tim e'in many years leads the Board of Trustees by Treasurer Make­ public institutions sending boys, with four. peace, together with a statement pf re­ Sons of alumni constitute 16.4 per cent ceipts and expenditures for tfie fiscal year of the incoming class, 41 in all. This 1937-38. total represents a decrease of three as "compared with last year’s number. T h e F r e s h m a n C l a s s . • ‘-The- program for the freshman class HE college year officially opened for for freshman week included many meet­ the class of 1942 on Saturday, Sep­ ings with various members of the admin­ T tember 17, at 8.00 p. m. in Jesup Hall,istration and the undergraduate body and when President Baxter, on behalf of the one large reception given by President and administration, welcomed the members of Mrs. Baxter. On Sunday, September 18, the 146th class to enter Williams. Anthony M. Menkel Jr. ’39, chairman According to the statistics released by of the rushing committee of the Under­ the dean of admissions, the incoming group graduate Council, explained the rushing enters with a total enrolment of 250, an system in full to 250 bewildered freshmen. increase of 21 men over the class of 1941. Following that meeting, the class of 1942, It is interesting to note that of this group the junior advisers, and the heads of the there are 66 boys from high schools, an various social groups were entertained by increase of 2.8% over 1941 and 7.7% over President and Mrs. Baxter at the annual 1940. One hundred and eighty-four boys, freshman reception. On Monday, con- 3 1938 WILLIAMS ALUMNI REVIEW ferences with faculty advisers and fresh­ felt by so many, but expressed as only man registration completed the day’s Dr. Wild could express them. activities. Tuesday morning the heads of “ I well remember the satisfaction with the various campus organizations ad­ which President Carter told me one day dressed the freshmen on the purposes and that Dr. Kellogg was to come to Williams activities of their groups. At 6.30 p. m. from Olivet as assistant professor of Wednesday, September 21, the rushing biology. This appointment took place in season officially opened, to last until the 1899, and four years later he was made following Tuesday, September 27. professor., Thus began an active con­ In the freshman meeting held on Satur­ nection with Williams that lasted until day, President Baxter pleaded the case for his retirement in 1934. tolerance and thoroughness in the edu­ “ In these 35 years a career quietly cational process and urged that the class grew and flowered here. It had to grow acquire broad intellectual interests rather quietly, for in no other way could any­ than mass accumulation of knowledge. thing that had to do with James Kellogg Among the members of the administration come about. But all the more surely it who spoke were Dean Halfdan Gregersen, led to his becoming one of the most dis­ Treasurer C. D. Makepeace ’00, Director tinguished biologists in the country and at of Admissions Thomas J. Wood ’32, Dr. the same time a great teacher.