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A GREATER GETTYSBURG of the College which are known to exist at the time of this writing. The Hefelbower history contains much pertinent and accurate information, based heavily on these original sources. It deals most thoroughly with the years before 1904. From a later perspective, the text is as remarkable for what it could have included, but did not, as it is for what is there.440 If we can believe the editors of the alumni bulletin for October 1932, the centennial observance exceeded the "fondest of hopes." The only exceptional thing about the weather was that low temperatures chased the baccalaureate service indoors. Some two thousand persons signed the guest book, and it was believed that an equal number attended one or more of the events without observing that formality. The editors estimated that about 40 percent of all living alumni had returned to the campus during the five-day celebration and that there were approximately 175 guests from other institutions. All twenty-eight speakers appeared on schedule. They included the United States Commissioner of Education, the associate editor of the New York Times, the vice president of General Motors, and the president of the U.L.C.A. A sixth special occasion was the observance in July 1938 of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. The three-day program was the result of imaginative, yet practical, planning at local, state, and federal levels, which began in December 1934, when the president of the Gettysburg Chamber of Commerce named a six-man anniversary committee, of which President Hanson was chairman. Quickly recognizing that 1938 was going to be the final opportunity for a Blue and Gray reunion, and that an appropriate celebration would have to be a state and national event, the Chamber of Commerce included as active or honorary members of its committee Pennsylvania's two United States senators, the district's member of the House of Representatives, Adams county's two representatives in the Pennsylvania legislature, and the incoming governor of the Commonwealth. The active members of the local committee lost no time in seeking the necessary outside support. In April 1935 the legislature provided for a state anniversary commission of nine members. Governor George H. Earle named Senator John S. Rice, Gettysburg, of the class of 1921, its chairman and Henry W. A. Hanson one of its members. Early in 1936 several of these commissioners met with Presi- 440Professor Robert Fortenbaugh wrote the chapter on the Civil War and edited the one on fraternities. Joseph E. Rowe of the class of 1904 wrote the chapter on the Hefelbower administration. In his preface, Hefelbower explained that his account of events since 1884 "is chiefly narrative" because his generation "is too close to recent administrations to be able to view them in a historical perspective." 72