Boston, Mass., June 8, 1910

( The Alumni Magazine publishes with pleasure communications from it? subscribers, but assumes no responsibility for opinions expressed. )

Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine Dear Sir :

I venture to trespass on your space with reference to a matter I have had in mind for some time.

I should like to see the College adopt a Dartmouth Flag. It has always seemed to me that the average college banner is somewhat silly. It has no particularly distinguishing characteristics, differing from many high school flags only in lettering and color.

Why not have a real Dartmouth Flag that we could reverence and rally about; a thing of beauty; a real symbol which would help distinguish Dartmouth from every other college ?

So far as I know no college has such an emblem; but I should like to see such a flag flown every day from a staff on Old Dartmouth, side by side with the Stars and Stripes; floating in the breeze of the Alumni Oval at every intercollegiate contest.

Would it not be inspiring to see ten thousand Dartmouth men at the Stadium. at the close of the Harvard game, reverently singing the Dartmouth Song and finishing with a simple, dignified salute to the Dartmouth Flag ?

Suggestions as to the form and color of such a flag would occur to every one. I would like to see a silken banner with pure white background bearing in green the College seal, or the outline of the Old Pine surrounded by the College motto.

If the desirability of a Dartmouth Flag appeals to everybody as it does to me.

I believe a Committee of the Alumni from suggestions of alumni and undergraduates could doubtless select one that would be ideal and enduring. Yours very truly,