With the beginning of a new college

year the management of THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE undergoes some slight changes with a view to greater exactitude and efficiency in covering those items of Dartmouth news which are of particular importance to alumni of the College. To this end responsibility will be' divided. Professor Eugene F. Clark will assume, during the year, active editorial control of THE MAGAZINE in the selection and presentation of what may be called college news, as distinct from strictly undergraduate news; in the oversight of contributions to the periodical, and of the details of publication. His valuable and painstaking work in the past promises his successful fulfillment of the present larger and more onerous duties. The responsibility for the presentation of "undergraduate news will lie, as is proper, with an undergraduate, Mr. Horace E. Allen, of the senior class in College. Mr. Allen has had experience on the editorial staffs of The Dartmouth and Jack-O'Lantern. He has been an active participant in debating, and one of the leaders in founding and maintaining the Outing Club. Possessed of a just sense of values, he should be able, each month, to give the alumni a satisfactory view of undergraduate life as a whole, without the usual undue emphasis upon those phases of it that, at times, seem all engrossing and that,by their prominence among the news items of the day, divert attention from activities of more lasting importance. Professor Keyes, though absent from Hanover, will have immediate charge of the -expression of editorial opinion. His address during the year will be, Princeton, N. J.

In the death of James Bailey Richardson '57, judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Dartmouth loses one of her most valued and loyal alumni. There are some men who feel that in achieving a position of distinction for themselves, they provide a reflected glory which is sufficient compensation to the Alma Mater that nourished them. Judge Richardson was not of this type. Among the manifold duties of one whose active citizenship made him a leader in his state, he yet found time to act as trustee of Dartmouth during the difficult period from 1890 to 1903 when a new president had to be selected and under his guidance provided the faith and works essential to the reconstruction of the College. When the history of those thirteen years is written, the faithful courage and. unselfish devotion of the men who served on the board of trustees will be more fully appreciated. Judge Richardson stood by unflaggingly until, the hardest part of the work accomplished, he felt justified in tendering his resignation. He will be remembered, too, not only as a trustee but.as a benefactor of the College, the founder of the Joel Richardson scholarship, and a contributor to various financial needs.

Particular attention of the alumni is called to the account, elsewhere printed, of the recent meeting of the trustees and of their action relative to the probable expansion of the undergraduate enrollment. It is impossible, without a careful analysis of the statistical report of the President, which called forth the resolution, to enter at length into a discussion of the merits of the question which has been raised and, apparently, definitely answered. The student body, in all departments, now numbers some thirteen hundred men, sufficient to tax the present plant to its capacity. As it is, indeed, the need of a new dormitory and of increased chapel accommodation presses; and provision for more recitation rooms must be made. The economic problems to be encountered in providing these things to meet already existing demands are necessarily serious. In facing these, and at the same, time in bidding defiance to those others which their formal resolution may produce the trustees have shown a high order of faithful courage, which will win respect even if universal approbation is wanting. For it must be frankly admitted that, during the past few years, some of the alumni have looked with as much alarm as complacency upon the growth of the College. Their fears, however, have been grounded not so much in the economic aspects of the situation as in the spiritual aspects. Their anxiety is lest, in the. new order of events, the oldtime unity of purpose, the oldtime intimacy of fellowship., and the oldtime vitality growing out of these things shall be smothered in undigested and indigestible numbers. THE MAGAZINE has sympathy with these doubters, for the reason that, measurably, it shares their feelings. Yet it must, in all fairness, suggest some matters for their consideration. In the first place an institution does not expand or contract by mandate. It is easy to take exact counsel concerning one that is standing still: but the inertia of motion forward or back is difficult .to overcome. Dartmouth happens to be moving forward. Who is there, then, who can suggest an effective means of stopping the College in its tracks without dangerously applying the reverse lever? Again, granting that some such means could be found, at what point should it become operative? Is the ideal Dartmouth to be constituted of one thousand men, eleven hundred, twelve hundred, or of how many? What reason is there for worrying over a specific enrollment unless it can be shown that there is a clear cause-and-effect relation between it and decadence? These are pertinent considerations. If they fail to carry conviction ; if there is any considerable body of alumni who object, the time to thresh the matter out is now; the place is here. THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE will gladly open its columns to correspondence upon this subject, which it knows to be of prime interest to every alumnus. In the event of silence, THE MAGAZINE will proceed upon the gratifying assumption that everyone is satisfied.

In expressing gratification at the choice of, the football coaching staff some months since, THE MAGAZINE warned the alumni against great expectations during the coming season. The statement was. then made that Dartmouth's great need in football is a definite and consistent policy in accordance with which an eventually successful system of play may be worked out: and, further, that, in view of the constant changes in the rules of the game, and, at Dartmouth, the brief tenure of coaches during the past few years, little should be expected at first from the efforts of Coach Cavanaugh and his able assistants. At the present writing conditions seem to .warrant renewed emphasis of these points ; for the showing of the Dartmouth team thus far is not such as to warrant much confidence as to the outcome of the contests with Harvard and Princeton. Yet whatever the results, the assumption of the alumni should be that this year is but a season of preparation the true bearing of which can not be properly judged for another twelvemonth. If the men who have taken the task of rebuilding Dartmouth football shall succeed in accomplishing more than the laying of a foundation, we shall thank them. If they do not, there can be no just cause for blame.

When some four hundred leaders in the business world leave their offices at the very beginning of the busy season to journey many scores of miles into the hills, it is fair to assume that they are after something which they consider of unusual value. Such was the condition attending the recent Tuck School Conference on Scientific Management. Hanover was filled to overflowing. Whether all or any of those who attended the conference were converted to the new methods of business, has no bearing upon the importance of the event. These men had heard of scientific management, had read of it, no doubt had encountered individual promulgators of its doctrines; but it remained for the Tuck School of Dartmouth College to provide the first opportunity for the give and take, for the direct question and answer of an assemblage which brought together the theorist and the practical worker, the enthusiast and the skeptic. The authorities of the School wisely refrained from adopting any definite attitude toward the questions at issue in the conference. They were correct in their assumption that their task was to provide the field, and let the others do the jousting. From the standpoint of the School, therefore, the affair was a success when the experts were brought together and men flocked to meet them. If other conferences are held in the future, their existence will be due primarily to the initiative of the Tuck School in showing the way. If they are not held, it will be because the School gave opportunity for the definitive laying of a menacing ghost. Whatever the event, thanks of the business community are due to the School for its unusual and brilliant achievement.

The Dartmouth starts the year enlarged and improved. It heralds its coming, too, by the championing of a new idea, almost a revolutionary idea; nothing less, in short, than a change in the College song from the more or less time-honored "Come fellows let us raise a song," to Hovey's "Men of Dartmouth." In an excellent editorial the fact is pointed out that Hovey's great poem is scarcely three years the junior of Segur's verses that were tacked together, like some other Dartmouth songs, to meet the exigencies of the glee club. Of the latter The Dartmouth says "It has no local color,—there is nothing distinctive about it. Omit the words 'Dartmouth,' 'green,' and 'wah-who wah,' and it would serve any other college or preparatory school a? we'll.' The argument is really uncontrovertible. Indeed, the only point in favor of the traditional song is that it will stand pretty poor singing. Hovey's song will not. Even with Wellman's striding and vigorous music it is difficult. The time must be right, the emphasis must be right, the enunciation must be right. Otherwise it bears closer resemblance to mob violence than to a musical and poetic composition. But what an effect, gloriously and valiantly poured forth from a thousand throats, that Hovey song would have. It makes the blood leap and the little chills go wriggling up the spine even to imagine it. No need to make a ceremonial, the song is one to bring men to their feet, willynilly, with bared heads and glistening eyes. Vigor, dignity, and beauty it has, and .these are characteristics that we should like to associate with all things Dartmouth. By all means try the experiment of a change in the Dartmouth song and keep on trying until substitution is successfully accomplished.