MR. STREETER'S ADDRESS

GENTLEMEN OF THE DARTMOUTH ALUMNI COUNCIL:

My message from the Trustees of Dartmouth to the Dartmouth Alumni Council can be briefly told.

This Council represents, in a special way, the desire of the Dartmouth Alumni more efficiently and practically to aid the President and Trustees in carrying on the work of the College. For that purpose this permanent organization has been created and you now are the official representatives of the Alumni chosen by districts covering all sections of the United States.

We understand that some doubted the expediency of such a countrywide organization and were pessimistic as to its practical working value; also that others questioned the attitude of the Trustees toward such a body. I come to dissolve those doubts so far as the Trustees can do so.

Speaking for -the Board, we believe that since the election of President Nichols no step has been taken which promises greater potentialities for the good of the college and the extension of its influence than the creation of this Alumni Council.

We believe that this Council be regarded as permanently established, and should be dignified and strengthened by placing upon it 'responsibilities as large as may be permitted by the nature of the respective relations, legal and otherwise, of the Trustees and Alumni to the college and to each other.

The Board of Trustees will gratefully welcome the active co-operation of the Alumni Council in all things that shall tend to promote and enlarge the educational influence of the college throughout the entire country.

The scope of the Council's activities cannot be formulated with precision at the outset but will naturally develop through sympathetic conferences of its representatives with the Trustees.

The Trustees will expect and welcome such suggestions as may be approved by your organization to be submitted at any meeting of trustees.

It gives me great personal pleasure to be the bearer of this message to you.

Following Mr. Streeter's remarks it was Voted: That the secretary of the Council be instructed suitably to express to the Trustees the pleasure of the Council in the attitude toward that body displayed by the Trustees.

Mr. Moore was next called upon to review the queries of an alumnus with regard to the undergraduate life of the college today. "Mr. Moore stated frankly that he had been at one time pessimistic with regard to the soundness of latter day college discipline, but that as he had observed Dartmouth men in their undergraduate relations and in their attitude toward their work as young alumni, he felt highly encouraged. He spoke of the curriculum, of student activities and the problems which they present, and dwelt at some length on the fraternity situation.

He was followed by Professor Bartlett, whose inimitable presentation of news on undergraduate affairs quite defies paraphrase. It will be printed in full in a forth-coming number of THE MAGAZINE.

Mr. Keyes closed the discussion with a few suggestions derived from the remarks of the previous speakers.

At 11 o'clock the session adjourned.

Morning Session

Saturday morning at 9 o'clock the Council re-convened. The following officers were elected:

President, E. M. Hopkins. Vice President, H. P. Blair. Secretary, H. E. Keyes.

Committee on Alumni Fund—F. A. Howland, H. L. Moore, W. T. Abbott, J. P. Richardson, H. P. Blair, L. B. Little. On Alumni Projects—H. G. Pender, M. C. Tuttle, E. J. Bartlett, C. B. Little, R. C. Campbell, I. J. French. On Preparatory Schools—A. L. Livermore, W. Thayer, C. W. Pollard, W. E. McCornack, S. C. Smith, E. A. DeWitt. On Undergraduate Affairs—J. R. McLane, J. F. Drake, P. C. Redington, H. E. Keyes, C. W. Tobin, W. G. Aborn.

In the making of committees, that Oil Publicity was eliminated and the membership distributed through the other committees.

Copy of a letter from Warren Upham to President Nichols, concerning raising funds for a library building and endowment was read. General consideration of the project was referred to the proper committee.

The full report of the Committee on the Alumni Fund was read and accepted.

It was voted that the President be empowered to refer to proper committees any matters arising between meetings ; that the President, Vice President and Secretary constitute an Executive Committee.

Adjourned 11.30 A. M.