"WHAT DARTMOUTH NEEDS"

The following editorial which appeared in the Lowell Courier-Citizen under the caption, "What Dartmouth Needs", is illustrative of the fact that there are persons outside of Hanover who are conscious of at least one of the present needs of the College.

"From chance headlines in the newspapers we gather that some one thinks Dartmouth college needs a $700,000 alumni clubhouse. Dartmouth needs a million-dollar library building a great deal more urgently than she needs any clubhouse for her alumni—more urgently, in fact, than she needs anything else, be it dormitories or laboratories. Almost the one respect in which the Hanover plant is now distinctly deficient is library facilities. It is a condition which should not be allowed to continue, simply because a thoroughly up-to-date gymnasium affords a contrast too strong for comfort with the little old library that was outgrown twenty years ago. With all due respect for athletics—and no college ever benefitted more through athletics than Dartmouth—the fact is that a college is a place for books and book-learning above all else."