DARTMOUTH'S UNDERGRADUATE DRIVE

Dartmouth's drive to raise $360,000 for a Memorial Athletic Field is at present the all absorbing topic of conversation among the alumni as a body everywhere. Naturally therefore, just at the beginning of this big campaign to raise the money to construct a suitable memorial to the college's war heroes, it is interesting to find out where the undergraduate body stands.

Those who are now in college must soon as alumni begin to take their share of responsibility to their alma mater. Realizing this, the student body has assumed their share of the financial responsibility in this drive. The campaign among the students was not the idea of a member of the alumni committee. It was at the suggestion of a man now in college that the students got in touch with the committee organized their drive, set a goal and passed it. Thus the contributions from this source are not one forced by external pressure, but a spontaneous one, the expression of a realization of a student's responsibility to the college.

To put through this drive a large mass meeting was held in Alumni Gymnasium with Prof. J. P. Richardson '99 and Prof. H. R. Wellman '07 as speakers. Palaeopitus at that time outlined the plan of the campaign. The Student body was asked for $16,000, or in other words four shares. In order that a man's contribution might be truly a gift he was not to be urged to give more than he felt he could well afford. What he offered was to be accepted with thanks. Pledges could be paid immediately, the first of May, or the first of September.

The student body immediately responded to this appeal and instead of subscribing the $16,000 asked for went the committee one share better. As THE ALUMNI MAGAZINE goes to press $20,084 has been reported, with 100 men yet to be heard from. In all probability the final mark of $22,000 will be reached, or in other words one and one-half shares more than was asked for.