THE MEMORIAL ARCHWAY TO MEMORIAL FIELD

Dartmouth lost one hundred and eleven men by the World War.

"The still North remembers them. The hill winds know their names." This summer will see, "the granite of New Hampshire keep the record of their fame."

For three years the Memorial Field Committee has been working toward this goal. Bit by bit money has been collected. Bit by bit the parts, which will in the end, make the Memorial Field, have been built. The hockeyrink, the twenty-one new tennis courts, the surface scheme of grading and under-scheme of draining the great field, the new track, oval and straight-away, the new varsity gridiron and diamond the three recreational gridirons and superimposed diamonds, with the planned for development, of additional recreational areas on the Chase Farm, the iron fence with its handsome brick piers and gateways, are done.

The Memorial Archway and the grandstand on the west side of the field, are yet to be built. The architectural drawings for the same, made by Larson & Wells, present the keystone and crown of the whole project. They show a facade of brick arches from which projects the memorial archway. The general design is Georgian, in keeping with the Gymnasium and the general architecture of the College. Recall the height of Topliff Hall on Crosby Street. The archway will tower up among the trees to the same height, fifty-two feet. It suggests the simplicity and dignity of a Roman triumphal arch. Inside is the memorial rotunda. There will stand the .76 meter gun given to Dartmouth by the French Government. In one recess will be the bronze monument in memory of Richard Hall 'IS, the first American to fall abroad, given by Mr. Edward Tuck. In another will be the granite tablet containing the names of the men who died in the war. Beyond leads a passageway to the field. Through that passageway will march upon formal occasions the procession into and from the field itself.

As a grandstand this feature of the Memorial Field will provide seven thousand seats. Ramps of easy gradient, lead up to them. The exits and entrances are numerous. There are ticket selling windows in each end of the facade, toilet facilities likewise, and on top special provisions for the press. The construction is of steel and cement with the outside walls and the memorial corridor, of brick and artificial granite. The memorial tablets are to be real New Hampshire granite. Owing to the present status of the fund, certain highly necessary features have had to be cut out, but the committee has deemed it unwise to make any cuts which would mar the dignity of the whole scheme.

It is so desirable that the Memorial Archway should be built this year that President Hopkins and the Trustees have authorized the Field Committee to let the contracts for building on the faith that the alumni will subscribe the balance of the $275,000, set as the subscription goal. There is now $48,000 more to be raised:' It so happens that the total of the unsubscribed $4,000 quotas being raised by the classes '91-1920 is almost exactly one-half of the amount needed. The crux of the present situation is: will these classes '93, '94, '95, '96 '97, '99, '02, '06, '09, '10, '12, '14, '17,' '18 and '19 complete their quotas and will the classes back of '91 gallantly subscribe the other half needed. A few men in the classes before '70 are endeavoring to raise a $4,000 share as a contribution in memory of the "Spirit of '61". and a group of men in the 70's and 80's are at work on the balance needed from those classes?

The parents of the boys whose names are on the Honor Roll have subscribed $23,000. The non-Dartmouth members of the faculty have subscribed $1,212. The five undergraduate classes since the project started, to wit 1921-1925, have subscribed $28,772 and the present freshman class has just added another $4,000.

The Memorial Field is the only tangible expression of the honor and respect which Dartmouth men can give to the names upon the Honor Roll.

"John Alvord Rose, 1911, sent to England; torpedoed off the Irish Coast; last seen struggling in a rough sea holding a girl above the water." Just one of the one hundred and eleven. Does the picture get you? Do you want it to get the Dartmouth boy of the future ?

The Memorial Field Committee, President Hopkins and the Trustees have assumed that you do. Will Dartmouth men who have not subscribed to the fund, back them up by subscribing now.

The Memorial Field Committee,

COLLEGE HALL