SOME DISCUSSION CONCERNING MESSRS. LENIN. AND TROTZKY

Seizing upon Trotzky and the late Nikolai Lenine as good copy Metropolitan newspapers announced last month during the course of the "Pow-Wow" in Chicago that President Hopkins had stated that if either or both (as the income tax blanks say) of these gentlemen were available he would be glad to have them in Hanover as members of the Dartmouth faculty.

What President Hopkins did say in the course of his remarks was: "Recently, after we had brought a certain man to Dartmouth for a talk, I received a letter from a man who said we might just as well have brought in Trotzky or Lenin. I wrote back to that man and told him that if Trotzky or Lenin were available, we should be very glad to have them come to Dartmouth."

There were, of course, a few rather snarling complaints from some newspapers and 102% Americans, in reply to the statement with which the President was credited, but in general the great bulk of the comment editorially and by letter was distinctly favorable and comprehensive of the point which President Hopkins was endeavoring to make. The best of the editorial comments was that from The Boston Globe which ran as follows: