BOSTON GLOBE EXPLAINS DARTMOUTH'S GROWTH

The Boston Globe in an editorial appearing two days after President Hopkin's King's Chapel address in Bostoij, gives its opinion as to why Dartmouth is achieving a high intellectual estate. We are glad to Print this testimonial of the high respect which our president commands wherever he goes.

Not Without Honor

The President of Dartmouth was speaking at King's Chapel. His address was brief a quite unpretentious. Yet if anyone is curious to know why Dartmouth under his presidency is achieving such a high intellectual estate the meager excerpts of this address printed in these columns yesterday will give a strong hint.

Ordinarily, when a man in a position of official or educational authority delivers a public speech its tone is distinctly that of information-from-above. "You sit there and listen. I am telling you." The tone of President Hopkins' address was strikingly dissimilar to this. It was not the tone of one who has found. It was the tone of one who is seeking. It was not the tone of one who already knows. It was the tone of one who is still learning, and willing and eager to learn.

"The first necessity, if we are to receive sight," he said at one point, "Is that we shall recognize our blindness. Then it is necessary for us to recognize that these great revelations do not come suddenly: we do not receive intellectual sight and correct impressions of things on the first instant."

Again, he speaks of our need to be patient with those who are learning, and also not to fall into the way of thinking that this process is complete either in ourselves or others.

An ancient book of the East puts it thus: "Fix your eyes on the light and it will grow."

The growth which Dartmouth College has of late been making in the things of life which make for finer living, and in its power of enkindling young minds and young lives, is no mystery if the place is permeated, as it appears to be, with such a spirit.