BOSTON "POTLATCH" GETS EDITORIAL COMMENT

The "Potlatch" on February 4 in the Copley Plaza, at which the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Boston was host, was one 0f the most successful get-togethers ever held and attracted wide comment. A full account of the dinner will be found in the stories of association meetings on another pag.e. The following editorial, which appeared in an issue of the Boston Herald a few days later, speaks for itself:

Dartmouth's Great Dinner

"While a superlative is necessarily dangerous, one would not be running a great risk —judging from the testimony of those who were present—in saying that the dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association at the Copley Plaza, on Wednesday evening, was the greatest in its history.

"Judge Nelson P. Brown had conceived the occasion as a gathering of Indian tribes, and worked out his introductory speeches, the hall's decorations, the music, etc., on that basis with rare ingenuity and cleverness. Mr. Lewis Parkhurst, as chairman of the board of trustees, made an exceedingly interesting presentation of the financial and material side of the college, including an invitation to the alumni to forward suggestions for the disposal of the wooden statue of Daniel Webster, which long stood on a lawn in Hingham and recently bequeathed to the college, is now reposing in the basement of its administration building. The story of the college's profits from the lumberlands of the north, carried a touch of romance. To run the college costs $1,000,000, a year. The students pay half of it. The alumni regularly contribute $90,000 a year. Endowments must finance the rest.

"Prof. Fred L. Pattee, of Penn. State College, was wonderfully amusing. His pictures of the old times and the old ways, touched many a responsive chord. President Hopkins' own speech, a serious discussion of the academic and cultural purposes of education, proved an exceptional treat. He showed that the number of living alumni of all Colleges in America today is only slightly in excess of the number of students now in corresponding institutions. The figures stand at 900,000 for one, and 700,000 for the other, evidence of the growth of education in America, and the zeal of our people in its pursuit.

"Altogether it was an exceptional occasion, and one that set a standard upon which it will be difficult to improve."