HARVARD ALUMNI BULLETIN LIKES DARTMOUTH HOSPITALITY

An editorial in a recent issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin commenting upon Dartmouth's treatment of visiting athletic teams is reprinted here as of obvious interest to Dartmouth alumni and all of those interested in the spirit in which the College endeavors to carry out its athletic program :

Recently the Harvard basketball team played Dartmouth at Hanover. The members returned to Cambridge with glowing accounts of the hospitality of their hosts. From the time the Harvard players arrived at White River Junction to the time their train pulled out for

Boston, Dartmouth men did everything to give the visitors a pleasant week-end, with the exception of the game itself, which Dartmouth took the liberty of winning. Other teams that visit Dartmouth spread the same favorable tidings of hospitality at Hanover. It is needless to say that this does not injure Dartmouth's reputation among the schools and colleges.

In the case of Harvard's relations with its visiting teams, the spirit is here, but the organization has always been more or less ineffective. We have naturally wanted to make the visits of our rivals as pleasant as possible, but we have never done much about it. Visiting teams usually stay at a Boston hotel recommended by our managers, and their knowledge of Harvard is frequently limited to a brief encounter on the playing field, and a glimpse of the glass flowers in the University Muesum. Perhaps the latter elevating experience accounts for the long prevalent fallacy that Harvard men are cold and unbending.

When a visiting team arrives at White River Junction it is met by several members of a special honor society, the "Green Key." This society amounts to more than the typical "entertainment ommittee." Dartmouth men consider it an honor to belong to the "Green Key." Its members are recruited from the best men of the three upper classes. They take considerable trouble to arrange that all visiting teams not only see the buildings, but have an opportunity to take part in the social life of the college. Judging from the reports received from the members of our basketball team, this is not limited to terse, leading remarks about the beauty of the rural scene.

Visiting teams at Dartmouth are not boarded at a hotel, or put in odd rooms about the campus. Dartmouth turns over to them the new Davis Field House, which was specially built for the purpose. This excellent plan does everything possible to remove that dismal feeling, which the members of a visiting athletic team usually have, and generally show, of being a herd of strange, gentle sheep in a land of ravening wolves.

Perhaps the teams which visit Harvard would prefer one night in a real metropolitan hotel to a night in a quiet place like the Davis Field House. Perhaps they prefer to enjoy to the fullest the excitement of life in a great city—the bright lights, the taxi horns, the street cars. But we doubt it.

College men have devoted much attention lately to the consideration of hard feelings on the gridiron. No one at Harvard seems to have bothered much about the feelings of visiting teams which hardened between the time they stepped off the train and the time the opening whistle blew.

One of the greatest kindnesses a generous

graduate could do for the spirit of amateur sport at Harvard would be to provide comfortable quarters for our athletic guests.