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IN FAVOR OF"MEN OF DARTMOUTH"

Gentlemen: I have heard considerable of late in regard to the possibility of considering "Men of Dartmouth" as the official Dartmouth song instead of the old Dartmouth song.

I read your editorial on this subject with much interest and I am glad that you agree with President Hopkins that "Men of Dartmouth" is much more becoming to the College atmosphere than the old Dartmouth song. I think and sincerely believe that the vast majority of Dartmouth men would be in favor of "Men of Dartmouth" even though some of them, perhaps, may be reluctant to express their opinion because of their loyalty to this old song.

Yours very truly,

ON "AN UNSYMPATHETICAND SARCASTIC EDITORIAL"

To the Editor, DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE Hanover, N. H. Dear Sir:

It was with surprise and very keen disappointment that I read the unsympathetic and sarcastic editorial on "Undergraduate Wisdom," in the February ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

The editorial was evidently written by one who was not present at Milwaukee, or at least by one who failed to sense at all the real tone of the Conference. The straw votes and resolutions were but the usual safety valves, so commonly employed when men or women get together for serious discussion, whether they be Manufacturers' Associations or D.A.R.s, American Legionaires or undergraduates. They were quite incidental to the real purpose and spirit of the conference, which was as free of "cocky self-confidence" as could possibly be imajgined. The whole genius of that great student gathering is found in an earnest and honest effort to study the problems of modern life in the light of a genuinely Christian philosophy of living.

As one who attended the Conference, and who has been in constant touch with the large Wisconsin University delegation both before and after the Milwaukee meetings, I suggest that the spirit of that great company of young men and women may be summarized in two points: 1, a robust faith in the reality of spiritual values; and 2, a radiant determination to make all of life more perfect. One is inclined to wonder where the world would be today if there had not been a succession of daring young souls, from Joshua to Jesus, from Joan of Arc to Howard Walter, willing to venture boldly, intellectually and spiritually, as well as physically, for their visions of social evolution.

And it is a source of no little chagrin to feel that the ALUMNI MAGAZINE of Dartmouth College should put itself in a class with the Chicago Tribune, or even the Harvard Crimson, in misrepresenting and ridiculing the serious and significant endeavors of several thousand representative college students to articulate afresh the social and spiritual ideals which hold so much of promise for a busy and bewildered world.

Very truly yours,

The MAGAZINE notes the expression of disapproval, which sundry correspondents have forwarded, concerning its attitude toward student conferences at which various radical and pacifists resolutions were adopted—notably one early in the year at which several hundred young men and women highly resolved not to assist their own government, directly or indirectly, in any sort of war, while a still more numerous body reserved judgment and merely said they would wait and see whether or not future wars appealed to them as justifiable. The little respect expressed by this MAGAZINE for such was, as we recall it, rather mild by contrast with what various contemporaries had to say; but at least one critic intimates that our disapproval was ill calculated to serve our editorial mission, which we are told is to "keep the alumni of the College in touch with the young and eager life of the day."

We are not entirely sure that such is our mission, especially if by the young and eager life of the day is meant the small proportion of students who like to join radical clubs and trumpet the doctrines of the Third Internationals. We cannot undertake to keep alumni in touch with that sort of thing if it can be done only by pretending a genial and kindly approval of it.

We regret to' have seemed to our critics to have laid aside in this matter the garb of editorial kindliness and geniality, but a pretended tolerance toward the worse forms of youthful rebellion would be mere hypocrisy.

The Card Room in the New York Dartmouth Club