"A BUILDER OF A DREAM DARTMOUTH"

"The President is back in Hanover again, for a brief respite between the eastern trip he has just concluded, and his annual California pilgrimage to the western alumni. A: few days will have to suffice for a general overhauling of the academic machine, packing his grip and glancing hastily through his mail.

"On his last trip he spoke to some 1500 Dartmouth men at dinner and meetings. And all of his speeches served as magnets drawing the Green alumni from nearby countryside. Pittsburgh served as the rallying point for Western Pennsylvania; Boston as an octopus whose tentacles went far beyond the mere suburbs.

"Undergraduates whose lives are absorbed in the living of college can rarely sympathize with the urge which drives alumni together on every excusable occasion. They are as yet ignorant of the Hanover and Dartmouth that lives in the minds of the alumni; the lazy, sunlit campus of spring, the crisp crunch of hard snow on a white-blue winter day, the mellow haze of good fellowship. The present students, wise, sure and sophisticated, are a bit puzzled by the willingness of an alumni body to contribute towards an annual fund that totals well over one hundred thousand dollars. Yet without this ever-recurring longing that Dartmouth invariably instills, the yearly college deficits would change the neat colonial buildings into empty brick ghosts.

"To the alumni body President Hopkins is the link between their era and the Dartmouth of today, with its strange customs and prodigious growth. For them he paints the College of the future, in its material, academic and extra-curricular aspects. Through their generous aid the first American educational Utopia is gradually emerging from the twisted skein of modern teaching procedure. "As the man who makes a growing and better Dartmouth possible, President Hopkins has achieved a national reputation. Yet we sometimes wish that the duties of the executive office would allow him to become more of a part of campus life."

The Dartmouth