Congratulations to Dartmouth

The Manchester Union carried the following editorial when the Sanborn gift was announced: One of the Webster kin has given his alma mater in one donation more than any American college possessed when Daniel Webster said of his alma mater: "It is a small college, but there are those who love her."

The lovers of Dartmouth are many now, and the admirers are legion. What American college has such a pronounced individuality as Dartmouth, that is so $14i generis? What a lot of things there are that are distinctively "Dartmouth. " Physically, intellectually, spiritually, Dartmouth stands by itself.

Some of this distinctiveness it never can lose, for nature gave it. Some of its distinctiveness is the northern mountains and the northern winds, facts of meteorology, geography, geology, no more to be changed, to be diverted, than the Connecticut deep-flowing past the terraces of Hanover.

Sanborn and Webster, great names in the great history of a great old college. Part of this money is to be devoted to the fostering and perpetuating of the spirit of the Sanborns and Websters, to keeping alive the old New England college tradition that was the Socratic ideal. The same spirit, whether the stoaie of marble Greece, or the study of an austere white painted wooden house in New England, the same spirit whether the academe be an olive grove of Attica or a pine grove of New Hampshire.

The gift of Edwin. Webster Sanborn is a great one financially, but the gift of the Sanborn and Webster traditions, the Sanborn and Webster spirit that this money ensures, is still greater.The Manchester Union.

Edwin W. Sanborn '78