AMERICAN ALUMNI COUNCIL MEETS AT MINNEAPOLIS

The Fifteenth Annual Conference of the American Alumni Council was held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, on May third, fourth and fifth, Dartmouth being represented by Robert C. Strong '24, Executive Assistant to the President. The American Alumni Council is composed of alumni secretaries, editors of alumni magazines, and alumni fund secretaries, representing more than one hundred colleges and universities and it meets each year for the purpose of discussing problems of common interest to all alumni offices.

The program of the Minneapolis meetings laid particular emphasis on the desirable relationship between the college and its alumni. Lotus D. Coffman, President of the University of Minnesota, in a paper on this subject urged a greater degree of cooperation on the part of both the colleges and the alumni in developing methods of adult education such as are now being instituted at the University of Michigan. The sentiment which dominated the meetings was that the time is now right for making the colleges and universities helpful to their alumni and of continuing the educational process after graduation by means of extension courses and other methods of furnishing educational opportunities.

As part of the program time was devoted to the consideration of the method of operation of the Dartmouth Alumni Fund which is unique among alumni funds in that it secures contributions from a larger percentage of alumni than any other fund and conducts its annual campaign at a lower percentage basis of cost than any other fund now operating.

The Dartmouth Selective Process of Admission was discussed at one of the meetings of the Conference and particular emphasis waslaid on the relationship of the Alumni Council and individual alumni to the work of the Admissions office. This was enthusiastically approved by the alumni secretaries as one of the most desirable means of keeping the alumni, informed of the policies of the college and of making the college a continuing factor in their lives.

In an anonymous and frank discussion of alumni magazines bouquets were showered upon the Dartmouth ALUMNI MAGAZINE for its excellent class notes section, for its sterlingeditorials, and for its profuse illustrations. The critic suggested that a change to a larger size and a livelier cover would add about all that one could desire in an alumni monthly.