LIKES "BIG GREEN"

135 W. Ashley St., Jacksonville, Fla.

Editors Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:

I have just returned from a three month's vacation, and find both June and August numbers waiting me, but I do not find any notice of expiration of subscription, and am much obliged for your card reminding me of it, and enclose my check

I notice in June number criticism as to the expression "Big Green"!

What is there about it that grates on the nerves of our aesthetic Brother?

Is it the "Big"? Well, Dartmouth is Big, and always has been in every way, and every son of Dartmouth should glory in it!

Is it the "Green"? That color has been too often and well distinguished, ever since its selection and adoption, to be belittled now!

And, as a matter of sentiment, I, an oldtimer, who remembers when the Committee reported it for approval in the old Chapel, and recall the men who then adopted it, I feel as firmly bound to it as the Irishman to the Shamrock!

E. O. LOCKE, one-sixth of Class of 1870.

WHERE IS OCCOM BURIED?

Dear Editor:— Your Assistant Librarian, Mr. Harold G. Rugg, suggests that you have been interested in locating the exact grave of Samson Occom.

My boyhood home was in central New York. Since I was a boy, I have been interested in the Brothertown Indians.

I would be pleased if you could give me the county and town of New York State in which you believe Samson Occom was buried.

LIFE IS WORTHWHILE

Rochester, N. H.

Dear Sirs:— In hastening to send in my subscription for another year, I want to express my appreciation for the wonderful job the editors have done and are doing in getting out this magazine. I look forward to it with the greatest eagerness and drop everything for a time when it comes. I really believe that this magazine has done more than any other one thing to arouse and maintain the alumni interest in the college, arid that means, I think, the very life of the college. It must take a great amount of time, but nothing done by any living alumnus for Dartmouth means more.

The new form is all right and the old-time pictures have been a most fascinating feature of late.

Sincerely yours,

THEY PRINTED THE FIRST DAILY DARTMOUTH

My dear Clark: I notice in the Alumni Fund Magazine there have been printed a considerable number of old group pictures. I came across one the other day of five of my classmates, at Commencement time in 1881. We decided to publish a Daily Dartmouth. I believe that was the first time it had ever been done. How successful our venture was, you may judge from the fact that we cleared $3O apiece for four days, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and I needed the money.

I am sending you the photograph, which you are at liberty to use, if you see fit. The two men standing are William E. Strong and Charles W. McClearn. The two sitting in chairs are myself and Henry R. Foster. The one on the floor is Joseph G. Chanler—all of the Class of 'B2.

Very truly yours,

THE CHAPEL ON THE HILL

The Editor of the Alumni Magazine:—

Some months ago I read with interest a statement in your editorial comment, "Unsuspected Virtues," (April, 1929), suggesting the possibility of a new chapel for the college.

The Observatory hill provides an ideal location for exactly what Dr. Hopkins has sometimes suggested. Springing from the Hanover plain, it lends itself readily to the building up of a magnificent Gothic edifice which would easily be the focal point of our country side.

I am apprehensive, however, as to the appropriateness in Hanover of Gothic architecture. It seems to me that a chapel in that style, even though removed from the campus, would be an anomaly, as much out of harmony with the rest of the physical structure of the college as is Rollins Chapel.

Although not an architect and, consequently, with no authority, it appears to me that a Georgian colonial church, adapted from the style of Sir Christopher Wren, well proportioned and chastely decorated, but without the austerity of many New England meeting houses, would be more indigenous and distinctive.

So situated as to be easily accessible, such an edifice in itself could be as inspiring to the callous soul as the magnificent new building at Princeton.

"AIN'T IT A GRAND AND—"

American University of Beirut,Beirut, Syria

The Editor, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:—

I am attaching to this letter two (2) American dollars which I have been saving for some time for the express purpose of sending them to you in payment for a year's subscription to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE for 1929-1930.

The arrival of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE each month this year has been very welcome, for the MAGAZINE has been a fine one both in form and content. It has made Dartmouth seem much closer than six or seven thousand miles away.

There are four Dartmouth men here at the University, A. A. Bacon, '97, J. A. Brown, 'O2, L. W. Leavitt, 'l6, and myself. I understand that W. B. Dickerman, '2B, is to join the Staff next fall.

I am looking forward to more good numbers of the MAGAZINE next year.

Yours truly, K. MALCOLM BEAL, A.8., 1928

A GOOD SUGGESTION

September 26, 1929

The Editor:— I have never been able to understand why so many alumni lose interest in their Alma Mater. As I continued to feel so keenly the enthusiasm of undergraduate days, I could not comprehend why the majority of the alumni seemed to forget all their obligations and old connections, never even answering the various letters of appeal that came to them from class, society or fraternity.

But a little incident last summer has rather opened my eyes and has given me a new light on the subject. During August, I took my brother-in-law to Hanover, where he plans to go in another year. His principal interest was in the gymnasium and athletic plant, as mine had been sixteen years ago, so we went there first. The building was locked up, and a workman told me a guide from the office would have to show us around. As it was then too late for that, I called at the office the next morning, thinking that I could get a key, but was rather surprised to find that a guide would have to accompany me, though at that moment he was busy. Not to go into all the details, five hours later we did get hold of the guide, went to the gymnasium, listened to a lecture on the college, saw nothing of the trophy room, shower or locker rooms, went away. Having spent at least two hours a day for four years in that gymnasium, the feeling that it sort of belonged to me was rather a natural one—and this sudden disillusionment was quite a blow.

That brings me to the point—l had gone back to Hanover with the feeling that I was going home, and also with a feeling of pride in showing my old haunts to the family, only to find that I was a stranger without privileges, and that the college recognized me as an individual not at all, in short, that my status was exactly the same as any tourist passing through Hanover.

Not that I expected a band to meet me, and I thoroughly understand that the college property cannot be opened to the public or even to the alumni indiscriminately, but nevertheless, the contrast is too striking between the picture that is painted for us as alumni, as members of the Dartmouth family, and the actual picture as represented above. I have to admit that much of my enthusiasm has been dampened, and as this experience must have occurred to hundreds of others, with a reaction similar to mine, it seems to me that some consideration of the matter would not be entirely out of order.

Why not have the visiting alumni register and then give them a card which would admit them to one or all buildings? Even charge them a small fee, if necessary, but at least recognize their identity and their rights, if they have any. Certainly, if the boys are made to feel good when they go "home," you will strengthen the family ties, with a resultant loosening of the purse strings and improved alumni support all along the line.

FIRST DAILY DARTMOUTH STAFF

EXERCISES AT THE OLD PINE IN 1892