THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Opening the Campaign March 9

DEAR MR. LEGGETT: As you and the class agents begin your careful planning in the interest of the Dartmouth alumni Fund, I want to give testimony of how indispensable is the service you all render. It is a vital factor in the determination of college policies.

There is no phase of alumni relationship to the College which interests me so greatly as does this Fund. Despite individual exceptions, in the large the list of contributors affords the best available catalog of those who find satisfaction in some measure of self-sacrifice for adding to Dartmouth's strength—as compared with the lesser number who seemingly take pride in their Dartmouth relationship but assume no responsibility for adding to the prestige of the College.

I know of no form of human activity wherein live and vital perpetuity is given to altruism to the degree that it is given in support of the College. A great western university issued a description of its accomplishments recently under the caption, "Results That Keep On Counting,"—a true characterization!

It is an interesting speculation* to query just how much realization the Earl of Dartmouth could have had of the cumulative effect of his initial subscription of fifty pounds to a remote Indian School. Or again, how much could the friendly neighbor in Orford, John B. Wheeler, have foreseen of the nationwide security which he should win for institutions of higher learning in America when he offered his self-impoverishing gift of a thousand dollars, without which Dartmouth could not have carried its "Case" to the higher courts. So, likewise, in greater or less degree, of all gifts to the College.

If the full significance could be understood of what alumni support meansto Dartmouth at such a point as in the Alumni Fund, there would be no genuinely interested alumnus, except the occasional victim of misfortune, whose name would not be on the list of subscribers.

We need the financial support which the Fund affords. As our resources have been added to, our opportunities and obligations have increased in even greater proportion. But, even more, we need the interest and participation in the college enterprise of every alumnus of which a gift to the Fund is representative.

May the task which you and the agents have undertaken be made light by the willing and early response of every Dartmouth man!

I am Most appreciatively yours,

Mr. Frederic H. Leggett195 BroadwayNew York, N. Y

"Indispensable"