Letters to the Editor
Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine;Tonight, listening to the Dartmouth Glea Club on the radio, I recalled the old photograph which I enclose. Those pictured are, I believe, No. 1, Hatch '85; No. 2, Manson '85; No. 3, O'Brien '85; No. 4, Goddard '85; No. 5, Parker '85; No. 6, Richard Hovey '85. I do not recall definitely the names of the others, although No. 7 may be Hatch instead of No. 1. I am sure someone of '85 will solve the riddle.
It gave me an immense pleasure to hear directly from Hanover to-night—thanks to the Columbia Broadcasting Co.—and so I determined to send this old picture, which is of many who came to Dartmouth from Bowdoin just at the time I entered college in the class of 1887.
The old house, dubbed "Saints Rest" was away down on Main St., and is, I believe, still extant. It was opposite old South Hall—the men, most of them very dear friends of mine then, and even now—more saintly now than then, in memory dear. SIDNEY ARTHUR, '87.
Editor Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:
Dear Sir:As much as I deplore the general attitude of communicated criticism of public editorials, I am unable to pass by your "Ne Sutor Ultra Crepidam" of the June issue without offering a word of protest. Belittlement of the value of the opinion of another is discourteous, if not treacherous technique, and leads to a tendency to "half-cock" editorializing.
Apparently no great effort was made to check up on the length of the radius over which Dr. William Mayo had wandered afield. To even a careful reader your editorial would be hardly informative as to the fact that you were discussing the opinion of a senior member of the Board of Regents of the University of Minnesota. Nor was there any inkling as to the fact that he has probably had considerable additional educational experience in shaping the policies of the Mayo Foundation which is a graduate school of the University of Minnesota.
As a man in a premiere position in American medicine his estimate of the "physical vigor of young people" may have standing. As one of the most active members of the Board of Regents of a large university he has probably overheard discussions concerning the physical requirements of college teaching and discussions as to plant management. Altogether apart from the merits of the question, you show a grossly negligent avoidance of fact when you evaluate the opinions of a man of this position by placing them in the same category as Henry Ford's non-automobile explosions.
Just one more thought—in your "wandering" you did not do the other field the honor of investigating its vocabulary. There is no such condition as "ophthalmic goitre"you meant exophthalmic goitre (a completely descriptive term),—that condition which is known in Eastern States parlance as primary hyperthyroidism. Sincerely yours,
THE GANG
