Letters to the Editor
CAPTURED AT LAST
Dear Sir: I remember that an imposter was representing himself as a son of or a friend of various Dartmouth alumni as well as various M.I.T. alumni. This man, I believe, has been apprehended. The Montreal police are holding one Clarence R. Emedy and I am advised by the headquarters of the Sigma Chi Fraternity that the man they are holding is the same one we have been trying to get out of circulation. J. RHYNE KILLIAN, Jr.
DESECRATING THE STEIN SONG
Dear Sir: Next to your own one of the most interesting intimate magazines that comes to me is "The Month at Goodspeed's," published by Goodspeed's Book Shop here in Boston, and edited by Norman L. Dodge.
As a gentleman and a scholar you really ought to be on the Goodspeed mailing list, but as the Editor of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE you may find more specific use for these two pages numbered 44 and 45 from the October issue, in which Editor Dodge reveals a first edition of Hovey's "More Songs from Vagabondia" and takes a friendly fling at one of our intercollegiate neighbors.
Can it be that the college where they have long sung "Drink her down" so heartily is now trying to take the stein out of the Stein Song?
TUT! TUT!
Not long ago we heard a story which, because it reflects discredit upon the institution concerned, we shall tell without giving it locality. Besides the story may not be true. A group of undergraduates were met in one of the clubs or fraternities of this institution of learning, we might add, to avoid a natural misunderstanding. The boys were singing songs. And this is the way they sang the refrain of one of them
With a Steinway -piano,And a good song ringing clear! Incredible, isn't it? But it reveals the vandalism of which fanatics of a sort may be guilty. Nothing is sacred to them. The destruction of pagan manuscripts in Alexandria would have been a circus for such fellows. As we said, we shan't name the institution but let the Indian remember this wrong when he leaves his granite hills this fall to meet once more the enemy dog he has never beaten.
Just to take the Steinway taste away, we are going to quote the last verse of Richard Hovey's Stein Song by way of greeting to Dartmouth. We're sorry we can't give the music, also, in honor of M. I. T. Of course Dartmouth and Tech men know all the stanzas of A Stein Song, but perhaps quotation here will help to carry the good word to Harvard and other pagan communities.
"For we know the world is glorious,And the goal a golden thing,And that God is not censoriousWhen his children have their fling;And life slips its tetherWhen the boys get together,With a stein on the table in the fellowship ofSpring."
