NO CHANGE OF NAME!

Dartmouth congratulates Wesleyan, a sister college in the New England group, on refusing to abandon her fair name of such reputable longstanding.

"The name 'Wesleyan' is a distinguished one, honoring a great man. If the name were individual (designating an individual college and one alone), consideration of a change in name at Middletown would hardly have occurred. Under existing circumstances, the Committee recognizes several reasonable arguments for a change in name. It feels that the honor of having founded this institution belongs wholly to the Methodist Episcopal Church in America and that this fact should be appropriately and publicly recorded. It recognizes the desirability of securing a name as near as may be, individual in character—not to be confused in any way with that of other similar institutions. At the present time there are many institutions which include the word 'Wesleyan' in their titles; this leads to confusion with the frequently unfortunate result that we are referred to as 'Connecticut Wesleyan.' The Committee feels that the word 'College' as at present defined would better suit our case than the term 'University.'

"No name with sufficient reason or appeal has been suggested to warrant recommendation of its adoption at this time.

"This Committee would recommend, keeping the above in mind, that no change in name be advocated until more clearly justified."

Wesleyan University Alumnus

WESTEYAN

"Old names, fortunately, have friends to resist the innovators. A committee of the Wesleyan University trustees finds no good reason for changing a college name borne honorably for nearly a hundred years. The trustees confirm the sentiment of the undergraduates, who voted five to one for Wesleyan against any of the substitutes proposed.

"There are many Wesleyans with local qualifying descriptions, but the college at Middletown, Conn., is the original Wesleyan; it is the Wesleyan, the first of the clan. Any number of younger relatives can only emphasize that distinction. In this part of the country the name Weselyan has no more ambiguity than Amherst, Williams, Brown, Dartmouth or Bowdoin, and it, is estimable in tradition as are those. The old name should go on with the college that has worn it so well."

Editor in The New York Herald-Tribune