Editor's Note

IN CONNECTION with the limited distribution of two publications sponsored by the Alumni Council, as the beginning of a movement for stimulating gifts to the College, the editors are reprinting this month a large portion of Professor Richardson's book: Dartmouth College: A Statement ofIts Objectives, Achievements, and Opportunities. The second of the two publications is a statement of the needs of the College. Both volumes are published by the Alumni Council and will be used by a corps of workers among the alumni as handbooks in the task of attempting to provide for some of the most pressing requirements of the College in respect to additions to endowment and the physical plant. As explained in the editorial section of this issue, Gradus Ad Parnassum, the Alumni Council's object is to set up a fund-raising organization with aspects of permanency that will work toward the goal of greater financial security for the College over a period of years. No concentrated campaign is planned for this year, nor is the solicitation of alumni for financial support contemplated through any other channel than the traditional Alumni Fund campaign in the spring.

Owing to lack of space it is not possible to reprint in its entirety Professor Richardson's analysis of the place of the liberal college in American education and the particular opportunities that exist at Dartmouth. Sections have necessarily been omitted dealing with student life: athletics, the Outing Club, the Players (and other student activities), moral and religious conditions, social life, fraternities, Palaeopitus, educational equipment, living and dining facilities, and a discussion of the place of the Associated Schools on the campus.

It is possible, however, to give ALUMNI MAGAZINE readers generous portions of Professor Richardson's excellent statement —about two-thirds of his small book is reprinted in the following pages.

The Gifts and Endowment Plan is being directed by William J. Minsch '07, alumni trustee of New York City, and Sidney C. Hayward '26, secretary of the Alumni Council. Regional committees are being formed throughout the country to assist in the movement, although the effort will not be a concentrated one but will rather proceed quietly and on a rather informal basis.