"Why, inadequate?

"Because the informed editorial responsibility, which we agree The Dartmouth. needs, can be achieved without sacrificing the other responsibility of The Dartmouth to be honest and vigorous in expressing a student view, only by continuous and intimate contact o£ its staff and particularly its policy formers with all currents of opinion of the various Dartmouth factions. That contact must be without subservience to any of these factions. Its free responsibility must be gained by the influence on sensible minds of balanced advice and the fair demands of interested parties.

"...The Dartmouth would be kept from saying anything dangerous at the price of saying nothing at all. Because, should his 'advice' and 'guidance' degenerate in a strained conflict into dictation, however moderate, the paper's staff would know that the transfer of ownership had become real, that the paper was not theirs, that responsibility had past from them to the Trustee; and the paper in turn would degenerate into a Booster's Bulletin.

"We recognize that this could only be a long-term, not an immediate, result of the proposal. We regard not our own skins, because we see plainly that they will not be touched. Rather, we are sentimental enough to regard a tradition, that of a journal which for seventy continuous years has spoken for itself."