Help from Lawyers

To the Editor: In connection with securing the active assistance of alumni in Boston on the program for encouraging gifts to the College, that is being sponsored by the Alumni Council, the following comment was recently sent me by a prominent lawyer here:

"I succeeded in getting a client severalyears ago to put a legacy for the College inhis will, but frequently such legacies arechanged later in other wills, so that theonly thing one can do is keep after hisclients and friends with this thought inmind.

"With one or two exceptions Dartmouthhas not been as fortunate in receivinggifts as the other Eastern colleges. I hopethat as our alumni body enlarges and inmany instances becomes more prosperousthis situation may change and our necessary additional endowments obtained. Atleast we can all do our best to bring aboutthis result."

In this connection, I have always felt that if gradually a large number of Dartmouth men could be encouraged to make the College the residuary legatee in their wills, over a period of years a considerable sum might accrue to the College. Most men do not realize that no matter how carefully they draw a will, it is always possible that when they do die, they will leave no heirs, or the named beneficiary will have deceased and the estate revert to strangers. It is very simple to provide that in case all of the beneficiaries, or heirs, shall have died, then the estate shall revert to the trustees of Dartmouth College. I should never figure on wills of this kind in dollars and cents, but over a period of time, if enough of them are so drawn, there certainly would be some benefit to the College.

101 Milk Street,Boston, Massachusetts.

Correction

To the Editor: I am sure you would want me to call your attention to the fact that in the story in the current ALUMNI MAGAZINE occasioned by the recent death of Mr. Thomas Nelson Perkins, holder of a Dartmouth honorary degree, you were in error in stating that there are no children. Mr. Perkins is survived by three sons—Elliott, of Cambridge, Mass., James H., of Westwood, Mass., and Thomas Nelson Jr., of Westwood, Mass.

50 Federal St.,Boston, Mass.

Agrees with Humphrey

To the Editor: I agree with Humphrey '14 in his contention that an Orozco mural is not appropriate for Dartmouth, wonderful piece of art that it may be. Nor do Dartmouth men want ribald pictures all over the campus. Humphrey's sketches, while not the kind to install in the chapel for a freshman to show his mother, are a step in the right direction. Whether or not they develop into any elaborate murals I hope Humphrey's sketches appear in the MAGAZINE occasionally. They remind one of dear old Dartmouth and cause him to forget Wall St., C. I. 0., etc.

R. 1, Box 102,Escondido, Calif.