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Jack Norris writes from Rochester, N. Y. —"Outgoing letters so far have been discouragingly unproductive. For the local delegation of '25ers nothing of note. Harry Crawford has recently returned from a convention trip to Memphis.".... What in the world is the matter with the '25ers in upstate New York? Generally speaking they won't give news of themselves, won't pay their class dues, and don't seem interested in the Alumni Fund. Yet some of the most active undergraduate men are in that group, and they live in one of the grandest sections of the entire country. The Secretary would certainly like to know the answer! Ed Burns and Paul Reber save the situation from being desperate by writing to Jack. Ed writes, "We live in Alton and we certainly hope that we shall have the pleasure of entertaining anyone in the class that might happen this way." Frances and Ed have three lovely children, two girls, Betty aged 10, Ann aged 8, and Edward Jr., aged 2½, who they expect will be ready for the Dartmouth class of 1958. Paul, who is in charge of biology at the Alfred University Extension Center in Dunkirk, N. Y., writes:—"l received your letter the other day and was interested in hearing from a Dartmouth man. It would seem to me that our Dartmouth clubs through this section are falling asleep. I never hear of any get-togethers and never see anything in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE about their having any. I'd like to see a little activity around this section. I most certainly would like to make the Fifteenth, but it certainly comes at a bad time for school teachers, especially in New York state, but we will see when the time comes. There isn't much news of interest to the class. I'm still holding the same job down. I completed my Master's degree in School Administration last June, and by this June I'll be more than 2/3 finished with an M. S. in Math. The family still stands at one all, one for Dartmouth '59 and the girl, 12 years old, thinks maybe Dartmouth will be Co-Ed before she graduates from H. S."
From New York:- Paul Reed has moved back to New York from Chicago and is connected with Andrew Geiger, Inc., doing advertising work in the trade paper field. Frank Kennedy is with C. }. Devine & Co.. 48 Wall St. Don Kilby is still with Frigidaire, and reports that Mrs. Kilby is proprietor of a well-staffed knitting shop from Boston-The Jock Braces have recently returned from a holiday at Pinehurst, the Frank Wallises have recently moved to Frank's old family homestead on Beverly Cove, which looks right out over the Atlantic. .... From New Hampshireand Maine-Frank and Marge Hershey were in Hanover for Carnival. Frank, who is vice president of the Marine Midland in Buffalo, has two boys, the oldest being eleven. Clint Martin was in Hanover in March-the first time back in over ten years. Clint has developed his old college hobby of photography into a commercial photographic business with offices in New York City. He makes his home in Verona, N. J., with his wife, young son, and younger daughter. According to Clint, Dub Lindsley is located in Dallas, Texas, where he is associated with his father in the real estate business From Chicago—The Milt Harts recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary. Stan Smith, Whit Campbell and Tiger Lyons have been doing some preliminary planning for this year's '25 outing at Stan's estate in Delevan, Wis. Tiger Lyons is doing double duty—practicing law in Chicago as well as in his home town of Waukegan. Neil Williams had a bad shake-up after being thrown from a toboggan during a week-end house party in Wisconsin, but is fully recovered. George Joslyn had an extended trip into California. Drennan Slater practices law in Chicago and serves in the House of Representatives at Springfield.
Last year we threatened to give you some statistics on the size of American colleges and universities. To correct the notion that ours is a small college, we give you the article and a list containing the 164 largest colleges and universities in the country. To complete this list, 342 names of colleges with enrollments below 1,000 would have to be added. In addition there are 68 teachers' colleges—all below Dartmouth in size. Space forbids the listing of these 410 additional institutions. But we can visualize the length of the list if they were added to the 164. We might as well face the fact that Dartmouth is not small, is not even medium-sized—but that it is large and vital and influential—and it's the business of all alumni to realize it and to see that it gets the aid it so deservedly asks.
IT'S A SMALL COLLEGE—OR IS IT?
Every year Dartmouth applicants give as one of their chief reasons for choosing Dartmouth—"lt's a small college"; Dartmouth undergraduates used to explain the losses of ill-fated athletic teams with "It's a small college"; and Dartmouth alumni the world over explain their devotion by quoting Daniel Webster—"lt's a small college, but there are those that love it."
Well, if we want to compare it with all the institutions of higher learning in the United States—the large state and municipal universities with their women students sometimes outnumbering men, and with their graduate schools numbering up to more than a dozen and usually comprising enrollments two to four times the undergraduate enrollment—then perhaps Dartmouth might be considered small, but that, too, is doubtful.
After all, when the majority of people speak of "going to college," they think of the regular four-year course in the liberal arts. And a Dartmouth or a Stanford man doesn't become a Harvard or Michigan or Columbia man because he gets his M. A., or Ph. D. or M. D. or LL. D. at one of the latter institutions. The only way to get a true picture of the size of Dartmouth is to compare it—first with all other institutions for men only, and second to break down the great universities into undergraduate and graduate divisions; men and women students, and college (liberal arts) men.
Dr. Raymond Walters, president of the University of Cincinnati, annually prepares the "Statistics of Registration in American Universities and Colleges." His record for 1938 appeared in School and Society, December 17, 1938, and all figures which follow are taken from that record. Dr. Walters also annually makes a special survey of about thirty institutions—breaking down their total full-time enrollments into College Men, College Women, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Agriculture, Art, Commerce, 'Education, Graduate, etc. Consequently, we are able to give in the second column of Table II the number of college men in some of the universities of large size. Enough are available to prove very conclusively that Dartmouth, as far as the four years of regular college liberal arts courses are concerned, is not only not even medium-sized, but right up among the top dozen or so universities.
This article is not written to seek to place Dartmouth in size among the great universities. Its place (along with a few others) is unique, in that although it has a very large enrollment of undergraduate men students, it has only three small affiliated schools. It remains now, as it has ever been, a true liberal arts college. But it is rather silly to speak of it as a small college when it is:—
1. The ninth largest of all the institutions for men only.
2. Larger than the state universities or state colleges of-17 different states.
3. Larger than 87 institutions each of which has over 1000 full-time students.
4. From two to twenty-five limes the size ofan additional 342 institutions whose full-time enrollments fall below 1000 students.
5. Larger than any of the additional 68 institutions which make up the rest of the institutions of higher learning in America and which fall under the classification of "Teachers' Colleges."
6. Larger in "college men" than the big majority of the 76 universities and colleges whose full time enrollment surpasses that of Dartmouth.
So, in order that you may better appreciate the place of Dartmouth in the national picture, the figures are on page 61.
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