GRADUS AD PARNASSUM
NEWSPAPERS are out of date before their ink is dry. Six o'clock broadcasts are old stuff by the time Elmer Davis reports; Raymond Gram Swing has more to say an hour later. Weeklies can only attempt to review history-making events. In the face of the public appetite for flash news a monthly magazine, such as this one, must seem about as newsy as a Sears Roebuck catalog. However, we are going ahead on the basis that you don't mind if our contents of articles, news and pictures do not directly compete with dispatches from Berlin and London.
TN REGARD TO THE WAR it is OUT policy this A year to avoid turning the ALUMNI MAGAZINE into a journal of war news and comment. International events of the gravest importance are constantly on the minds of all of us. Newspapers, radio, magazines, movies—every means of communicationreport the news and comment on it. Hanover, New Hampshire, is just as much a willing subject to this barrage as any other dot on the map.
But there is one thing about our publication to keep in mind. It does have something to say—news and comment to report, articles to be published, many pictures to be printed, voluminous notes about aumni—on other subjects than the war. An educational institution up in these hills has a job to do for some 2400 youth of the country. It is going to stick to its last and do the job.
But the war vitally affects all of us and our future. It affects the College and its uture. There is power and strength for great achievement in the alumni body of 20,000 educated men. Therefore the editors will use space in these columns as may be desirable to (1) further the strengthening of national defense; (2) relay news to alumni of the work of the American Defense Dartmouth Group; (3) report activities and views of President Hopkins; (4) report the attitudes and activities of undergraduates; and otherwise keep readers in touch with important war developments in Hanover or among alumni outside of Hanover.
These things listed above can be covered and still permit your ALUMNI MAGAZINE to remain essentially a monthly chronicle of Dartmouth life and continue as something of a beacon for the objectives of the liberal college.
