Harry Wellman

A NY QUESTION OF CHANGE in the College, for possible improvement, is one that has always interested Harry Wellman of whose varied and distinctive career Professor John Hurd '21 writes in this issue. In his suggestion, made some four years ago, that Dartmouth should be divided into lowerclass and upperclass groups for both living and teaching purposes, Professor Wellman recognized the problem of a College grown enough larger to have lost the intimacy and wholeness of earlier days. There are practical financial difficulties that bulk so large in discussing the Wellman plan, which Mr. Hurd describes in the biographical sketch, that one is forced to the conclusion of following the present form of the College no matter how promising his proposals for an entirely original "house plan" may seem.

Harry Wellman is a vital force in Dartmouth life. It would be interesting to know just how many men owe their first opportunities and decisions in planning a business or professional career to Mr. Wellman. But who these men are and how many never will be known because Harry's noble work as teacher and counselor to a host of College and Tuck School students is his secret. Enough to say that Harry Wellman—human, keen, friendly, candid in criticism, genuine in praise, throughout life much more than a professor—can recall and enjoy a career whose strong threads are colorfully woven into the whole fabric of Dartmouth College.