Letters

William & Mary

To THE EDITOR: It might be well for those who book the Dartmouth football schedule to reflect on the general effect on the College of these so-called "breathers" which result in spectacular upsets of the Big Green football team. Franklin and Marshall, William and Mary, Allegany, Muhlenburg, etc. are fine schools and it would be unfair to discredit them in any way. If they can defeat us in football we should take it in a sporting manner. To the undergraduates and alumni, when these games are played, it becomes a case of "nothing to gain—everything to lose." Possibly, though not necessarily, the team feels the same way. This is no reflection on the opponent whose playing, as in the case of William and Mary, earned a clear cut victory. But keen, traditional rivalry is not present.

Perhaps it would be ideal if Dartmouth, like most of her sister institutions with whom she competes in sports, would engage in a football schedule composed exclusively from start to finish of teams of that group. An intersectional post-season game with schools like Stanford or Georgia may be justified on the grounds that it enables distant alumni to see their team in action.

Very likely this is impossible if we are to engage in home games which the undergraduate body has every reason to expect. If teams of Dartmouth's classification will not participate, as will Cornell, in a home and home arrangement possibly we are forced to seek some other more distant school approximating as closely as possible Dartmouth's size and standards, and similarly located in a small town. But, if so, let's make the arrangement more or less permanent in order to develop a rivalry and a chance at "law of averages."

Here's one vote that we fill our schedule with traditional opponents all of whom we can "point" for and a victory over any one of whom can bring satisfaction to team, students, and alumni. The players will doubtless welcome it, the record will probably justify it, and our general athletic program, benefiting from improved football gate receipts can be further developed in order to permit a maximum participation in sports by members of the undergraduate body. Auburndale, Mass.

Prairie State Grads

DEAR SIR: I am enclosing photographs of the Dartmouth men who graduated from the class on the U. S. S. Prairie State on the 16th of September. Dartmouth had one of the biggest college representations there and all those who started completed their courses satisfactorily.

Ed Stafford '42 was the Regimental Adjutant and has been assigned to the school for the next class as an officer in the Drill Department of which Lt. Commander George Currier '17 is also a member.

The men in the pictures are as follows: first row, left to right, Clarence B. Higgins '41, Dean W. Carlton '41, Swift C. Barnes Jr. '42, Robert L. Simmons '41, Lt. Com. George Cur- rier '17, Edward P. Stafford '42, John Everett '41, Daniel F. Seacord Jr. '42, Nathaniel H. Sherman '42, Edwin B. Leslie '42. Second row: Frank Malavasic Jr. '42, Bynum E. Hinton Jr. '42, Henry Gunst '41, George F. Murphy Jr. '41, William C. Billins '41, Harry S. Howard Jr. '40, W. Donald Brown '41, George A. Taylor '41, Richard P. Howard '41.

I hope this will be of interest to the College and all Dartmouth in helping them keep up with graduates' doings in such changing times and conditions and that a place in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE can be found for one of these pictures.

Best of luck to Dartmouth for a grand year.

U. S. Navy.