GRADUS AD PARNASSUM

Visitors from other colleges frequently inquire: "How do you explain the strength of relationships between Dartmouth men and the College? Why do 8 out of ten alumni contribute to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund? Where does your alumni magazine get its circulation of 14,000 copies per month? The Dartmouth alumni in Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Concord, San Francisco, Denver (name your own city) have frequent meetings and participate actively in the process of selecting your entering classes. What's the answer?"

If you want our answer, and it can be briefly given, it is one Ernest Martin Hopkins. Have you ever stopped to think that from the time of his graduation right up to this moment, and it is 40 years, his mind and heart have been filled with thoughts of improving this college? For the first ten years he worked with Dr. Tucker. In 1905 he founded the Secretaries Association which soon began its publication of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE. Innumerable other steps were taken many years ago by President Tucker and Mr. Hopkins to put life and vitality into alumni affairs.

As a private alumnus, during the interim between leaving Hanover in 1910 and returning as President in 1916, he and C. B. Little 'Bl and Fred A. Howland 'B7 and others founded the Alumni Council, which in turn established the Alumni Fund as we know it today, and took other steps of the greatest importance to relate Dartmouth men in later life closely to the College.

From the time of his inauguration he has always listened attentively to intelligent and thoughtful opinions of the alumni. The faculty and student body have been greatly strengthened during the period. President Hopkins' time and energy have been given with equal enthusiasm to the men, now numbering about 20,000, who carry Dartmouth to every part of the country.