Letters
To Paul Sample '20
Home from the golden West he came, To paint the Vermont hills, His brush not cleaned of the yellow green, That western sun instills.
But vain he sought, And vain he taught His brush to find the Green, That welcomes snow, And the sun-warmed glow That lights the summer scene.
And then, October, frost-eyed, spoke Her wanton, scornful, lines; And maples flamed, And red-oaks shamed The dark and somber pines.
Now quick his brush to canvas leaped, The long-sought Green came true; 'Twas wood-smoke haze And bird-breast grays, O'erlaid with friendly blue.
No sickly-saffron-yellow gilt Now chafes the Vermont scene, But her hills acclaim Her birth-right name, Her rugged, true-blue Green.
Los Angeles.
Early Expenses
To THE EDITOR: The contrast between the expenses o£ a Dartmouth student of today, and over seventy years ago, may be understood by an examination of the accounts of one of the Chandler Scientific Department's boys in the late sixties.
This boy's home was less than 50 miles from Hanover. His parents were moderately prosperous, but to give him the education they wished involved considerable sacrifice. How well he cooperated with them may be noted by a brief survey of the accounts he kept very scrupulously, during most of the four years of his course.
It is reasonably correct, from these accounts, to sum up the costs of his four years, as $1454.32.
His record gives the costs of his first three years as follows: 1867 $ 37148 1868 ■•s 328.29 1869 .$ 391-00 Cost of the first three years $1090.71
When he graduated in the class of '7O, he did not report the cost of his last year, but by striking the average for the three first years, gives $363.55, as its cost. This added to 551090.71 (cost of the first three years) would bring the total of his education at Dartmouth to $1454.32.
To illustrate this boy's meticulous care in recording all the items of expense it may be interesting to record one month, September, iB6B, so chosen because it includes the cost of tuition and board: "On hand .$34.00 Fare -.$ 1.60 Honey S 1.25 Suspenders 60 Socks 40 Studs 35 Burner 60 Six Collars $ 1.00 Table Cover $ 1.45 Tacks 05 Stamps $ 1.00 Crystal 25 Tuition $16.00 Advance Board $lO.OO $34.50 Every merest item for the months was care- fully entered. It seems from the accounts that the tuition cost $16.00 for each quarter.
It is interesting to note that in later life this alumnus was uncommonly successful. When he died several years ago, he left a fortune in excess of a million dollars. He had passed his life for the most part in Peru, where beginning as a civil engineer, in the construction of the highest railroad in the world, high in the Andes mountains, he developed several successful manufacturing industries.
His family of three children inherited his wealth,—and if the race should ever run out (a very improbable event) his will named Dartmouth as his residuary legatee.
Bath, X. H.
