Letters

Marine Corps Aviation

To THE EDITOR: A limited number of outstanding specialists, non-flying, for active duty anywhere are required by Aviation, Marine Corps. They will be commissioned direct from civil life. Your cooperation is solicited, since we find it advisable to work through persons and agencies most likely to be in contact with personnel of suitable character and qualifications.

Those who desire to offer their services to Aviation, Marine Corps, should apply to the officer in charge of the nearest District Marine Recruiting Office, or direct to the Director of Aviation, Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps, Washington, D. C„ in person or by writing a "life-history" letter. Prompt attention will be accorded.

Briefly, the general qualifications are as follows: A. Mentally, morally and physically fit for commission in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. Age 22-42. B. Outstanding as to education or successful accomplishments in one or more of the following: (a) Electrical, Radio, Communication, Engineers. (b) Mechanical, Civil, Mining, Engineers. (c) Aircraft Maintenance—Aircraft Material. (d) Gunnery, Ordnance, Metallurgists. (e) Meteorologists (advanced). (f) Astronomers. (g) Diesel Engineers. (h) Airport Engineers—Architects, Landscape architects. (i) Proficiency in Japanese, Javanese, Malayan.

Those who receive commissions will be sent to Reserve Officers' School, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia. In some cases this indoctrinal course will be supplemented by additional courses at specialist schools.

Applicants are desired who want to be Marines, and who will be ready for duty any time and anywhere, as required for the best interests of the Service.

Major, USMC.

Headquarters, U. S. Marine CorpsDivision of AviationWashington, D. C.

"Swan Song"

To THE EDITOR: Among some of my mementos I ran across a clipping which was published fully twentyfive years ago and impressed me so much at the time that I have read it frequently with much pleasure and no little pride.

If you do not remember the "Swan Song" and if it has not appeared in some issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE (or even if it has), perhaps a repetition for the benefit of our old associates, to say nothing of the thousands who have passed through the Halls of Dartmouth during the past decade or two, would be welcome.

New York City.

The Dartmouth-Born

JAMES B. REYNOLDS 'go

We've drunk to our alma mater, We've drunk to the Hanover land,

We've drunk to our Harvard brother, To Yale spirit and Princeton sand.

Here's to the men who do things, To a band that none can scorn,

Last toast, and of obligation, A health to the Dartmouth-born.

They change their skies above them. But not their hearts that roam;

They learned from their college mother

To call old Dartmouth "home." Their hearts are true to her teaching,

Their love's where they spent their toil, And their faith and their hope and their honor

They pledge to their native soil.

I charge you charge your glasses; I charge you drink with me

To the sons of Dartmouth College, Wherever they may be;

To the granite of old New Hampshire, A good thing on which to build,

To her sun—and how it blistered! To her cold—and how it chilled!

To the grim old Hanover winter, Six months long and six feet deep;

To the Macbeth-like bells of chapel, For, like him, they "murder sleep";

To the land of the waiting springtime; To the "Junct," with its so-called food;

To the Lebanon belles and houris, Whom we once thought beatitude.

To the towering Mount Ascutney, To our river that flows to the sea,

To the famous shirtsleeves of old Frary, To Kipling's land of the free;

To Mink brook and the Vale of Tempe; To the vine-clad red brick wall,

That mecca for years of all students That nestled behind Dartmouth hall.

To men who made Dartmouth famous Twould take weeks to mention them all

How is this for a good sample trio, Dan Webster, Rufe Choate and Ike Paul?

And soldiers great as Napoleon In uniform most ravishing,

Who never drew swords—but in rafflesCharley Darling, Joe Bartlett, A. Spring?

To Mel, mighty Baron of Brewster,

King of the narrow gage line; Sam Powers, who put nations in mourning

When he dared a judgeship to decline. And here's to the brain of John Marshall

In a frame that looks like Bill Nye, To its owner, Chief Justice John Aiken, Ideal judge, as all testify.

To our lawyers who fight for the people, With no thought for fee or for gain,

Tom Proctor, Frank Streeter, Sam Hudson, Charley Bartlett and Ralph Sunbeam from Maine;

McDonald, the Demmies' new leader, Guy Cox, the pride of Ward 10;

To the youngest of all the alumni, George Williams, loved of all Dartmouth men.

A health to Old Dartmouth, God bless her; To her present, her future, her past;

May she always be true to tradition, And never fall victim to caste.

A health to her Boston sons able, Who so many high stations adorn;

Last toast, from each man at the table, A health to the Dartmouth-born.

Non-Graduates

To THE EDITOR: The leading editorial, "Non-Graduate Loy- alty" in your October issue was a gracious salute which I know will be appreciated. It was well handled and written.

Non-grads need no satisfaction further than is afforded already by their tie of former connection with the grand old college, but your gesture and goodwill must make quite a number of fellows feel a warm glow inside, where love of Dartmouth resides.

Please give my thanks to the writer of it.

Bath, Me.