1895*

The upthundering war which has crashed down upon our beloved country since the December issue of the MAGAZINE, has already wrought startling changes, not only in our way of life, but in our manner of thinking. How many of my classmates have already tightened their belts, so to speak, I have no way of knowing. We of '95 shall all feel the woes of this war before we have won it and for the rest of our mortal existence, I verily believe. That the souls of Dartmouth men guiding the college in these days of stress and anxiety, are resurgent, is attested by the remarkable prayer offered by President Hopkins in Rollins Chapel in mid-December. The prayer appears on page 20 of the January issue, and I urge that you read it, and move its adoption by my classmates.

Those who favor the motion will please make it manifest by post card, letter, telegram, or telephone. Bear in mind that this prayer ascended from the desk of Rollins Chapel, where during our four years at Dartmouth we assembled perforce, perhaps more than half willingly, for prayers six mornings each week and for Sunday evening vespers.

In retrospect many of us, I think, recall the strong intellectual presence of President Bartlett in our Freshman year, and the magnetic presence of President Tucker in our Junior and Senior years. Probably the only words any one of us can actually quote from the hundreds of prayerful supplications uttered by these two remarkable men, and by Prof. J. K. Lord in the interim, are those repetitious words "Hasten the day," etc. But who can gauge the lasting influence of these men of solid character, upon our plastic, half-pagan minds, as we sat together in Chapel fifty years or so ago. SRall we have a vote on the December 14, 1941, prayer quoted above?

Secretary, White River Junction, Vt.