Censor Alumni News
AT THE REQUEST of the Director of Censorship we will not publish in the columns of class notes, or on other pages, any information of a military nature that might conceivably give aid to the enemy. We have asked class secretaries to omit the names of ships, and location of ships, to which men in their classes are attached. News about men in the army within the boundaries of the country is considered harmless but reports of troop or air movements in the direction of embarkation points will not be used. Such information will often reach class secretaries. Its news value if released to the class may bulk large as compared with the possibility of comforting the enemy. But from now on strict censorship prevails.
There will still be plenty of news to report in the class columns of both civilian and military variety. Your editors are proud of the fine job that secretaries of classes and alumni clubs do in their notes that run to 50 or more pages every month. The quality and readability of column after column of material in the back part of this magazine amaze us—we can speak in high praise because those pages are not ours—they belong to the loyal and talented men who manage class affairs and turn out such an abundance of news every month.
Just for the fun of it, pick a class at random—one not of your time in college. Take a few moments to read news and comment about names that are strange, but are part of Dartmouth. We hear there are many people who do this every month, who read the entire gamut of class notes, and call it just as good as a Book of the Month. The editor should acknowledge at every opportunity the superlatively good work done by the secretaries, to whom we are indebted for the best and largest part of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.
Beginning next month class secretaries have been asked to cut their class notes space by one-third. Increased paper and production costs leave no alternative to cutting the number of pages per issue if we are to stay within bounds financially this year. All other sections of the MAGAZINE will also be reduced as may seem possible and wise in relation to their importance to readers. We do not think you will find the quality or content of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE adversely affected to a serious or noticeable degree. Our hope is that we may continue, although on a somewhat reduced ration of space, to provide the line of communication between Dartmouth men, and between them and the College, that is our most important and enduring objective.
