A Living Endowment

DARTMOUTH DOES NOT HAVE vast riches that can be counted and stored in vaults. But it does have an endowment more precious than great riches—it has a "living endowment" made up of 20,000 alumni. This is an indestructible asset of immeasurable value.

It takes 1200 pages of small type to list in the General Catalogue the names and the careers, briefly, of the men who have given and are giving their strength and support to the College. It would take many more volumes to describe a part of what these men have done for Dartmouth and what this has meant to the College. There is that difference between 20,000 names in a directory and the intimate relationships between these men and the College that has come to be a distinguishing characteristic of Dartmouth.

THE 1942 CAMPAIGN of the Alumni Fund begins this month. Last year the drive celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Mr. Hopkins' presidency of the College. The results, which are recorded in this issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, brought nearly $200,000 in total gifts and in many other respects went far beyond all previous achievements of the Fund.

An immediate and compelling incentive to contribute, such as the President's Anniversary of a year ago, is lacking this spring. But the need is greater. The plain facts are that the Alumni Fund is a solid rock upon which the security of the College is based. Uncertainties and critical problems of this and future years can be faced with confidence at a time when the Fund has made the strongest showing in its long and record-breaking history.