THERE'S AN INSTINCT for bargaining in a Yankee that one finds in the treasurer of the College, Halsey C. Edgerton '06. His attention to accuracy and thoroughness in whatever reaches him or his desk is of the painstaking variety. His long service to Dartmouth, which has extended without interruption since his graduation in 1906, for 36 years, has been too little recognized. And the scope of his work, which has so greatly increased in responsibility with the growth of the College, has likewise been appreciated less often than is eminently deserved.
In this Alumni Fund issue we are happy to honor Halsey Edgerton. And we are grateful to Arthur Dewing for authorship of the biographical article in which just a bit about the amazingly diversified and important career of Dartmouth's treasurer is told,