How Black?

WHAT ABOUT THE FUTURE of the College? It is black but how black? At the Alumni Council meeting the group of men drawn from all parts of the country discussed "War and the College" for several hours. The treasurer of the College, from the financial point of view, said "Ithas always been difficult to meet the difference between income from tuition (about5°%) anil the cost Per student, and thiswill become a much more critical problem in the future." Graduation of most of the new senior class in December will raise serious problems for income in the second half of the next year. But, he said, the present financial situation of the College is good because Dartmouth is free of debt and has no unfmanced plant or heavy obligations to be met as do many other institutions that enter the crisis less well prepared in these respects.

The Alumni Council heard Dean Strong say that the quality of entering classes will be maintained, even though numbers decrease, because "Dartmouth is not going to dilute the quality of its product, the graduates." .... It heard Dean Neidlinger speak of the cordial relations that exist between the College and the authorities of all branches of the Armed Services and the reliance of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps upon colleges like Dartmouth for continuation of a top job in education. This they feel will provide them with the best personnel for commissions and advanced training.

The hundreds of Dartmouth men in Hanover May 15-17 heard President Hopkins in two stirring addresses, at the dinner of class officers and at the Alumni Luncheon. There was no lack of courage and confidence in what the President said, or in how he said it. He used at one point, in describing Dartmouth's position, the words of Mallet who spoke of Oxford:

"Through all the changes, greater thanthe traditions gathered round her, wiserthan the prejudices which she has out-grown, saved by the new blood ever flowingthrough her as strongly as the waters underneath her walls, still young in heart andineffaceable in beauty, the College lives,sharing her treasures ungrudgingly withthose who seek them, her spirit with thosewho understand."