1903

As a prize-winning correspondent with his class secretary, Billy Grant, of Denver, is the secretary's dream. Not only does he reply promptly, but he will remain after hours in his office to write in longhand or pound out with one finger on the typewriter the family news, his impressions of the state of the Union, of his efforts to mobilize public opinion in his home state, etc. I wish I could give you his letter intoto, but space forbids.

In writing of his great satisfaction with what the success of the Alumni Fund drive means, he says in part: "The Alumni Fund is a source of continuous amazement. It certainly indicates the vitality of the Dartmouth spirit. It's the sort of thing that does not die. It seems to represent a stored-up reservoir of affection and enthusiasm and power handed down by the generations of sons of Dartmouth."

"The demonstration of what the liberal education does for things of the spiritwhich Dartmouth shows, for instance,— must not be lost sight of."

Of the international situation following the war, he says: "It is a curious thing that peace is generally admitted to be more desirable than war, and yet people will do less for it. It speaks for the driving power of necessity. We all recognize that we must have jobs and opportunities for returning soldiers. Like Brer Rabbit climbing the tree, we do it because we have to. Yet the idea of an international arrangement to prevent aggression strikes many of us as impossible, and we throw up our hands before a shot is fired. The contrasting costs of war and peace don't seem to occur to us.

"Blood and bankruptcy against something, whatever it may be, is better than that. There is also a reason of necessity: five hundred million of Chinese, four hundred million Indians, millions of Malayans, etc. Some method of holding aggression in restraint may be the price of self-preservation in the next hundred years.

"Out here in an Isolationist state, we are trying to spread the idea that the world is not bounded by the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River."

Secretary, 198 Humphrey St., Marblehead, Mass Treasurer 85 John St., New York, N. Y