From the Mailbag
IN SENDING GIFTS to the Alumni Fund manynotes and letters accompany -contributions. Following are abstracts from some of the Fund's mailbag which we are privileged to publish this month. —ED.
It has been lots of fun working these last ten years. I hope I'll be able to remain active in Alumni Fund work for the rest of my life. It's a grand way to keep in touch with Dartmouth I hope the gang can stay with Dartmouth for the duration and keep it going. We'll need it when the war is over more than ever ~32 Lt. USNR.
In all probability I will be in foreign waters during the coming Alumni Fund. I am therefore enclosing my check for $156.13 to be credited to the class of 1937.
Why the odd amount? You will recall that I wrote you last August 17th, just before I went into service, inquiring as to the average cost per student for the four years 1933-37 that I was in college as well as the average amount paid per student during those four years. For 1933-34, my freshman year, the difference between these two amounts, that is, the portion taken care of by the College, was $306.13.
I have always felt that this cost of my college education was a just personal debt, to be taken care of as soon as possible that others might enjoy the same privilege in the years to come. My check for $156.13 therefore cuts my debt of almost ten years standing to an even $150.00. I hope to be able to clean that up next year and in the years to come to pay the balance due for the other three wonderful years I spent at Dartmouth.— Ensign.
Best regards to all those in Hanover whose work is a "must" in this cockeyed ■world.—'34 AUS.
I am enclosing a check for the Alumni Fund for the amount of $25. I'm all for the idea of the college going on, even if for only a "handful of students" as Mr. Hopkins puts it, so I'm glad if I can help in any way.—'42 Naval Flyer.
As a physical disability prevents me from serving with our armed forces, I trust that you will accept this small gift (check for $lOO enclosed) to the College in memory of those members of the class of 1940 who have died in the service and as a toast of good luck to Dartmouth men stationed "round the girdled earth."—'40.
The last normal days we have known were spent at Dartmouth and for that reason she seems to represent the strength and beauty of the days we once knew and the days we shall know once again. Most of us are pretty inarticulate about just what we are fighting for, but we feel and do know what it is. We need such men as President Hopkins to put it into words for us. And those of us who have had a liberal education such as that which we received at Dartmouth know , that ideals of peace and freedom on a world-wide scale are visions which are attainable. A war to bring this about is no time to halt the teaching of such ideas, and so the assurances of President Hopkins as to the future of the College are backed to the hilt by those of her sons in the fight.—'41 Ensign, USNR.
