We Shall Because We Must

Since these are times that try men's souls, financially and in every other way, the Alumni Fund naturally will feel the pinch. However let it be remembered that this is a case that needs no arguing. In circumstances which all can see and comprehend. Dartmouth College has to finance herself—and because she must, she will. To atone for depleted revenues, eroded by the war, one must fall back on the Alumni Fund to a greater extent than is usual as the one visible means of averting a deficit of crippling proportions. Ordinary income is necessarily reduced. Ordinary outgo, though curtailed as much as possible, remains out of balance with respect to intake. The discrepancy, temporarily greater than usual, has to be redressed by an effort also temporarily greater than in the past. In fine, there is a greater need of the Alumni Fund than ever. Because we, the grateful alumni of Dartmouth, must raise it, we shall raise it.

Much has been said during less hectic years about "giving till it hurts" and this oft repeated phrase will, for most of us, mean more than it has ever meant before. Many will feel the impact of their gifts more than they have in the past. The compensation is that whatever pangs there may be are well worth their pains. This is worth doing the hard way. The easy way might be to fall back on government subsidization, of which one hears some talk in this and many other lines, but that would be fatal to true academic freedom in the end. We shall stand on our own feet. We shall contrive to pay our own bills. And our souls will remain our own.

Dartmouth makes her usual appeal for the support of her sons, and this time makes it with more urgency than ever before. The College will be kept intact, will be kept functioning, and most importantly of all will be kept free. Dartmouth men will see to that. It is one method of insuring the continuance of the American Way.