A Vermont Triumvirate

WELL, IF THIS GOES ON MUCH LONGER, Springfield, without designation of state, will be meaning the Vermont, not the Massachusetts city, and newspapermen writing of our own Springfield will have to add a parenthesis (not Vt.). The chief justice of our supreme judicial court, Fred Tarbell Field, comes from Springfield, Vermont, and probably considers it home. Edward Sanborn French, president of the Boston and Maine, was unfortunate enough to be born elsewhere, but he has a home in Springfield and is considered a genuine Springfieldian. Another son of Springfield, Vermont, Ralph Edward Flanders, has just been appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Not too bad, not too bad! What triumvirate, even of men who do not have the same initial letter, can our Hampden County metropolis of the Connecticut Valley produce to equal this judicial-transportational-financial group from the little center of Windsor County, Vermont? And if, waiving trivial geographical fortuities, you magnanimously admit that Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont, the home of Calvin Coolidge, is a sort of spiritual suburb of Springfield and influenced by it culturally, there's nothing to the comparison. The Bay State Springfield becomes relatively obscure, the Vermont Springfield, is THE Springfield, and its only rival for fame is that Illinois Springfield where Abraham Lincoln lived.

The Boston Herald.

All three members of this tamed triumvirate from nearby Springfield are holders of Dartmouth degrees. Mr. French, a Life Trustee of the College, graduated with the class of 1906. Justice Field received Dartmouth's honorary LL.D. in 1931, and Mr. Flanders, a frequent visitor to Hanover, became an honorary Master of Arts in 1932.