One More for the Book

THESE LINES ARE WRITTEN shortly before the compilation of the final records for the current year's Alumni Fund campaign, but the indications are clearly such as to warrant the belief that the goals set will be so handsomely exceeded as to justify a cheer.

Explicit details will be found elsewhere in this issue of the MAGAZINE and will repay thoughtful study. In them will be found a further exemplification of the Dartmouth spirit, expressed in its most obviously tangible form. It is no sordid matter of dollars and cents, for it would be unworthy to evaluate a spiritual asset in that manner; none the less the financial aspect of it cannot be ignored, and it is one of the fruits of our alumni system which have direct importance on the maintenance and upbuilding of Dartmouth.

Particularly important is it when one takes into account the financial problems sure to arise when the College converts its wartime estate into the forms which that estate must take in times of peace. Very wisely, the administrators of the College have decided to accumulate a reserve to offset the drain which reconversion is bound to entail. We have weathered the time of crisis very well, thanks to the cooperation of the Government in allocating to us substantial units of Navy and Marine students. What we have to face now is an interval during which the student body must be reconstituted on a civilian basis; and in that interval there is pretty sure to be a lag which will have to be made up.

An organization sufficient to handle the full duty of civilian education has to be maintained, though for the moment it will exceed the requirements imposed upon it. Fortunately this will be adequately handled by resort to the accumulations of the Alumni Fund. In the matter of invested funds, Dartmouth is insufficiently endowed. In the matter of alumni interest, no other college is richer, or more fortunate. We have met these recurrent tests in the past two years amazingly well—and by all the indications this year will add to the record, by scoring one more triumph for the book.

PRESIDENT HOPKINS AND THE TRUSTEES REVIEW THE DARTMOUTH V-12 UNIT