Farewell and Hail

As PRESIDENT HOPKINS lays down the task of directing the affairs of Dartmouth College, President Dickey takes over. It is well to be spared the turmoil and uncertainty that a prolonged interregnum would have entailed. This time there is not even a "scintilla" of break in the Wheelock Succession. The hand that has carried the torch transfers it immediately to another, without the intermission of a single second. Continuity is complete.

The times change, and we change with them. The new president faces contingencies likely to be wholly different in their details, if not in their essence, from those which President Hopkins faced in 1916. He is perfectly free to meet them in any way that may seem to him expedient. He is not hampered by inherited plans based on possibly mistaken conjecture. The consensus to date is not only that is this wise, but also that the new hand is worthy to be entrusted with planning and executing for itself.

The Dartmouth fellowship now has to get acquainted with President Dickey, whose personality is certainly not so widely known among the alumni body as was 'Hop's" when he took hold nearly thirty years ago. President Dickey's connection with the College has been indirect, like that of any other alumnus not immediately involved in its affairs. He's one of us who wears the Dartmouth green—and that's enough! It is much that those who do know him well are, to a man, enthusiastic m their endorsement of the choice. It must be an inspiration to sit down before a virgin page of Dartmouth's history with the task of writing on it a continuation of so creditable a record—an inspiration which has its solemn side, for to follow "Hop" can be no easy job.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the Dartmouth alumni the world over now pledge their loyalty and backing to the new president, with every confidence that he will, in the current phrase, "measure up." No miracles are asked, for none is needed. No impossibilities are demanded, for none is required. What is asked is merely success in seeking and finding what Dr. Tucker once called "the higher ranges of the practical." In that, we shall all help in every way we can.

THE DARTMOUTH MARINE DRILL TEAM PERFORMS BETWEEN THE HALVES OF THE OPENING GAME