Letters

Mistaken Identity

The editor is in receipt of a communication from Chet Worthington, editor of the Brown alumni magazine, pointing out, with pictorial evidence (see cut), the striking similarity between the Dartmouth alumnus who appeared in our reunion box this past spring and the current villain of the Dixie Dugan comic strip, and expressing some surprise that the Dartmouth alumni body should harbor such a black sheep. With all due credit to Mr. Worthington's amazing visual virtuosity, he has fallen into a common error and we have had to straighten him out by return mail. There were twin brothers, almost identical, in that particular family. One came to Dart mouth and naturally turned out to be a fine upstanding citizen. The other, headstrong and heedless of good advice, chose another educational path, which we won't identify (but it's not so far from here) and fell in with a bad crowd. Although he apparently has done all right in the matter of the world's goods, and has a butler, he has perpetrated an abominable crime and currently is in hot water. We thus go into detail so that others will not make the same mistake of blaming his guiltless Dartmouth brother, who was good enough to pose for our Mr. Roach, whose sketch considerably preceded the Dixie Dugan villain.

Omission

To THE EDITOR:

In the very interesting profile of Dean Morse which appeared in your October issue there are listed a number of administrative officers who originally were members of the faculty. One important omission in this list is Robert O. Conant '13, now the Registrar of the College. I think you will find that he first served as Instructor in Romance Languages, from 1919 to 1921.

Hanover, N. H

In eulogizing Daniel Webster at the Col lege on July 27, 1853, Rufus Choate used per haps the longest sentence ever spoken. It con tained 1200 words and lasted ten minutes.