Letters

Unanimous Opinion

To THE EDITOR:

At the last meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Winter Park, the question of a suitable memorial for President Ernest M. Hopkins, as outlined in the March issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, was discussed. It was the unanimous opinion of the members present that the new "Dartmouth Center" should be named the "Hopkins War Memorial."

This would memorialize both President Hopkins' long service to the College, including and culminating in the years of the recent conflict, as well as the memory of the Dartmouth men who lost their lives in World War 11.

It was also the unanimous opinion of the Club that the proposed "Eleazar Wheelock Memorial" be omitted from the vestibule of Dartmouth Center and reserved for a more appropriate use.

After discussion, it was agreed to recommend that in view of the fact that Eleazar Wheelock was the Founder of Dartmouth College and of the Church of Christ in Hanover, and the first of Dartmouth's long line of clerical Presidents, that Eleazar Wheelock's name be reserved until such time as it is possible to build the "Eleazar Wheelock Chapel."

It was felt that such a memorial would be more appropriate and dignified than the proposed statue and bas reliefs in the vestibule of a multiple memorial building honoring widely diverse personalities and services, and doing justice to no one of them.

As suggested in the March issue, we believe that this question merits the thoughtful debate of all alumni interested in honoring the name of the founder of the College.

DARTMOUTH CLUB OF WINTER PARK

Winter Park, Fla.

Concerning Labor

TO THE EDITOR:

Please permit me space to voice my thanks to Prof. Harry R. F. Shaw for his letter in the May number of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE pointing out that the views expressed by Prof. Keir in his article on Labor were not typical of those held by other members of the Department of Economics at Dartmouth. It was especially gratifying to note his disclaimer of the conclusions in the last two paragraphs of the Keir article.

One reads the Keir piece again and again and wonders the more how its author could ever arrive at such conclusions—unless, mayhap, when he states that "Labor marches with the times" he means that Labor looks upon present chaotic world conditions as affordine the opportunity of opportunities to strike and to the devil with the suffering and the starving, so long as WE get OURS.

Hanover, N. H.

Another " Webster"

To THE EDITOR

I was extremely interested in Professor Allan Mac Donald's article "Webster at Sea" in the January 1946 issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE.

Among the many smaller craft which bore Webster's name, I would mention the Boston pilot boat Daniel Webster. Both my grandfathers, Captain William R. Lampee and Captain Thomas Cooper, were master mariners and for many years Boston pilots. Both served on the Webster in the early 1850's.

Over the mantel of the fireplace in our living room hangs an oil painting of this old pilot boat which was painted for Captain Lampee, (the Captain at the tiller). Judged by the work of eminent marine artists, past and present, this painting, well over ninety years old, artist unknown, is somewhat stiff and crude. Yet I believe it faithfully depicts the type of pilot boat and schooner yacht of the period.

The Webster was built at Chelsea, Mass., in 1851. Her overall dimensions were length 63' 6", breadth 18' 6", depth 7' 7". Tonnage 77-35/95 tons old measurement.

I have no knowledge of the Webster's ultimate fate. She was in course of time sold out of the service, possibly to pilots of some other port. Such was the superiority of pilot built in and around Boston that they were eagerly bought up by pilots of New York and the east coast, the Gulf ports, San Francisco and even Buenos Aires. Yachtsmen who desired speedy, able and handsome schooners found in Boston pilot boats the craft best suited to their needs and several were sold from time to time for conversion into cruising schooner yachts.

Whatever her career I am certain that she upheld worthily the fame of Dartmouth's great alumnus for whom she was named.

Photo of this painting was taken by Greenough Abbe, Class of 1924.

Boston, Mass.

THE PILOT BOAT "DANIEL WEBSTER"