Letters

An Added Alternative

To THE EDITOR:

The action of the Board of Trustees raising the annual fee, and at the same time increasing financial aid to students, should meet the approval of all. The fact that the Trustees could contemplate but three alternatives, (a) raise the tuition, (b) seek gifts, (c) cut the quality of a Dartmouth education, distresses me greatly. Would they (c) fire the faculty before (d) using some of the endowment funds?

Certainly it would be unfortunate if some stocks and bonds had to be sold, but most of us (I hope) regard them as less sacred than the quality of a Dartmouth education.

Taylorville, Ill.

Thanks to the increased fee and the superlative results of the Alumni Fund, alternative(d) does not have to be worried over at thistime. We agree that (d) would indeed beunfortunate, for it would be a temporaryexpedient at best and would still furtherreduce the endowment income which the College so badly needs. Whatever the solution inany given set of circumstances, we doubt thatfiring the faculty would ever be the choice.Eel.

Symbol of Seniority

To THE EDITOR:

Several years ago a leading Boston daily newspaper sent a gold-handled ebony cane to every township in New Hampshire, to be carried by the oldest male resident.

It seems as if it would be appropriate for Dartmouth College to give a similar symbol always to be carried by the oldest living graduate.

Bath, N. H.

If such a symbol were adopted, the man whowould carry it at present is Charles G. Johnson '71 of Pasadena, California, who was 98on July 4.—Ed.