Letters

First Harvard Victor

To THE EDITOR: In your July obituary notice of Varney '02, page 48, you say that he pitched the first ball game in which Dartmouth had ever beaten Harvard.

I think this is in error. Varney did a great job in defeating Harvard but back in 1892 Frank O'Connor, pitching on the old campus, defeated Harvard 4 to 3.

When I entered college that fall and for a long time thereafter that score was painted in red on the sidewalk in front of the old college church.

Perhaps ball teams upon which Medics played are no longer regarded as Dartmouth teams but they were in those days. Frank O'Connor and Archie Ranney, his catcher, probably were the best battery Dartmouth ever had.

If such statements as yours go unchallenged, some writer, fifty years from now may discover that the game of 1892 was never played. Such is the office of newspapers.

Lawrence, Mass.

Opening Address

To THE EDITOR: I dislike to take issue with the accuracy of Dr. Dickey's statement at the convocation exercises, but factually, United States forces were ordered into Korea, and the 7th Fleet was ordered to protect Formosa, before any action was taken by the U N Security Council.

Factually, as to procedure, it would have made no difference whatsoever whether the Soviet delegate had been present after the fact or not.

The order was already in action, and even a veto would have served to point up the fact that the United States is the Security Council. Its 30,000 casualties to date, its contributed home in New York, etc., make it plain to the student body, if not to its President, that we are those entrusted with security unto death, unless and until those other sections of the world demonstrate a practical example of a proportionate sacrifice of life and dollars.

This kind of publicity, which I enclose,is not good for Dartmouth College for the simple reason that it is not true.

Middleboro, Mass.