THE DARTMOUTH RECORD

The last time we looked, Dartmouth College's football record, by which some people seem to judge an institution of higher learning, was not very impressive.

In football, the Big Green may not be going any place in particular; but in one respect, transcending any athlete record, Dartmouth is far ahead of any college we know of. That is in the degree of alumni participation in financial support of the institution.

A large percentage, in fact a shamefully heavy majority in a good many cases, of the alumni of privately endowed colleges of Ohio are apathetic toward the serious plight of the voluntarily supported institutions of higher learning. We recently (Oct. 10) censured that big group of alumni of Ohio colleges who have contributed nothing to the solution of the fiscal problem besetting schools imperatively needing more operating funds in order to avert a lowering of academic standards or federal subsidy and its inevitable concomitant—federal control.

Now we want to point to a college that has done a superlative job on enlisting alumni support and alumni loyalty—Dartmouth. Last year 65% of all living alumni of the institution at Hanover, N. H., contributed to the alumni fund of Dartmouth. The total of those contributions was $414,916, which "covered," according to the Dartmouth AlumniMagazine, "what otherwise would have been a deficit in the college's financial operations."

We think it would be a practical idea for a group of college officials representing the voluntarily supported colleges of Ohio to go to work right away learning what Dartmouth did to achieve its remarkable record, so that lessons learned in Hanover, N. H., could be applied to the privately endowed and alumnisupported institutions of higher learning in this state.