Letters

Family Influence

To THE EDITOR: It would seem clear that the reason for the Republican complexion of Dartmouth is the high cost of education in privately endowed colleges. Only families of good income can afford to send their sons to Dartmouth and such families are normally Republican. Their children drink in a Republican spirit and Republican ideas and viewpoint with their mother's formula, hear them continuously and grow up little Republicans. They are preconditioned. A college education ought, of course, to make them informed thinkers and independent voters. That it does not, as a rule, simply proves once more the decisive power of the earlier years.

Burlington, Vt.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Michael H. Cardozo '32, whose November letter to the editor started the discussion of Republicanism among Dartmouth men, has written that he doesn't think any extension of his comments should be published now but that he would like to call attention to two points: (1) he received just over a dozen letters from alumni supporting his views, and (2) he "never intended to suggest that the qualifications of applicants for admission be judged in any way on the basis of their political views and regrets that anyone could have interpreted the letter as making such a proposal."