Letters

"Consider These Facts"

To THE EDITOR:

Let me cross swords with Robert D. Ireland '36, who stated in the January issue that intercollegiate football is not played today as a game. Dartmouth is one of the few remaining colleges still trying to keep it a game, and many of us are justly proud of this fact.

Any high school athlete who looks upon Dartmouth College as a "deal" and is not satisfied with what he sees will benefit both himself and the College by matriculating elsewhere.

It is true that football provides a main source of publicity for the College, but Mr. Ireland falsely infers that Dartmouth's prestige rests upon our producing winning teams.

The College has grown to its present stature as an educational institution (not a training camp for professional athletes) through the efforts of brilliant administrators and professors, and because the world has seen that year after year we send forth outstanding leaders into all phases of life.

Sports enthusiasts among the alumni should consider these facts before hastily recommending that we make the tail wag the dog.

Honolulu, Hawaii

Put to Good Use

To THE EDITOR:

I thought you might be interested to know that the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE has made good reading for some boys and girls here. I have given the magazine to the dormitory and it is passed around and many articles discussed. It reaches them in this way better than to put it in the library, its final resting place.

These small colleges need to know what is being done in all educational institutions. This is a State Teachers College. Doctor Pollard never let a chance slip to talk of Dartmouth to the students here, and I , hope the MAGAZINE may do as much for the new ones here as his talks did for the old ones.

So many are confused that it helps to give them different views of what they consider almost lost causes. They were very interested in the fact that any man would donate thousands to start a study of a graduate's function after college.

Peru, Nebraska

Fan Mail,

To THE EDITOR:

I have just finished reading the January issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, and I want to tell you what a wonderful institution this publication has become with me since graduation.

Every issue seems to me an exciting experience, and the quality of the contributions in every department is superlative.... About Mr. McCarter, let me add that to me he represents a more entertaining and edifying essayist than one of the "good guys named 'Red' " whom he mentions - "Red" Smith. And "Red" Smith used to epitomize reading enjoyment for me before I entered the service and lost contact with his prose.

Tinker AFB, Okla.