Agrees with Kingsley

Agrees with Kingsley

To THE EDITOR:

Perhaps the oldsters - Kingsley '14 and I - are not alive to the manifold advantages of so-called modern design dormitories, but I strongly believe they will be an eyesore in Hanover.

The beauty of Dartmouth, and one of our cherished memories, is the New England architecture.

Let's think carefully before we destroy our harmony with such structures.

Leesburg, Va.

He Does TOO

To THE EDITOR:

I write to express full agreement with the letter of Mr. Charles Kingsley '14 "On This Discordant Note" — the proposed introduction of dormitories in the contemporary style at Dartmouth College. Mr. Kingsley's argument in favor of harmony and consistency is most persuasive. Two of his similes are particularly striking: "A rectangular building has no more beauty than a rectangular woman" and "The construction of the new dormitories in the style of architecture planned will be like the introduction of a pig in a flock of sheep."

The whole of his presentation is so convincing that I think I can add nothing except complete concurrence.

Davenport, lowa

The Athletic Program

To THE EDITOR:

In the May issue, under the heading "The Intramural Facts," L. M. Sadler '28 writes to clarify any confusion regarding the status of the Dartmouth intramural athletic program which he feels may have been caused by the report in the. March issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE of my remarks to the January meeting of the Alumni Council in Minneapolis. The exact wording of that portion of my remarks to the ; Council, which referred to intramural athletics follows. "If this Council believes, as I think it does, that a full intercollegiate athletic program on the varsity and freshman levels as well as a comprehensive program of recreational and intramural athletic activities is a desirable part of the Dartmouth experience, we should be willing to accept the fact, and advise the body of alumni, that geographical location, increasing costs, television competition, and the desirability of playing in our own league prevent the Dartmouth athletic program from ever again being self-supporting in the foreseeable future. We are going to continue to have a sizable deficit every year. If a complete program is continued, the deficit is just as inevitable as the annual deficit in tuition, and instead of making excuses for it, it seems to me that we should be just as proud to provide a comprehensive athletic program which costs us more than we get for it, as we are proud of the fact that the cost of providing a boy with a Dartmouth education amounts to twice what he pays for it."

My reference to intramural athletics was entirely incidental to the point which I was trying to make, namely, that the Dartmouth athletic plant not only is no longer adequate for our needs, but also suffers by comparison with the plant of most of our Ivy League rivals, and this inadequacy imposes handicaps on our enrollment people in trying to attract the scholar-athlete interested in attending an Ivy college. Since the Dartmouth athletic program can no more be self supporting than can the similar programs of our sister colleges who do not go in for big-time football, we must look elsewhere for the funds for plant improvement, and I believe that there are those in the alumni body who, if advised of this fact, would welcome the opportunity to direct funds toward this particular Dartmouth need.

New York, N. Y.

A Distant View

To THE EDITOR

A few days ago through our class agent I made a modest contribution to the Dartmouth Alumni Fund. This I did with considerable reluctance and little personal satisfaction, because to do so I had to break a promise I had made myself not again to give anything to the College while there is still tolerated on the faculty one avowed socialist who lacks the understanding to see what is wrong with Socialism - a theoretical system which has never anywhere or under any circumstances proved workable or even shown promising results and pretty certainly never will so long as men are men instead of the imaginary creatures Socialism presupposes them to be.

I should have preferred to have had these few dollars of mine go to some conscientiously conservative school where it is regarded quite as important to avoid every error as it is to seek out and hold to the truth and where belief in any kind of nonsense is recognized to be a disqualification for a teaching position, with the exceptional opportunity it affords to influence the development of immature minds.

To what extent, if any, there may have been a change in this respect at Dartmouth the past year or two it is difficult for me to learn at this distance. I can only hope that there has been a good deal. ...

Monrovia, Calif.

Caught Up

To THE EDITOR:

Mr. Pemberton, who wrote the April article on student lingo, and Dean Kiendl seem to be in disagreement as to the use by the students of the term "See you later, alligator." Catch up boys, the latest is "See you soon, you big baboon."

Nashua, N. H.