LETTERS

Convinced

To THE EDITOR:

Please congratulate Justice Blandin for me for his thrilling article, "It Was a Dartmouth Jinx All the Time." Not only did I relive the excitement of all the Yale games which I have been fortunate enough to attend, but I caught the tension and reverberation of those which I missed.

He changed my mind, and I am a lawyer.

Norfolk, Va.

Forward Leap

To THE EDITOR

I should like to express my appreciation for the new educational vistas you have been opening up to alumni in recent years. This continuing education is a logical development for the College. Dartmouth has leaped forward magnificently in its two remarkable convocations.

Durham, N. H

A West Coast Proposal

To THE EDITOR:

There is a matter which has been turning itself over in my mind like Frigidaire's somersault washer. There are a lot of persons on the West Coast who come from states other than the Mid-west, though I admit the latter are in the majority. I know, too, that no Ivy League football team could compete on an even basis with a team like Washington or whichever is the year's western champ, but if a composite Ivy League team were to come west some year for a Bowl game, it would be a break for thousands of us who come from the northeast section of the U.S.A.

This fall, for example, Yale had a team rated 17th in the nation. If as champ they could bring five members, and the other seven schools four men each, it would make a squad of 33 players who could make a real game of it - not that winning or losing carries too much weight, but think of the interest it would arouse among Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth men, and all the others all over the country. I am not advocating this as a general practice, but simply as a "once in a lifetime" affair for variety and novelty.

The coaches and band could come from the Ivy League champ. As a visiting team it would wear light suits, but the stockings could reveal the identity of the men by the colors of their school. It would truly be a representative team, and perhaps bring back some of the lustre that accrued to Ivy League teams of 60 years ago when the All-American team came from the Big Three. The expense would be divided so as to be negligible, though the game could easily be a money-maker. We speak about "team effort." Well, this would be an Ivy League effort, and what a break for the members of the all-league squad to spend the holidays in Southern California. Of course, the Rose Bowl officials would have to He : sold the idea, and if not interested, we could try the Orange, Sugar, or Cotton Bowl, just so that we can see some *down easterners" in action on a nation-wide TV hookup.

Just as Minnesota last year opposed Bowl games, but this year is very enthusiastic over a particular one, possibly the Ivy League would relent and lift its ban on post-season Bowl games for one year at least.

Whittier, Calif.