THE AUTHOR:

David McCord, a frequent and welcome visitor to Hanover, and a summer neighbor in Woodstock, Vt., is poet, essayist, editor, painter and, until recently, alumni fundraiser for Harvard. Last year he retired from the Harvard Fund Council, which he had served as executive director since 1925. His article is a distillation of his beliefs about a college and the relation of its students and graduates to it.

Mr. McCord has written twenty books of poetry, light verse, and essays and has edited four others, among which is his well-known anthology, What Cheer. His second volume of verse for children, Take Sky, has just recently been published. In his 45-year university career, he was editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin; Phi Beta Kappa poet at Harvard, Tufts, and William and Mary; and lecturer on many campuses.