Letters to the Editor

What Price "College"?

TO THE EDITOR:

I have watched with interest and some amusement the College's cat-like tread down the Ph.D. trail; and I now learn from the November ALUMNI MAGAZINE that the Ph.D. is to be awarded in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. I note also that the training is to be "post-baccalaureate" rather than graduate. This reminds me of my own field when we went in for "post defense" training around 1940, as "war" was a word which never could be mentioned in isolationist Chicago.

I am of the generation when stentorian-voiced alumni and administrative officers of the College would proclaim at all times and in all places that Dartmouth is a "college," and "never" a university. But times did change, and the College offered a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. Now we are in Math-ematics and Physics, with the Humanities and Social Sciences in the wings. But, shh, students taking this instruction are to be "post baccalaureate." However, they will think of themselves as graduate students, and others wilt so consider them.

Why not Dartmouth University? As the ads used to say, "Eventually, why not now?" I note the MAGAZINE is a member of the Ivy League Magazines, and all other members are universities. I recall that Dr. Milton Eisenhower went to South America, and that he learned no one knew what he was when he appeared as President of Pennsylvania State College. When he got back, it soon was Pennsylvania State University. The day has passed when American colleges are American only, as a glance around any campus will show. I think Dartmouth should recognize this, and not pride herself on being out of step with her peers.

Durham, N.H.

Harvard's Dastardly Trick

TO THE EDITOR:

The attached piece from the Los AngelesTimes* explains the reason for the Big Green's defeat at the hands of the Crimson.

What a dastardly trick to place this blonde bomb "right behind the band" garbed in a green miniskirt. Can't you see her effect on those sex-starved lads from the frosty hinterlands! How could they possibly keep their eyes on the field ... the foe ... let alone the BALL!

This certainly must rank as the worst deceptive maneuver since the "Fifth Down" episode, and if the Harvards had one shred of fair play, they would return the victory to Hanover!

San Diego, Calif.

* The syndicated feature, which described the telecast of the Dartmouth-Harvard game as "the thriller-chiller of all time," dealt mainly with a young Harvard couple entirely unaware that the ABC camera was periodically picking up their reactions to the game. The girl, a long-haired blonde with a Garbo face, was "standing right behind the Harvard band stand. She was wearing a green miniskirt and a suede jacket." That she was almost as much of an attraction for the TV audience as the game itself was underlined when ABC began getting telephone calls asking who she was. The TV people didn't know, and according to the article, they still don't.

Yale in Hanover?

TO THE EDITOR:

I cannot figure out why your office is not deluged with letters from alumni asking that the 1969 football schedule highlight a game in Hanover with Yale for our 200th anniversary.

If Dartmouth was founded by a Yale man, and if Yale has never played in Hanover (or possibly only once), why would it not be a natural?

Of course by that time I hope fumbilitis has been taken care of, for it nearly ruined us last year and finally caught up with us this year. Next Saturday, against Yale, we had better not present them with the ball too often, for we must not think we have to come from behind every game.

Pomona, Calif.

Encouragement

TO THE EDITOR:

Your October number just received and I want to congratulate you, as I do think it is the best issue of the MAGAZINE I have ever seen. General Gavin's article is of greatest interest, and Wanger's also is good and causes us to think.

The story and pictures of the demolition and rebuilding of the Inn are just what I wanted and if you had not published them I am sure I would have asked you to at least print a picture of the architect's plan for the new section. I have so many memories of this Inn dating back to the days when Lord Dartmouth and his Lady with their daughter visited Hanover for the laying of the cornerstone of Dartmouth Hall in the fall of 1904, I think, and I have so many, many memories of the building in later years.

Your "Alumni Album" is a grand idea and although I knew none of those pictured, the pictures were good and the stories fine. Do hope you can keep this up.

Bronx, N.Y.