1938

(Editor's Note: The class secretary hasrequested that his space this month be usedto reprint from The 'Pacesetter the letter tohis classmates by President Paul Urion.)

"Fellow Classmates:

You have now learned about the Trustees' decision anent Coeducation. Let us all now close ranks regardless of our personal feelings to support our Dartmouth each in his own way secure in the knowledge that we are a government of laws and not of men.

"Two years ago, 54% of our Class voted 55% against Coeducation. In accordance with this mandate, please be assured that I have done everything possible to effect this majority vote. What is important is Dartmouth's ultimate future, and we are its architects and builders. As the great Rosenstock-Hussey of our day admonished us "we build for the future predicated upon past experience to give us some rationale for living in the present"—Antiqua Pulchritudino. It was good advice then and has stood the test of time.

"For those of you who might be critical of my zealous defense of an all-male Dartmouth, permit me an explanation.

"Like some of you, I am the father of a sixth generation Dartmouth son. And, like some of your Dads, my father was also a Dartmouth graduate, a successful lawyer both in Chicago and New York, a Dartmouth man to the core, who incidentally, married a Wellesley sister of two Dartmouth men. I think I knew "Eleazar Wheelock" before "America."

"And, like a few of you, my grandfather was also a Dartmouth graduate, a Boston lawyer and President of the Boston School Board for many years in a day when such boards fielded their myriad problems as we are all striving to do today.

"My great-grandfather, a Dartmouth man too, the son of the College Chaplain as was his two Dartmouth brothers, was the Editor of an Abolitionist newspaper in a day when Abolition was not always popular in Southern Illinois.

"And my great-great-grandfather was also a Dartmouth man, an early President of the New Hampshire Medical Society, manager of the underground railroad in a day when not all of his New Hampshire patients concurred in his beliefs. (The house and escape tunnel still survive!)

"Mention is made of this Genealogy in an effort to assist all of us in promoting Dartmouth's future, because the Dartmouth of each generation is a different Dartmouth each in its own way. Our Dartmouth was different than today's Dartmouth. While we might differ on matters of policy we wouldn't want it any other way because Dartmouth is and should always be our primary concern.

"Consequently, as President of all our Class I call upon all of you to support our College both presently and in the future like Dartmouth men of all generations 'whether in defeat or victory we are loyal just the same.'

Sincerely yours, Paul B. Urion '38 President"

Secretary, 64 Cormack Court Babylon, N. Y. 11702

Treasurer, The National Bank of Washington 7th & Pennsylvania Ave., N. W. Washington, D. C. 20004