1929

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I wrote Black instead of Barto to start February's notes. Duke says a foot of snow and minus-ten wind chill belie his title of "Southern Stringer." More reporters like Duke would make this column great.

Leonard Doob is helping Brice Bourke '34 gather stories about professors Lew Stillwell and Jim MacKaye. Can you help? Len makes a strong case for researchers as teachers—no old notes, but new and living material for their classes. I'm gathering some of Len's and Maurie Mandelbaum's learned comments to send to President Freedman.

A1 Downing and others bemoan the WallStreet Journal story on changing "Men of Dartmouth." He's glad he "attended Dartmouth in days of Hoppy, Laycock, E. Gordon Bill, and even Spud Bray. They never can take that away from us."

Our Alumni Council voted to keep our alma mater and to offer a similar sounding version for those who want it. I'm on a Council task force who meet regularly and devotedly to find ways to bring the thoughts and experience of alumni to our trustees. I'll take today's Dartmouth.

Some academes see us alums as necessary sorts of bums Whom every year they have to bash to separate us from our cash. We rummage in our grubby fields of dividends and total yields While they in dignity pursue the nobler aims of their purview. But both of us are striving soon and late To keep our College and our Country great.