University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1913-05-14

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on great American Universities.)
There it is in a little out-of- -the-way
town among the hills of New Hamp-
shire. away from the world. away
g from everything except itself. But
it is Dartmouth and that means a lot
to the men who have attended there.
1t is not very big as colleges 20, and
it makes no pretense at being a uni
E versity. There are besides the COL
lege. a medical school, the Thayer
School of Civil Engineering, the Amos
Tuck School of Administration ana
Finance and the Chandler School of
Arts and Science.
The quality of men and not the
quantity has always been the aim of
Dartmouth. and it has always fur
nished a large share of the biggest
men of the nation-perhaps more
than any other school-frOm among
its few hundred students.
In the quality of MANDOLIN the |
production of strong energetic men
who go out and do things. Dart
mouth has produced its share and de-
serves the fame that has come to It.
There is something in the atmos-
phere. something in the traditions
around Dartmouth that makes for
strong men," said DIR. John Pickard
the other day. mo one can tell Just
why one college produces better men
than another. 1t is not in the cur
riculum or the requirements. 1t is
nothing tangible. and Dartmouth is
unique in possessing that quality" &
When Dartmouth Ran Burned.
Say Dartmouth" to a Dartmouth
man and you had just as we'll sit down
for he has something to tell you. And
he will talk to you of Dartmouth
days as long as you will listen. There J
are no more loyal alumni in the
world than those of Dartmouth.
Their slogan is "All We have, all the
time for Dartmouth" and they live
up to their motto. I;
A few years ago Dartmouth Hall, ..
one of the dormitories that had been a
for more than 100 years, =.
was burned. Before the fire was out g,
the Boston alumni had met, and a h,
new building of brick, modelled after
he old one, was soon started. 1t was sr
m old Dartmouth Hall that Doctor
Pickard spent his undergraduate
lays.
Dartmouth men built the Harvard
stadium. Dartmouth beat Harvard ~
hat year in football. Somewhere in :"
hat stadium is a tablet bearing the
core. No one except the builders "
nows where it is, but it is there as se
monument of the Dartmouth spirit. ue
No matter where in the world those On
raduates go. they always remember y"
heir alma mater. Wherever you ~
nd them. you find in spirit that "All u"
e have, all the time for Dartmouth" 'e
leet one of the alumni and talk to i
i'm. 1t has not been long since he sa!
as back and he will tell you he is Ill
anning to go again. pie
Hundreds of men from everywhere mu
at the alumni banquets each Mr.
'ar. Hundreds of men come back sou
attend the graduation exercises. rea
in the atmosphere, some hin
ing in the traditions, makes them um
yal. Perhaps it's that Dartmouth
irit which holds them.
Indifference Not Tolerated. ha'
Let freshman be as Indifferent i've
he may" said Doctor Pickard. "he 0on
ii do one of three things before he iea
there two weeks. He will leave of INC
own accord, he will be forced to e"'
i've or he will become a different au'
IN. Indifference will not be per- 'n'i
tied on that campus. If a man SUI
Mt boost he has no business there" ''a'
Tho unio,o sn;r;. 80 D., suit
e probably to the isolation of Han
ar, the town where it is situated. INTO
is remote in the hills near the YER add
mt line. Student activity-stu- ciuo
1t life-is the only life. Take 81
ay the college and you could not caus
q the town. The student body is like
all and each man knows his fel- sarc
IS and knows them intimately. advi
After I was graduated in 18S3," self
ltinued Doctor Pickard, Il met a thin
rvard man who boasted that he trem
Nv every man in his class. I Il
w every man in Dartmouth and can
did every other man. You see 1t YOU
J not possible to run down to Bos- man
or New York as it was at the other a ci
ools. When a man went there view
school he stayed. The student body ever,
small and when one Is pennod nm s.,n,