The address of the president to the undergraduate body, which marks the opening of the college year at Hanover, has come to hold high interest also for the far wider circle of those who look to it as a striking exposition of the Dartmouth spirit and the Dartmouth view of current tendencies in education and in the national life.

To exercise the independence represented by doing one's own thinking, to match the sane mind with the sound body, to maintain a reverent spirit of religion--these were points emphasized by Dr. Hopkins in his counsel to the young men assembled before him. He warned them of the danger of "parrot thinking," the acceptance of plausible but misleading theories, such as often find exponents in any community; and while he spoke to an academic community, his words had application to a greater field. Certainly there have been few seasons in the national experience when the need of clear thinking and avoidance of a "parroted' philosophy has been more manifest.

Among all our colleges Dartmouth ranks high for a healthful virility that, somehow, suggests physical soundness as well as mental vigor. The president has recorded himself as among those who find a legitimate and happy union in the development of muscles as well as of brains in a college course. And again he touches upon a matter which student or non-student can find of equal concern. The loss of the race through lack of physical stamina of men who plan great works to carry them through to completion is, as he says, a convinceing argument. With a world-wide demand for leadership, it plainly behooves the world to do what it can to train its future leaders in a fashion to lessen, so far as may be, the handicap of the lagging body upon the mind that would go far on the road of progress. --Manchester Union.