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I n 1804, as part of an erratic plot by Federalist extremists to cut New England and New York from the Union, Aaron Burr, their complacent tool, was nominated for Governor of New York. Alexander Hamilton denounced Burr's motives in no uncertain terms. Then Burr, giving vent to an insensate jealousy dating back to the Revolution, when his own brilliance was outdazzled by Hamilton's military, intellectual and social genius, eagerly challenged him.^ As T I M E would have reported the Burr-Hamilton duel, had T I M E been issued J u l y 16, 1804:

. . . Hamilton spent the night putting his house in order. At dawn, he, his second (Nathaniel Pendleton) and one Dr. William Hosack, were rowed from Manhattan to the Weehawken Palisades. It was hot, hazy. The river's oily swell made Mr. Pendleton sick, so Hamilton humorously held his head. Landing, they sought the well-secluded dueling ground not far above the river.

Burr and his second (William Van Ness) were clearing the summer's underbrush. Hamilton and Burr nodded each to the other with a pleasant "Good morning." While the seconds conferred, Hamilton stood gazing across the Hudson, where his family lay still

asleep. He was remembering his son's death on this very spot three years before at the hands of General Baker. Burr sat on a rock smoking a segar. Finally Pendleton asked: "Gentlemen, are you ready?" Burr rose. His beady eyes sparkled but his face was immobile. Pale but resolute, Hamilton took his post, his face a cameo against the green background. Pendleton handed each a loaded pistol. Again: "Gentlemen, are you ready?" "Present!" both replied. Burr fired on the instant. Hamilton rose slowly to his toes, clenched his hands, so unwittingly discharging his pistol, and fell heavily face downward. His bullet flew over Burr's head, clipped a cedar twig which fluttered to his shoulder.

Hamilton, agonizing, was carried to his boat. -He murmured: "Take good care of that pistol. It's undischarged. Pendleton knows I didn't intend to fire . . . "

So, in part, T I M E would have reported the fatal duel, noting also how Hamilton died the next day at the Greenwich Village home of William Bayard, how his burial in Trinity churchyard was a signal for an unprecedented o u t p o u r i n g of public grief. T I M E too would have shown how the duel brought Burr's political ruin in the East, turned his schemes toward Louisiana and Mexico.

Cultivated Americans, impatient with cheap sensationalism and windy bias, turn increasingly to publications edited in the historical spirit. These publications, fair-dealing, vigorously impartial, devote themselves to the public weal in the sense that they report what they see, serve no masters, fear no croups.

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TJARRY KIPKE, Blake Miller and l l Bud Hewitt will be on hand to help with the Alumni Golf Tournament, June 22. Send your entry to the alumni office now.

Listening In

THREE hundred a n d fifty alumni and friends of New York university recently gave a dinner at $1080.00 per plate, under the auspices of t h e New York University Centennial committee. The $1080.00-a-plate fee represented the approximate cost of r u n ning New York university for a single hour. Each table was set for twelve "hour men and women" whose combined dinner costs--totaling $12,960-- will pay t h e running costs of t h a t institution for a working university day of twelve hours. How many "hour men and women" has Michigan State?

SINCE Knute Rockne became football coach in .1917, Notre Dame h a s played 111 games, winning 92, losing 13. and tying six, the athletic department has revealed in the football annual recently released.

U j ESS t h a n one per cent of AmeriJLv can men are college graduates.

Yet out of this one per cent have come:

55% of our presidents, 36%, of t h e members of congress, 47% of t h e speakers of t h e house, 56% of the vice-presidents, 62% of the secretaries of state, 60% of t h e secretaries of t h e treasury, 69% of the justices of the supreme court."

U T T T H O e v e r heard of a meeting of VV college alumni to improve the

library, facilities? Whoever heard of a conference of alumni on t h e research problems of a university? Whoever heard of a meeting of alumni t h a t confined its discussions largely to the promotion of t h e moral a n d ethical a n d spiritual welfare of t h e student body? Whoever h e a r d of a meeting of alumni whose primary purpose was t h a t of improving scholarship within the institution? And yet these are the things

Established 1896

Member of the American Alumni Council Published for the alumni and former students of the Michigan State College by the

M. S. C. Association.

Published monthly throughout the year.

Membership in the M. S. C. Association, including subscription to THE RECORD,

$2.50 per year.

Unless members request a discontinuance before expiration of their memberships, it will

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Checks, drafts and money orders should be made payable to the M. S. C. Association.

Entered as second class matter at tha postoffice at East Lansing, Michigan.

GLEN O. STEWART, '11, Editor

GLADYS FRANKS, w*27, Alumni Recorder

THE M. S. C. ASSOCIATION

Union Memorial Building

OFFICERS--1928-29

Arthur C. MacKinnon, '95, President

G. V. Branch, '12, Vice-President

R. Bruce McPherson, '90, Treasurer Glen O. Stewart, '17, Secretary

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE E. E. Gallup, '96, Lansing, term expires 1930 ; Frances Kirk Patch, '14, East Lansing, term expires 1929; Earl E. Hotchin, '12, term expires 1931; Harris E. Thomas, '85,

Lansing, ex-offic'o ; E. W. Ranney, '00, Greenville, ex-officio ; Frank F. Rogers, '83, Lansing, ex-officio.

In This Issue

Editorial Comment..

A College Education Still Worth While--"I Worked My Way"--Fraternity House Taxation--Alumni Conscious

Chicago Alumni Enjoy Annual Club Banquet--Spartan Clubs

Alumni Find Oil Tints Expressive of Campus Beauty

Lt. Col. Sherburne to Leave in August--Waldo to Conduct European Drama Tour

"Close Beside the Winding Cedar"...

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Athletic Council Announces Spring Calendar.

Spring Sports Get Under Way

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that constitute the sole excuse for a college or a university."--President L. D. Coffman, University of Minnesota,

THERE is a rising feeling almost potent enough to be called a conviction t h a t m a n y alumni of m a n y colleges are intellectually competent and worthy of a closer and more equitable relationship with the college; that the college owes them a greater return for their interest; and for the developing of t h a t interest, for its own good, should build for the exchange of amenities a two-way street over which the alumnus could continue, after graduation, to receive certain services looking toward his intellectual preservation.--W. B. Shaw, U. of M.

When Solomon said, "In the multitude of counsellors there is safety," he was not thinking of questionnaires.

Forty-two per cent of t h e people who go to football games at Ann Arbor buy programs.

America has two-thirds of t h e world's telephones a n d four-fifths of the world's wrong numbers.--Northwestern Commerce.

Class reunions for June 22, Dix plan: '81, '82, '83, '84, '00, '01, '02, '03, '19, '20, '21, '22, '27, '28.

Five year classes, '79, '84, '89, '94, '04, '14, '19, '24.

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Cleveland, O., Allerton House Pittsburgh, Pa., Schenley

Columbus, O., Neil House

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If you travel to any extent you should have in your possession at all times an introduction card to the managers of Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels...It is yours for the asking...It assures courteous attention to your wants and an extra bit of consideration that frequently means much.

Your alumni association is participating in the Intercollegiate Alumni Hotel Plan and has a voice in its efforts and policies. At each alumni hotel is an index of resident alumni for your convenience in looking up friends when traveling. Other desirable features are included.

If you wish an introduction card to the managers of Intercollegiate Alumni Hotels, write to your Alumni Secretary or use the coupon.

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Editorial

A COLLEGE EDUCATION STILL WORTH WHILE--

PEOPLE sometimes wonder whether a college education in these standardized days is worth' while for everybody. A man who can merely read and write can get along fairly well in this machine age. Why all the struggle to get an education?

Those who happened to have business around the telegraph offices about Christmas time no doubt noticed the pamphlets containing "suggested forms for holiday greeting messages." If the customer could count up to sixteen, all he needed to do was to order by number, and the operator would send "My heart is with you at this glad season of t h e year" (No. 6 ) ; or "May all happiness be yours not only at Christmas but forever" (No. 2). There are also pamphlets on the counters telling you how to "cheer by telegraph." If the basketball team of good old McGoopus is having a critical game, "send a telegram. It will be delivered and read in the dressing room in a few minutes . . . " "Blank-Blank is behind you, rooting for victory," reads one of t h e ready-made messages. "Fight with everything you. have." etc., etc. Order by number.

Sets of memorial chimes are now available with paper rolls. "The press of a finger, the t u r n of a dial, and the chimes peal forth their lovely, golden throated melodies." There are radio sets that don't even have to be tuned in. Most movies can be understood by people with a mental age of ten years or less. Readycut little ship models for mantels, with all the pieces carefully numbered, can be tapped together about as readily by the dullard as by the cum laude A.B. You can get an "automatic" concertina with a music box concealed in it.

Nor do the arguments setting forth the financial advantages of a college education especially electrify us. We are told t h a t the average college graduate m a y earn $160,000 in his lifetime, as compared with $64,000 for the average elementary school graduate, but that, it seems to us, is not the big thing about a college education.

A college education develops a man's mind, teaches him to think hard, work hard, and play hard, multiplies his capabilities, helps him to m a k e t h e most of himself.

That's the big thing about a college education.

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