Hopkins Writes Lowell on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday--Dartmouth Head Warm in His Praise of President

The following letter from President Hopkins to President Lowell arrived too late to be included in the Crimson of Monday, President Lowell's birthday. It is now printed without comment. December, 13, 1926.

Dear Mr. Lowell:

We still maintain many characteristics of the small village in Hanover, and among these I should reckon the telegraph hours on Sunday.

The middle of last evening I received from "The Crimson" a message, undoubtedly delayed, calling my attention to the fact that today was your birthday, and kindly offering me the privilege of "The Crimson" column to make statement in regard to this. Unfortunately for me, the message arrived to late for me to make reply. However, if reply had been made, it would have been entirely impossible for me to do justice to my own feelings in the matter.

As I have written to you before, my own sense of obligation to your is for the encouragement and kindly assistance which you have always given to me at every point and for your generous consideration of the needs and difficulties of other men at points where your experience or your great wisdom may be brought to bear to help them.

It is unfortunately not easy, and I do not even know that it is possible, to put this sort of appreciation and thankfulness into words. I will only reassert how strongly I feel it.

Eminent in the guild of college presidents for the distinction of your scholarship and for the breadth and keenness of your vision, as well as for your record of accomplishment, you add the all embracing gift of "charity" which the Apostle stated to be so essential to the fruitful life.

May I, therefore, officially as the President of Dartmouth, and unofficially as one to whom you have been an inspiration, congratulate you on this day of celebration for the significance of your own life and influence upon those without the Harvard circle as well as the host of those within.   Most sincerely yours,   (Signed) ERNEST M. HOPKINS.