Dartmouth alumni magazine . h the great sovereigntyof the world in the positive and deter-mined effort to maintain the rule of jus-tice, order and peace. If a fellowshipwith this intent is to exist and we are notin and of it, where are we? If it shallnot exist because we took no sufficientpart in creating it, what answer shall wemake to history for the relapse of thenations by consequence into the state ofelemental warfare? Such is my response, too long and yettoo brief, to the injunction that we keepthe faith—the faith, that is, of the open,the courageous, the undistorted, the un-confused min
Dartmouth alumni magazine . h the great sovereigntyof the world in the positive and deter-mined effort to maintain the rule of jus-tice, order and peace. If a fellowshipwith this intent is to exist and we are notin and of it, where are we? If it shallnot exist because we took no sufficientpart in creating it, what answer shall wemake to history for the relapse of thenations by consequence into the state ofelemental warfare? Such is my response, too long and yettoo brief, to the injunction that we keepthe faith—the faith, that is, of the open,the courageous, the undistorted, the un-confused mind in the presence of greatissues as they arise. This is the poweras I apprehend, perhaps the greatest giftof our inheritance and the greatest dis-cipline of our citizenship, through whichwe as the sons of Dartmouth and as loyalcitizens of the state are tp strive to ful-fill the Unmanifest Destiny whetherof the College or of the nation. I am, in the fellowship of our sincerely and heartily,William Jewett Hood ()7Chief Engineer of the Southern Pacific Railway System WILLIAM HOOD 67 Chief Engineer of the Southern Pacific Railroad Lines By Professor Robert Fletcher, Direc tor Emeritus of the Thayer School If there is any one class of men morethan another of whom it may be said:By their works ye shall know them,it is the great class or confraternity ofengineers*. Impatient of talk, they aremen of deeds rather than words. Theirjoy in life is to plan and build and gaindominion over Nature according to theprimal command in Genesis. Only sixty years ago, just before thecivil war, the Rocky Mts. and greatAmerican desert, inhabited by hostileIndian tribes, separated the middle westfrom the Pacific slope. The nationmaintained a chain of- army posts alongthe shifting frontier of this vast do-main. Then the principal occupationof the U. S. army was to fight Indians,from the Canada line to Texas. TheFort Snelling massacre occurred duringthe war and the Custer m
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