Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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oete xm veco nueA44J04i, 4x iXi-Ll in6, l ' ])!)!! the li ' alli (if KiilxTt ( ' . Slroiiji ' in the laic |)riii.u f 1!»4(), Stearns Morse ste])pe(l from his ])r(ifossorial chair in llic ICnj iish Department into the more uncomfortable seal of I ' rcshman Dean. In the fall of the same year, he became overseer of one of tlu- largest Freshman classes in the history of the College. . t the same time. .Mbert I. Dickerson ' . ' 50. Kxecnti e ()ftict-r of tile College, was appointed Director of . (linissions and assumed the unenviable responsibility of juggling the academic fate of ,)S()() api)licants in oriler to select (i. )0 of them for the class of lO.Jl. Tu a(lministrali c life, what is one department ' s loss is auolher de])artment ' s gain. ' liilc llie (ierinau department lamented the ])artial loss of Professor Ilerliert H. Sensening, who was assigned the cha irnianshii) of the Special Conmiillee of .Vcademic Adjust- ment on March 1. I!))- , the Classics de])artuienl welcomed the return of Professor William Stuart Messer. who had been serving as SCAA head since the connuittee ' s activation in .June. 1944. In 1941 Professor Messer became vice-chairman of the Com- mittee on Defense Instruction; and during the S -VI instructor shortage, he conducted classes in English, physics, and Greek. His resignation brought to an end a six-year string of important ad- minsitrative responsibilities in i)lanning and ilirecting various defense, war, and post-war programs for the College. I)i:iri Mcirsf Director of .Vrlmissioiis Dirkcrson S.C.A.A cli. ' irim ' s liiinils ' rro i )i%flu,. J

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AdinUUitnxAiiue leade nA, UiXi-uUle Dfaii NciilliiiKcr Wlicllicr scaled licliiiid liis desk (ir slaiidin ' al Ikiiiic ])lato, l.ldvd K. Xcidli!igiT. Dean ol ' I lie Dait iiioiilli family, is a potent I ' dicc ill llic litV of Dartiiiouth iiiidcrgradiiales. The latter role was |iaiiifnlly driven home to the opposition of the Friends of the Library hasehall nine, when Ihc iiii.uhty hal of the Dean cfimu ' cled for three siieeessive home runs. Dean Xeidlingcr also travels on nation-wide alumni tri])s as Darlmonth ' s ambassador of good will. This work includes, as well as numerous speeehes, social contact with many personalities, as is indicated by a well-known picture of the Dartmouth Dean seated contentedly hetwecu l.oretta Young ;ind Joan Bennett. Also located in Parkhurst Hall is the lair of the three housing bosses of Hanover: Robert D. Funkhouser, Halsey C. J dgerton, and Richard W. Olmsted. Funkhouser, as front man for the triiunvirate, took the brunt of complaints from married undergraduates who waited patiently and oflcn imiiatiently for the College ' s housing projects to emerge from their growing ]);uns into two modern developments — Wigwam ( ircle and Sachem Village. Working (jiiictly and efliciendy at his desk Mr. Fdgerton, Col- lege treasurer, drew uj) building contniets. while Olmsted com- pleted the trio as chief of the housing task force in the field, where he directed his buildings and grounds crew in the installation of heating facilities and other necessities of family living in Hanover. ' riicy pr(j(luc( ' l housing for niarrifd veterans , m

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A 6idLen IktieUectucd pjoce, a Your business liore is learning. In the spring of 1940 before a Convocation audience, almost half of whom were returned veterans, President John Sloan Dickey pointed the road that the post-war undergraduate would take in the peacetime College. The thousands of rejected applicants were mentioned in stressing the business of learning. You will find the jiace stiffer, the purpose sharper. The College recognizes the right of no man to be here, but after nuich effort and concern it has bet on each of you as being worthy of being here — that is, worthy of the business of learning. Pointing out that the new job ahead required daily surveillance. President Dickey warned that the business of learning is be- tween you and yourself every single day of the days ahead. The President emphasized the importance of the present Dart- mouth man in restoring and passing on from man to man College traditions which had been dulled during the war years. Entrusting to the undergraduate body the re.sponsil)ility of selecting what traditions were worthy to be passed on, Dartmouth ' s new adminis- trator stressed the importance of keeping tradition alive, because Dartmouth is a jiroduct of three thinj s; the past, what its men