Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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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

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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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' iUoAAie i 4iu o4,e rr have been: the present, what its men are: and the future, what its men will he. The extent to wliieh these products become integrated depends upon the continuance of Dartmouth ' s traditions and the fashioning of Dartmouth ' s ])ur])ose. u men who are back from the war will undoubtedly demon- strate greater individual maturily. the President continued, and as greater social malurily is shown, tlic College will not be slow to recognize it. Disclosing the existence of a student-faculty committee which was examining the rules of the College. President Dickey promised a revision of the laws governing the undergraduate body as long as individual members demonstrate that .sense of community re- .sponsibility which will lead this coumiittec to recommend and the College to adopt rules of conduct and a system of government based w a high degree of social maturity. s- ? rf