Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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Tribww. The campus spat at him and took a second look at the value of Great Issues. The College did not ignore the effect on alunmi and sent class representatives a bulletin relating the methods of McCor- mick ' s correspondent and a few of the facts about Great Issuer. Dart- mouth was attempting to stay alive and quite successfully resisted the gripe of the long dead Monster of the Midwest. Archibald MacLeish keynoted and closed the course, attempting to articulate its ideal. Geoffrey Crowther, Knglish economist, stat- ed a clear version of the Anglo- American alliance in the world ideological struggle. Francis Gram- lich presented a good statement of the psychoanal i;ic ideal of the na-

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J„h.. Sioon Dicker and inspiration. Could the President and the faculty lead and mold these students in this college and this coun- try into pursuing the democratic, humanistic ideal that was the Great Issues course ? It ill-behooved anyone to childishly whine at or make fun of the course. Like the United Nations, Great Issues was firmly established from urgent necessity. But it rested on an uncertain ideological sea . . . All Dartmouth seniors should meet for at least a year ' s time to face a common task and meet a common opportunity . . . but should Homer and Shakespeare be read, should one man teach the course, should its sub- ject be the history and destiny of man rather than his present situation, should more be said of the senior ' s hands, heart, and genitals, and less about his individual mind? Colonel Robert McCormick at- tacked the College, the President, and Great Issues in the news and editorial columns of his great Chicago ton Hermann,

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Geoffrey Crotcther TCWN AGAi Rep. Richard ISixon ture of man. Leon Keyserling, economic ad- viser to President Truman, offered himself as an exhibit of the frontier of planning in federal politics. George Kennan, high in the State Department, gave an inside view of relations with Russia. Sidney Hook, noted anti-com- munist philosopher, ranted against Russian political and ideological methods of conquest. Cord Meyer, youthful head of United World Federalists, called for world federation now. Clinton Golden, labor adviser to ECA, pi ' e- sented the position and goals of organized labor. The GI Steering Committee made the happy decision to allow student wives to attend lec- tures. They focused energy on maturing the atmosphere of the course . . . note-taking was abolished and hour exams made optional. There were many wishes for the f utme vitality of Great Issues. The work of the year was centered on three great issues: comnmnism vs. democracy; the ecological and political way to organize the globe; the nature and role of the individual. The winter was the warmest since the 1870 ' s. When the Christmas tree was lit in the center of the green and the Glee Club, nurses ' and childrens ' choirs sang the annual Christmas concert in packed Rollins Chapel, no snow was T r VA Sen. Ralph Flanders Rheinhold ISiebuhr