Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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In the only important change in President Dickey ' s administrative house, Halsey Edger- ton was replaced by John Meek as Treasurer. Admissions were still tight. Only 14% of the apphcants were accepted. College funds were short . . . tuition was raised to $675.00 and the Alumni Fund became more vital to the Col- lege ' s economy. $1,600,000 had been raised for the Hopkins Memorial Center, but it occu- pied little of the community ' s attention. The addition to Wilder Physics building was large- ly completed. Thayer School, recently ex- panded into mechanical, electrical, and business engineering, held a flashy open house to show its machines to the public. The Medical School could admit only a small fraction of its appli- cants. Tuck School was packed as students continued their attempt to serve part of their business apprentice period in the pleasant sur- roundings of Hanover. The Daily Dartmouth ' s front page and sports page wgrg good. The editorial page made little stir in campus conversation. This was not a year in which the paper carried many mill l % lllll|M,ltll

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Rochester and Baltimore symphonies, the Shaw and De Paur choral groups, Gunnar .lohannsen pianist, and Iva Kitchell. dancer. Chamber music and ballet were still too highbrow for general interest. r i i. u . A few people painted under Paul Sample and a few more were grateful for the Carpenter Art exhibits The lecture series had lost much of its thunder to Great Issues. Max Schoen. new- comer to the PsychologA ' Department, gave a T.»wer Room talk on The Psychologist Looks at Jesus Eugen Rosenstock-Heussv talked all year long on Jesus Looks at the Psychologist, among other things, and made the more Important contribution to the student ' s idea of what was important for the existence of men.

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Herbert F. Wett fiery torches. It still fulfilled more regular responsibility than any other campus organization, but did so in a less remarkable way than usual. The Aegis attempted to keep from dying at the hands of high costs and low circulation. Copies were put into the hands of a third of the students, The book was becoming more of a chronicle of the year and less a class book. Jocko broke a lance with Col. Mc- Cormick in their aimual parody issue. It bound a fall i.ssue in red and sold it to unsuspecting Harvard dupes as the Lampoon. The magazine was dirtier than ever, occasionally funny. It was a lilac cockadoo, a friendly household ol)ject. Neither Jocko nor alcohol pretended to stand for Dartmouth. They were both happily and right- fully absorbed. WDBS made increasing noise on the campus .scene. Several forums on controversial subjects showed that the station was now and then alive. Maurice F. Lottfthursl John W. Finch