Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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This was Dartmouth ' s 182nd year. To those who like to associate the college year with the immediate circumstances of the times, this was a critical year of indecision. But, to those who realize the inevitability of evolu- tionary change and adjustment, and who meet their new problems with forethought and stability, this was a normal year of progress. Every normal vear has its uniqueness, and this year was no exception. This was the year of the Great Debate on foreign policy, the McCarran Act and Red-baiting, the dis- patching of American troops to Europe in peacetime, the declaration of a National Emergency, the attempt upon the President ' s life, proposals for Universal Military Training of eighteen-year-olds, the Schuman Plan for European economic integration, the Kefauver Committee crime investigations. General Mac- Arthur ' s farewell speech to Congress in re- sponse to his discharge, the Stone of Scone incident, Selective Service inevitability, and, on the whole, greater international concern. The new problem, the Korean War, naturally affected each of the 2,813 students who re- turned to Hanover, hut it was no more critical nor unad instable than the obstacles met by men of Dartmouth at the beginning of several other years in the history of the college. Its degree of seriousness varied directly with each man ' s adjustment to it. The President of the College was frank and realistic in his Convocation Day address. The kevnote was Facing It. Mr. Dickey stressed the fact of facing front - there is no place to hide. These are days when men are judged and tried for size. So, in the shadow of an awful armed strife, the College opened its 182nd year, not without new obstacles and unique occurrences, but, traditionallv speak- ing, a normal year. Thus, set in an air a little less carefree and slightly more apprehen- sive, the traditional pattern of undergraduate life continued with only spurted manifestations of outside world influences. The bull sessions were just as vehement and inconclu- sive, the complaints about poor flicks and food were |ust as universal and uncorrected, the parties were ]ust as wild and stag, and the Dartmouth Spir- it was just as inculcated and Preparatioti for the Mtitterhorn No ivords to bear the hiirden of our praise;