Dartmouth College - Aegis Yearbook (Hanover, NH)

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jiior Picktfhin Harvard week-end again was an athletic holi- day and all ' Hangover ' headed for Boston. Over $50,000 in cash was withdrawn from the bank for the occasion. The Cn))isoti published a parody Dartmouth announcing the resignation of Coach McLaughry to be replaced by old Dick Harlow, former Harvard coach. Such an issue had no effect on the spirit and Dartmouth trounced Harvard 27 to 7. The college announced two financial gifts. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave $250,000 to the Ernest Martin Hopkins scholarship fund, and Enders M. Voorhees 21 donated $26,000 for establishment of Margaret M. Voorhees schol- arship fund. Despite the fact that gifts reached an all-time peak. Treasurer of the College, John Meek, predicted a $450,000 deficit for the current year. The Undergraduate Council continued to strengthen its campus prestige despite two large obstacles: lack of c]uorums for its meet- ings, and absence of strong student opinion regarding its actions. As soon as The Dartmouth began publishing the list of absentees, those who had been neglecting their duties began to attend more frecjuentlv. Too few students realized the accomplishments of the Council. Among these were: the commons dances, the Community Chest Drive, senior cane sales, the Keniholil Niehuhr H Lyman Bnsoii Hazel Scott Marian AnJenou The long cool shadows floating on the campus,

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actively in Dartmouth life. Two construction projects, a new theatre and an annex to Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, were the an- swers to two of some ot Hanover ' s greatest needs. The oft-spoken ideal of the international concern was manifested by Hanover ' s wel- coming of the Jarotskis, a displaced White Russian family from Estonia, and hv its tlving of the United Nations ' flag on Commons Corner. October 25th was the fifth anniversary of the United Nations. In tribute to this world organization, the college observed a minute of silence at noon. The pause occurred during a Great Issues ' discussion of the East-West con- flict, and most seniors couldn ' t help realizing how far reality was from the ideal. This was the fourth year of the Great Issues course. A survey taken by The Dartmouth re- vealed that, generally speaking, the seniors found it to be a good course, but with reserva- tion. Most men agreed that the subjects and speakers chosen by the steering committee were excellent, but that the contents of several speeches were elementary, obvious, and impersonal, lacking the subjectiveness of personal experience and opinion. However, speakers like Wilbur K. Jordan, Professors T. V. Smith and Kirkland, Vera Dean, Herbert Elliston, and Charles Malik were stimulating and fulfilled the purpose of the course. Great Issues had provided the seniors with a common intellectual experience and had taught them how to select and organize a valid opinion from the chaos of statistics, bias, and generalizations found in public media ot information, bur no one vet knew whether or not U.S. Steel had a lobbv in Congress. White Town: Picking up week-end guests Looking for pennies? Who can forget those hours that passed like dreams,

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Blood Drive, settlement of conduct problems, and the effort to inaugurate an honor system. The Post Office announced that mail service to dormitory rooms would be discontinued after Christmas vacation. Many students lost the opportunity for additional income when the hospital discontinued paying $20.00 a pint for blood. The Council voted to continue the Displaced Persons program. Many fitting tributes were made in The Dartmouth on the passing of George Bernard Shaw. Dartmouth beat Yale 7 to in torrents of rain at New Haven. The Dartmouth Christian Union sponsored a student religious conference to discuss the religious crisis in the 20th century. Undergraduates continued to receive greetings from Uncle Sam, and the traffic to Manchester for physical exams intensified. More men were now deliberating whether to enlist in a branch of their own choice or to complete the school year and risk being drafted into the arm v. The tenseness of the situation was increased bv the vacillating draft policy of Washington. In Korea, the Red Chinese were massing for an attack. In the United States, it was election day and the Republicans gained more power, but the campus was not aroused. The Dartmouth Bible, a new interpretation edited for the lavman bv Rov B. Chamberlain and Herman Feldman, was published. Eleven hundred dates graced the Hanover plain for Fall Houseparties and saw Dartmouth beat Columbia 14 to 1 . Twenty-one young French businessmen arrived at the Tuck School under a project sponsored by the ECA. When they left in March, they not onlv had learned some American business techniques but also had viewed American college social life. There was fierce fighting and a Red retreat from the Changjin Reservoir. President Conant of Harvard proposed Universal Military Training for all eighteen-year-olds to prevent disruption of college careers. Thirty-four seniors were elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and the Tuck Terrors won the intramural football championship in a final clash with Phi Psi. The Marriage of Figaro with only piano accompaniment was popular with light-opera lovers. The Dartmouth was severely criticized for its handling of the letter incident. Students, facultv, and alumni were enraged when an unsigned letter was published assailing General Mac- Arthur as a fascist and as the instigator of the Korean War. The Dartmouth asserted that since the writer was connected with the college, the name couldn ' t be revealed. The issue died when the editors began to defend themselves elaborately against an imaginary attack on their right to publish their own views and make their own mistakes. Time and again The Dartmouth tried to stir up campus interest m politics, civil rights, and liberalism. The articles on the Remington trial failed The drifting beauty where the twilight streams: