THE SUMMER SESSION

The Summer Session opened with a total attendance, including students enrolled for the special two and three week courses and visitors (wives and children of members of faculty), of 264. Although the number of Dartmouth undergraduates attending has been greatly reduced by the war, the number of other students is practically as large as any year except 1916. The war has made it impossible for some of the Master's degree candidates to return this year and fewer than usual have registered. While the percentage of college graduates is not quite so large as last summer, the Summer Session continues to attract high school teachers and persons interested in summer work of at least collegiate grade. Fifty-three different colleges are represented. Seventy-four teachers in secondary schools and thirty-seven teachers in grammar schools are attending.

A rather unique phase of the Dartmouth Summer Session has been the undergraduate element. This summer the decreased number of undergraduates in the Session are aided by the one hundred college men taking the quartermaster work at the Tuck School and the men in the Military Training course, and all together give the college atmosphere to the campus, "hums," etc.

Among the visiting faculty are Don C. Bliss, '92, Superintendent of Schools at Montclair, N. J., who received the degree of Doctor of Pedagogy from Dartmouth this June; Jack R. Crawford of Yale; Henry Pratt Fairchild of Yale; William Scott' Ferguson of Harvard; Oscar Charles Gallagher, headmaster of the West Roxbury High School; Edgar Wallace Knight, Superintendent of Schools, Wake County, N. C.; Albert Harp Licklider of Williams; Miss Gertrude B. Manchester of the Normal School, Providence, R. I.; Miss Edna B. Manship of Wellesley; Mile. A. Cécile Réau of Vassar; Samuel Thurber of the Newton Technical High School; Francis G. Wadsworth, Agent for Elementary Education, Massachusetts Board of Education; and Karl Young, Chairman of the English Faculty, University of Wisconsin.

New courses in Education were added this year in an attempt to make the work more helpful to secondary school teachers, principals, and superintendents: Methods of Teaching in Secondary Schools, Junior High School, Measurements and Standard Tests.

Dramatic activities, with special emphasis laid on the practical opportunities offered the students in the indoor and outdoor plays, are again an important feature of the Session. The camps in the neighborhood are cooperating in the plays, making Hanover the center of dramatic activities. Special dramatic lectures are being given by Clayton Hamilton, Professor Curtis Hidden Page, and J. Milnor Dorey. The latter is coaching school children for a one-act play.

A series of war lectures are being given as follows: "War-time Gardens," by Prof. A. H. Chivers, "Psychology of the War," by Prof. H. T. Moore, "American Military History," by Prof. C. R. Lingley, "Military Sanitation," by Mr. Thorndike Saville.