BOARD OF TRUSTEES CREATES OFFICE OF DEAN OF FRESHMEN

A new administrative office, that of Dean of Freshmen, has been established by the Board of Trustees, and will be in charge of Professor E. Gordon Bill, who was recently elected to the position. A Freshman Council, whose functions will be somewhat analagous to those of the Administration Committee, but whose province shall be wholly in the field of freshman affairs has also been elected. The purpose, in effect, of this change, is to treat the freshman class in all of its relationships as a separate administrative unit within the College.

This action has been taken in the conviction that the adjustments of the men transferring to college from preparatory school, or from home environments, offer particular problems which can be most advantageously studied and met by the College by assuming especial concern for this specific group of men and giving their affairs individual oversight.

The freshman year in college offers perhaps the most radical change in conditions of life and educational method that the average man encounters in the course of his experience with formal educational institutions. This is perhaps particularly marked in a group of men such as that which composes the freshman class at Dartmouth, which is drawn from so wide a geographical area and consequently from so many types of schools.

It is believed that in the projected change, and in the acceptance by Professor Bill of the newly established position, there will be a marked advantage for the individual man as well as distinct gain for the College in the quicker and more complete articulation which will be possible for the newcomer with life and college processes.