DINNER SESSION
The first after-dinner speaker was Professor H. E. B. Speight of the Department of Philosophy who will soon take up work in the Department of Biography. Although comparatively a new comer at Dartmouth he has entered so fully into the life of the College that his remarks on the impressions of two years were most illuminating. He recognized that students are more articulate at the present time, if not more critical, and that a new technique is desirable in education. Dartmouth realizes that it must keep in touch with tradition to produce the best results and that idealism must be emphasized in building good will. The process is apparently already under way of breaking down compartments in education and increasing cooperation to effect the desired goal of educating for life and forming character.
A surprise speaker on the program was Captain Harry F. Lyon 'OB, the navigator of the Southern Cross on its recent flight to Australia. He had been in Hanover for some days addressing various groups and held the close attention of the secretaries in his vivid account of the record breaking flight of last year.
The third speaker was Carl B. Spaeth '29, who gave the secretaries some insight into what the undergraduates are thinking of. Among the points in his discussion was consideration of the honors system recently adopted in the College and the general satisfaction with it, although this was clouded with some doubt as to whether all students are yet ready for so much freedom. He also advocated the development of intramural sports and deprecated the cynicism among undergraduates toward old traditions.
The final speaker of the evening was Dean Craven Laycock who described the progress of the College during the last year, stressing particularly the recent gift to the Tuck School. He visualized the college growth and expanding assets by comparisons of the college budget and the college endowment of 1892-93 when he entered Dartmouth, with that of the present time. He also recognized a certain lack of spontaneity among the undergraduates which had been referred to by Mr. Spaeth and told of some of the problems of the college administrator's work, but the ready response of the great mass of students made such work a joy and satisfaction despite its perplexities and anxieties.
ALLAN M. CATE is the member of the Alumni Council recently elected by the Secretaries Association. He received the degree of B.S. in 1920 and M.C.S. in 1921, and for two years subsequent to his graduation was an instructor in Business Organization in the Tuck School. During the war he served as a seaman in the United States navy. Since leaving Hanover he has been connected with the L. E. Knott Apparatus Company of Boston, and is now manager of their New York office. He was recently elected a director of the Hardware Products Company of Boston.
