Senior Fellowships

Six juniors of the College—C. A. Anderson, W. D. Casseres, A. J. Epstein, J. B. Martin, Jr., J. M. O'Connor, and R. S. Oelman— have been elected to hold senior fellowships next year, according to announcement recently by President Hopkins after conference with the faculty committee designated to advise with him on the selection of senior fellows. The President and the committee made the selection from recommendations submitted by members of the faculty, undergraduates, and Palaeopitus.

The only requirement of the senior fellows is that they must be in residence at Dartmouth College during the academic year following their election and must throughout the year be in good standing as members of the College. During the tenure of their fellowships, they will be given complete freedom to pursue their studies in whatever manner and direction they choose. They will not be required to attend classes—although they will have the privilege of attending anyand they will not be required to take any examinations. They will pay no tuition fees to the College. At the end of the year of their fellowships, they will be given their degrees.

The senior fellowships were established last year, by vote of the trustees of the College, "in order that added stimulus may be given to the genuine spirit of scholarly attainment in undergraduate life and the cultural motives of the liberal arts college may be emphasized; and in order that the tendencies of the honors courses toward freedom from routine requirements may be carried to further development in the cases of men outstandingly competent to utilize such freedom; and further that illustration may be given in the undergraduate body that the acquisition of learning is made possible largely by individual search and in but minor degree by institutional coercion."

Anderson, who lives in Jamestown, N. Y., is one of the outstanding writers among the undergraduates. Casseres, whose home is in Cartago, Costa Rica, is president of the Round Table and has been interested in various athletic and other activities. Epstein, who is from New York, has been prominent as an undergraduate artist and his versatile talent has had few parallels among Dartmouth undergraduates. Martin, editor-inchief of The Dartmouth and holder of many class honors, is an outstanding man in his class in extracurricular activities, while he has maintained a scholastic average close to 4.0. He lives in Grand Rapids, Mich. O'Connor's chief extracurricular interest has been in dramatics, and he is considered one of the most finished undergraduate actors Dartmouth has produced. His home is in Salem, Mass. Oelman, who lives in Dayton, Ohio, is devoting his extracurricular interests to the presidency of The Arts and the city editorship of The Dartmouth. All of the Fellows are of superior scholarship.