MENTAL HYGIENE LECTURES

To most Dartmouth men it is probably not known that the first skilled psychiatric advice for undergraduates was offered here at Dartmouth back in 1921 under Dr. Arthur Ruggles and others. It has been suspended for the last three years awaiting time when one competent could be found to continue it. Dr. John M. Murray has been recently attached to the College staff as a consultant in this field.

The Dartmouth Christian Association and the College joined forces recently and presented a series of three lectures on Mental Hygiene, a non-technical presentation of the contemporary point of view toward problems of normal hygiene, as well as toward maladjustment as found in home, school, industry, and elsewhere. Lecturing were' Dr. George K. Pratt, assistant medical director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in New York, and Dr. Lloyd J. Thompson, head of the psychiatric staff at Yale. The lectures dwelt mostly with introductory material but were certainly a step toward further work of this nature.