. . . . TEKEL, UPHARSIN
This nascent interest in things beyond the immediate Dartmouth has also been fanned from within, so to speak, by means of the Orozco frescoes. Just what effect these will have, aesthetically and intellectually, no one at this time can predict. We agree with Mr. Goodrich, however, when he says that they must save some effect, just by the very fact that hundreds of students will perforce see them frequently when obtaining hooks at the reserve desk.
At present, the frescoes are not arousing too much intellectual excitement. We consider this rather a healthy thing. In other words, large sections of the student body see nothing very startling about indictments of our civilization. The idea that wars are useless, that modern education is largely sterile, that militant imperialism is "wrong," that modern religion has forgotten the Spirit, is apparently "old stuff" to them. And when the flaws of a system are so obvious to the young man living under it that they arouse no protest when depicted, then that system can be changed. Credit must certainly be extended the President and Trustees for allowing Orozco a free hand in his work. In the words of Miss Catherine Brier, New York artist, it took "courage and vision" to authorize such handwriting on the wall for all to see and heed.
