Demands of a Complex World

THERE HAVE ALWAYS been two schools of believers among the people who thought that a college education was a benefit. There was the man who always asserted that college studies, after all, were of far less importance than the other matters one came across on the campus: friendships, sport rivalries, the meeting of men from different environments, the realization of values of democracy. But another man who pointed to the brilliant accomplishments in after life of men who distinguished themselves in their studies felt just as strongly that the academic life was more valuable than the social. Both of these essential parts in the life of any institution of learning are . constantly in the midst of change, and at Dartmouth two distinct committees are investigating these changes with their constituencies eager to learn what their findings and recommendations, if any, may be.