Dartmouth in Politics

The "Dartmouth in Politics" movement which was inaugurated in February, 1934, with an appeal to the alumni to help young graduates of the College get started in party work, is now being pushed ahead at Hanover through the cooperation of Palaeopitus with the Department of Political Science. The response to the article written for the ALUMNI MAGAZINE by Dr. Harold J. Tobin 'l7 of the Department of Political Science was surprisingly large, and although a good deal has been accomplished upon this foundation, efforts are now being made, through Palaeopitus, to interest a larger circle of Dartmouth undergraduates in the opportunities open through alumni contacts. When a definite group of interested students has been organized, the movement will again be carried to the alumni.

Supplementing this plan to interest Dartmouth undergraduates in politics and thereby to improve the personnel and functioning of the major political parties, the Department of Political Science is sponsoring a series of lectures by men who have had experience in practical politics. Francis W. H. Adams, former United States Attorney for the southern district of New York, has already talked to Dartmouth undergraduates on "Crooks, College Men, and Politics." James P. Casey, Tammany district leader, and Philip G. Bowker '23, who has fought the Curley machine in Boston, are scheduled to visit the Dartmouth campus within the next few weeks, and other speakers will appear during the remainder of the year.

In his appeal to the alumni for political contacts, Dr. Tobin wrote:

If the task of the college is granted to bethe preparation of its students to lead a fulland useful life, here would appear to be anundertaking which would aid in its fulfillment. If successful it might result in recruiting into party activities a group ofyoung people who would otherwise becomesimply routine voters, and in graduallyestablishing a higher level of political leadership.