The Undergraduate Chair

WHEN undergraduates returned to a snowless Hanover after vacation a majority scarcely had their bags unpacked before they crowded into Webster Hall to listen to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Richard Burgin in the absence of its leader, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky. The program began with a symphony of the late 18th century, Haydn's B-Flat, followed by two socalled "programme" pieces, the prelude to Act I of Wagner's Lohengrin and the tone poem of Von Juan of Richard Strauss, and climaxed by the Sibelius Fifth Symphony. In a review The Dartmouth mentioned that "The cultural isolation of which Hanover so often accuses itself breaks down on a few rare occasions. Last night was one of them It was one of the few 'great evenings' that this generation of Dartmouth men have seen or will see here."

Simultaneously with the opening of college came the opening of a new grocery store on Main street operated by the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc. The store, which is stocked with non-perishable goods, is conducted as a fivemonths' experiment, with the "profits" distributed to patrons in proportion to the volume of purchases made. It is unique principally because operated by Dartmouth professors, with an erstwhile Hanover high school teacher behind the counter. Although membership in the organization .... anyone who has purchased $5 worth of goods .... has so far been limited to townspeople and faculty, the venture stimulated considerable interest among Sociology majors and undergraduates in general.

HOCKEY TROPHY The Alexis Thompson Trophy whichDartmouth has a chance to win as amember of the newly formed InternationalIntercollegiate Hockey League.