President's Plans

FOLLOWING AN INFORMAL address to the freshman class on the evening of September 29, President Hopkins left Hanover for his summer home in Manset, Me., to enjoy the first part of the leave of absence urged upon him by the Board of Trustees. He and Mrs. Hopkins remained at Manset for three weeks and then went to Boston to attend the Harvard-Dartmouth football game. He returned to Hanover to prepare for the annual fall meeting of the Board of Trustees on October 26. President Hopkins attended the inauguration of W. H. Cowley '24 as president of Hamilton College on October 29. His plans following this event were to return to Hanover for a number of appointments and other important duties.

In his talk to the freshman class, which held a belated convocation one week after College opened, President Hopkins declared that Dartmouth would endeavor to train its members to escape the ideologies which now engulf youth in the totalitarian states. The liberal college in the United States and Great Britain, he asserted, is the last front for the freedom of inquiry and the liberty which deny all ideologies. Dartmouth is participating in the fight against ideologies, President Hopkins said, through the geographic and economic distribution of its student body, through liberty of ideas in the classroom, and through the four years of experience which are the "Dartmouth religion."