History Boom

A MONO THE FIRST war booms experienced in this country as a result of the European conflict was that of the history department at Dartmouth, where students caused extra work for the registrar by dropping courses selected last spring and substituting those on war, propaganda, and modern European history.

Prof. Frank Maloy Anderson, famed beyond the Dartmouth campus as an authority on modern Europe and as a member of President Wilson's peace commission, had enrollment increases of more than 20% in his two courses, "Europe Since 1920" and "History of European Diplomacy." The department's course on the military history of the United States, inaugurated this semester by Prof. Lewis D. Stilwell, who testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last May, also found itself the center of greater student interest. This course and Prof. Michael E. Choukas' course on propaganda and public opinion each attracted a 10% increase in enrollment.