Lecture Program

COORDINATION OF THE lecture program with the concert series and the dramatic productions of The Players has been effected at Dartmouth this fall, so that a major lecture, a concert, or a play will be offered every week of the college year. This plan has involved the creation of a centralized, student-faculty Committee on Lectures, which now handles the booking formerly done independently by faculty departments, campus organizations, and Junto, the liberal club hitherto most closely associated with the public lecture program.

A fundamental change in lecture policy has also been brought about, substituting a series of ten major lectures in place of a longer list of predominantly minor lectures. Olin Downes, music critic of TheNew York Times, and Major George Fielding Eliot, military expert, have already spoken at Dartmouth this fall. Six of the eight remaining lectures will be given by S. K. Ratcliffe, British journalist; Rabbi Morris Lazaron of Baltimore; John Mason Brown, drama critic of The NewYork World Telegram; Louis Adamic, author of My America and The Native's Return; Lewis Mumford, critic and author; and Holger Cahill, federal art projects director. In addition to this program the College will also sponsor the annual series of lectures on the Guernsey Center Moore Foundation. Visiting lecturers in some cases will spend a day or two at the College speaking to regular classes.

The concert series with which the lecture program dovetails will open on December 12 with Helen Jepson as artist. Other concerts include the Budapest String Quartet on January 12, the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra on February 13, Walter Gieseking on February 26, and the Eva Jessye Choir on March 19.