Hanover Holiday

THE full program of ten lectures for the third annual Hanover Holiday on June 19-24 has been completed with the announcement that Ralph E. Flanders '32h of Springfield, Vt., will speak before the Alumni College on "The Diseases of Capitalism." Mr. Flanders, a widely known engineer and business executive, is a member of the Republican National Program Committee of 100 and a former member of the Business Advisory Council of the Department of Commerce.

Although he never attended college, Mr. Flanders has received honorary engineering and science degrees from a number of colleges, including Middlebury and Vermont, and has received from Dartmouth the honorary degree of Master o£ Arts. He is a member of the corporation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a trustee of Norwich University. Mr. Flanders became director and manager of the Jones and Lamson Machine Company, Springfield, Vt., in 191 a, and has been president of the firm since 1933. A progressive Republican, he has won a wide reputation for his successful handling of labor, has written and lectured widely, and has served on numerous government boards and advisory groups, among them the Social Science Research Council from 1932 to 1936.

The other Hanover Holiday speakers, and their recently announced topics, will be Prof. Frank Maloy Anderson of the History department, "If War Comes"; Prof. Michael E. Choukas '27 of the Sociology department, "Propaganda and the Modern World"; Prof. Malcolm Keir of the Economics department, "What Divides Labor?"; Prof. James D. McCallum of the English department, "The Novelists Try Their Hands at Reform"; Prof. Joseph L. McDonald of the Economics department, "The Economic Foreign Policy of the United States"; Prof. Alexander Meiklejohn of the Philosophy department, "The American Tradition of Liberty—For Whom?"; Prof. Artemas Packard of the Art department, "The Arts in the Liberal College"; Prof. W. Benfield Pressey of the English department, "The Motion Picture"; and Prof. Andrew J. Scarlett Jr. 'lO of the Chemistry department, "The Plastic Age."

In connection with his lecture on "The Plastic Age," Professor Scarlett has been collecting plastic materials with the aid of Dr. John C. Woodhouse '3l, who has been working on the development of transparent Lucite for the duPont Ammonia Corporation in Wilmington, Del. He will also have for his lecture a large duPont exhibit made available through Mr. William A. Hart of Wilmington, father of William A. Hart Jr. '42.

A tuition fee of $5.00 has been set for the series of ten lectures, which opens the Monday evening after Commencement. In connection with the Alumni College, the Hanover Inn has announced special Monday-to-Sunday rates of less than $3O per person, covering room, meals, and tuition. Also included in the Inn rate is the Saturday night dance with which the Hanover Holiday program will close. The directors of the program have made ample allowance for recreation during the week. A sports feature of the week-end will be the Twin State Tennis Tournament, which is expected to draw an expert field of players to Hanover on June 16-18.

To DESCRIBE PLASTIC AGE Prof. Andrew J. Scarlett '10 of the Chemistry department is scheduled to give oneof the most interesting of the HanoverHoliday lectures in June. He will discuss"The Plastic Age " supplementing his talkwith exhibits of new duPont discoveries.