Fourth Hanover Holiday Program Announced
Dartmouth's Alumni College Plans Another Session With Lectures, Golf and Recreation for All HERBERT W. HILL CHAIRMAN, HANOVER HOLIDAY COMMITTEE
THIS YEAR THE HOLIDAY COMMITTEE is agreed it doesn't need quite as much space in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE to explain its aims and accomplishments. The editors, badgered by class secretaries for more and more room, will be relieved. Apparently the alumni are convinced that the Holiday is a splendid idea, and need only to be reminded to arrange for a few days in Hanover after Commencement. Certainly the response last year would indicate that, and the steady boosting of the institution by its graduates is a source of constant satisfaction to us. So far the agreement is unanimous that the double objective of getting back to Dartmouth for an intellectual refurbishment and an ideal vacation is above all criticism. If any further inducement is needed, the desirability might be pointed out of coming to the Holiday to find out what a representative group of the faculty is like.
The general program this June will follow that which has been so successful the last three years. The lectures we think will provide plenty of opportunity for the thought and discussion that has so far been the case, and will maintain that level described by one critical faculty member as a good deal higher than that of the usual highly advertised speakers who come to Hanover. The recreational side of the week will be well cared for, with all the seasonal sports, picnics, canoe trips, dances and so on. The airplane rides over Hanover can be provided only if Truman Metzel '23 flies east again this year. The tennis courts will be open to Holiday members without charge, and so will the college pool— (the last for the men; Dartmouth coeducation was started too late to make over the gymnasium). Additional plans are being made to care for the children and even more toys and slides are scheduled for the smaller group. All ages of the juniors will be looked out for all day long, under excellent care. The library, art gallery, museum, greenhouse and observatory will be open to everybody.
The Holiday will start on Monday, June 17th, the day after Commencement, with a lecture that evening, and one every morning and evening through Friday. A dance after Friday night's talk will close the formal part of the program, but the committee hopes that as many as possible will stay over the week-end, and for them promises a tennis tournament to play in or to watch, and a ski hut party on Saturday evening.
The main group of. lectures this year is based on some of the effects of the present international situation on the United States. Professor Anderson of course is one of the speakers; the series would be incomplete without him, and he will talk about the war in Europe. For a discussion of the background of the present American attitude to world affairs we have called on Professor Foley of the History Department, well and favorably known as a speaker and stimulating teacher to many of the alumni. The forced decline in many of our contacts with Europe has naturally turned the attention of travelers and business men elsewhere and a talk by Albert Carlson, Assistant Professor of Economic Geography, seemed so desirable that we asked him and found him primed on the economic possibilities of South America. We are fortunate this year in having Lloyd P. Rice, professor of Economics, just back from two years as economic adviser to the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Obviously his talk on the importance of the Philippines to the United States will be based upon unusual information. The last in this group turns to a discussion of what will happen to us all if isolation is no longer possible. Professor Harold Tobin, who has just finished a long study of the subject, will describe those war-time plans that have been characterized by one of our more vociferous senators as a "cloak for dictatorship."
Four more talks are planned. I confess to a strong desire to hear Professor Bancroft Brown on the theory of probabilities in "Pari-mutuels, Casinos, and Rackets." Do you know how best to load dice? It might be a good idea to find out. Several members of the Holiday last year pointed out forcibly that we were guilty of omitting a talk on music. That fault will be remedied by Professor Cobleigh, who with records and piano will make understandable some of the recent trends in musical composition. One of the most interesting changes at Dartmouth recently has been the appearance of an artist in residence, and Paul Sample will talk about what he is doing and how he is doing it. And finally Professor Allan Macdonald will discuss the literature produced by the war of 1914-18 with the various attitudes to war and the lessons learned from it, that have been brought out.
Naturally we think this is a splendid set of talks by excellent speakers, and in the belief that an even greater number of the alumni will think so too, we have been able to reduce the rates for the Holiday. For example, a double room and bath at the Inn will be $1.75 a day for each person, without meals, and $3.75 with meals, so that including the tuition fee of $5.00, the average cost will be 123.75 Monday through Saturday. Other rooms with tuition and meals included are from $21.00 to $27.50. These rates are only for the full period, and are made for five days this year instead of six as formerly. This was done to make a saving possible for those who were obliged to start back Saturday, but those who can stay for Sunday may do so at the same low daily rate. The Inn Coffee Shop will also be open, and other rooms in town are available. All in all, we are still convinced that nowhere is there more for the money than at the Hanover Holiday, and submit as additional proof the fact that more have signed up to come this year before the program was drawn up, than came in all three years ago.
THREE OF HANOVER HOLIDAY'S ALL-STAR CAST: ALLEN R. FOLEY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, ALLAN H. MACDONALD, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, AND BANCROFT H. BROWN, PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS.
