Undergraduate Profile

THE EDITORS have chosen an undergraduate as the subject of the biographical sketch in this issue, continuing the series of Hanover profiles. Every effort was made to locate a representative member of the senior class. We don't claim Bill Daniels is typical or average. We simply believe he's a first-rate representative of the class of 1940, and of the undergraduate body.

The able job of candid journalism done by the director of the College news service, Charles E. Widmayer '3O (who is also our associate editor), provides readers with an excellent cross-section of student life and attitudes. Mr. Widmayer knows Dartmouth. He has his own extensive background of information to draw upon, but he is successful in holding the story entirely to Bill Daniels, who is no fiction, but a real honest to goodness senior, in the flesh—meet him.

We have wanted before this, and delay no longer, to speak of Charlie Widmayer's intelligent attack on the problem of balanced publicity, or public information, about the College. He has followed a regular publication schedule with his new clip-sheet called "News from Dartmouth." This is sent to several hundred editorsof papers, magazines, and radio programs. The news and comment carried therein is meant to interpret the educational program of the College, without any emphasis at all on athletic or outdoor activity. Dartmouth needs to mean something to people, who are not familiar with it, beyond the traditions of a ski, snow-covered pine tree, or a he-man with hair on his chest. The public must have labels, and these are convenient tags hitched to Dartmouth. Mr. Widmayer's work is important and timely. It is already bringing results in the press of the country and should be increasingly productive over a period of time.