GRADUS AD PARNASSUM

NEVER WAS THERE A MORE IMPRESSIVE series of Commencement events. With the week-end in early May it hardly seemed real. In place of heavy luxuriance of June foliage and the balmy softness of June evenings, there were very young green leaves on the campus elms and the Bema had just started to flower in its varied and protective display of youthful trees that have replaced the giants felled by the hurricane of four years ago It was a Commencement week-end more largely attended by parents and families and guests of seniors than ever before. Perhaps they wished to take full advantage of this opportunity to see their boy, and to see him receive his diploma Of the graduating class about 80% are now in uniform or will be within a few weeks.

Early in the week before Commence- ment, when seniors were entirely free of class room and examination requirements, we met a senior whose home is in a neigh- boring Vermont town "Why aren't you spending this vacation week at home?" we asked. "I came back to Hanover because I was homesick." .... On the morning after Commencement we found a graduate sitting on the Senior Fence, suitcases beside him. "I am taking a last look," he said.

DISTINGUISHED GUEST VISITS WITH THE PRESIDENTDr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambassador to the United States, spoke at the luncheon meeting ofseniors, fathers, and the faculty May 9. The following day he was awarded the honoraryDoctorate of Letters. Above, he talks with President Hopkins at Webster Hall.