Postwar Majors

MARKING OUT A NEW and not unexpected line of emphasis in Dartmouth's postwar liberal arts curriculum, President Hopkins has announced that the College will offer two new Divisional Majors in International Relations and Public Administration, both to be given within the Division of the Social Sciences.

Dr. John Pelenyi, former Hungarian Minister to the United States and now Professor of Government at Dartmouth, has been named by President Hopkins to head the international relations major, and Russell R. Larmon '19, Professor of Administration on the Benjamin Ames Kimball Foundation, has been appointed chairman of the public administration program. Professor Larmon returned to his faculty duties this term after serving for two years as Director of OPA for the State of New Hampshire.

The new majors, devised and approved by the Division of the Social Sciences, have an indefinite starting date and remain to be worked out in detail. They will be inter-departmental in character and will have separate staffs drawn largely from the existing social science departments. Enrollment in the majors will be limited to men with above-average grades in the social sciences and with "a positive personal interest" in the two fields of study. The recommendations made by the Division and approved by the Committee on Educational Policy call for 48 semester hours of work in each major, a comprehensive examination at the end of senior year, and a nucleus of required work, of which at least six semester hours must be coordination work.

Dartmouth's latest move to expand work in the international and governmental fields combines with earlier faculty action to indicate the College's awareness of changing postwar responsibilities and also its expectation of greatly increased student interest in the international and governmental fields.

Professor Pelenyi, who heads the international relations program, has had a long career in the consular and diplomatic services and has an unusual first-hand knowledge of international affairs. Professor Larmon has taught administration at Dartmouth since 1926 and has served the State of New Hampshire in a number of important posts.