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IN THIS ISSUE honoring the 175th anniversary of Dartmouth's founding, there is added to today's" news of the College and its alumni a panoramic survey of the background against which the institution grew and excerpts from the Charter on which it was founded.

The new and extended religious program which carries forward to a new generation a tradition of the teaching and application of religion established in the College by its founder, Eleazar Wheelock, is described by Professor Earl Cranston in the third feature article.

The December contents are:

Letters 4

Gradus Ad Pamassum 7

Books 8

Dartmouth's Charter 9

The First 175 years 11

The Founding Faith 15

Laureled Sons of Dartmouth 17

'Round the Girdled Earth 18

Dartmouth War Directory 19

Undergraduate Chair 20

With the DOC 21

Members of the Board 21

News of the College 22

With Big Green Teams 24

Club Notes 27

News from the Classes 31

In Memoriam 60

The Cover In a composite view of the historic and modern College, the recently photographed tower of Baker Library contrasts with the eighteenth-century buildings of the earliest known Dartmouth print (1790). We are indebted to the College Studio for the Baker photograph.