AMONG OUR FEATURES this month we present a profile of Captain Damon E. Cummings, USN, commanding officer of the Dartmouth V-12 Unit. Entitled Dartmouth's Skipper, it begins on Page 9 and is written by Prof. Herbert W. Hill of the history department, who is director of the V-12 course on Naval History and Strategy. Also related to V-12 is Prof. Richard H. Goddard's The Nautical Life, another article in the series describing the required courses in the basic Navy program. It deals with Naval Organization and will be found on Page 13.
An article on the College Archives, From1769 to 1944, by Alice Pollard of the MAGAZINE staff, starts on Page 11; and The Stereoscope by Nickerson Rogers '31, co-director of Dartmouth's recent exhibition on three-dimensional photography, will be found on Page 19. Professor Richardson's series on the men for whom Dartmouth buildings are named continues this month with Lord and Gile Halls, beginning on Page 20. An appreciation of William K. Stewart, Dartmouth comparative literature professor who died recently, has been written by Prof. George L. Frost '21 of the English department, on Page 23.
Dartmouth War Directory is on Page 14; Laureled Sons of Dartmouth, 15; and 'Roundthe Girdled Earth, 17. A/S Robert B. Hodes '46 writes his last Undergraduate Chair on 22, and other regular features include Gradus, 7; Hanover Browsing, 10; Books, 12; News ofthe College, 24; and Big Green Teams, 26. Club and class notes start on 29 and In Memoriam on 61.
The Cover George Higgins' cover this month proves that the Senior Fence is as popular a roosting place as ever for spectators at the campus baseball games.