University Forum

DARTMOUTH ALUMNI OF CLEVELAND TAKE PART IN COMMUNITY PROJECT

AN ENTERPRISE which is the first of its - kind to be instituted by college men and which may well be followed by other alumni groups is the University Forum Series of Lectures of Cleveland, Ohio. Inaugurated jointly by the alumni club leaders of Dartmouth, Amherst, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale, the Forum which has completed its second successful season invites well-known speakers to talk on questions of national and international importance once a week during the fall season. Two members of the Dartmouth faculty, Dr. Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture, and Professor Joseph L. McDonald of the Economics Department and Tuck School have so far participated in the Series, Dr. Chan speaking on "China Looks Ahead," and Professor McDonald on "Our Economic Relations with Latin America."

Growing originally out of an informal agreement whereby members of the college clubs in Cleveland pooled their faculty speakers, the Forum now consists of six lecturers chosen by a standing committee from a number of possibilities suggested by the various groups. Under a main topic such as "Can We Have Peace?" subjects related to this general theme are discussed. When Professor McDonald spoke, he had an audience of about four hundred; he was introduced by a Dartmouth man, and with an ex-Mayor of Cleveland as moderator, the discussion following his talk was both lively and informative*

Members of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland have given freely of their time and energy in their efforts to make the Forum a success. In the words of Arthur W. Todd, secretary of the Harvard Club of Cleveland, who is Forum Manager: "It is and has been to Dartmouth's great credit that the Dartmouth men have unhesitatingly backed this program to the limit at every opportunity." The present head of the Dartmouth Cleveland alumni is Lee Chilcote '3O.

A general admission price of $1.50 covers the Series, which is open to the public; or there is a charge of fifty cents for a single admission. Students are offered a special rate. The usual audience varies from 300 to 400 people. Next year it is hoped to integrate the Forum meetings with adult education groups wherever possible and so widen the aims of the organization which, though backed exclusively by college men, is for the benefit of the entire community.

The obstacles of getting a sizable crowd together in a widely spread-out city, on a night convenient to the majority of those interested; in arranging a program satisfactory both to lecturers and listeners; and in working out all the financial considerations involved, have not been easy problems to solve. The Cleveland college groups have done outstanding work in voluntarily shouldering the responsibility for this valuable undertaking and in making it a success.