What Answers Can Thinking Dartmouth Men Give to the Atomic Threat of Brutal Nihilism?

Undergraduates have been plying professors with questions about the atomic age. What can the faculty do to respond adequately to such pressure? It is an issue which presses greatly with so little time.

The ALUMNI MAGAZINE wanted to learn what on campus and in classroom is being done and said—not from just one point of view but from the humanistic, philosophic, and scientific. Three men were invited to contribute articles to a symposium.

Representing humanistic culture, Arthur McCandless Wilson, Professor of Biography and Government, believes that professors should throw away their catalogued stones of culture and speak out with passionate conviction. From the philosophic and religious point of view, Prof. Thomas S. K. Scott-Craig asserts that human unity overshadows political diversity and that the atom bomb can exist harmlessly. Dr. John Turkevich '2B of Princeton, who helped produce the atom bomb, relates its development to man's long search for more and more energy and finds that modern scientific success has created an unprecedented human problem.