Great Issues
THE SECOND YEAR of Dartmouth's "Great Issues" course will open on Saturday, October a, when President Dickey, again serving as director of the course, gives the opening lecture to an all-senior class of approximately 500 men.
Great Issues this year will follow the same general pattern of the opening year, with some change in emphasis and outline and with a good many new persons as guest lecturers. In addition to President Dickey, lecturers for the introductory section of the course will include Joseph Barnes, editor of the New York Star; Archibald MacLeish, formerly Assistant Secretary of State and Librarian of Congress, who gave the introductory lectures in the course last year; and John M. Clark '32, editor and publisher of The Claremont Eagle, formerly associated with the course as executive secretary.
The second section of Great Issues opening October 18 will deal with "Science and the Quality of Progress." Visiting scientists and members of the Dartmouth faculty will participate in giving lectures and leading the class discussions.
The Associate Director of Great Issues this year is William W. Ballard '28, Professor of Zoology, who has been granted leave from his regular teaching duties to fill this post with President Dickey. Richard W. Morin '24, Executive Officer of the College, is executive secretary of the course, and other members of the steering committee include Arthur E. Jensen, Professor of English; Dean William P. Kimball '28 of Thayer School; Alexander Laing '25, Assistant Librarian; Earl R. Sikes, Professor of Economics; and Louis L. Silverman, Professor of Mathematics on the Chandler Foundation.
Alexander Fanelli '42, who was assistant in the Public Affairs Laboratory last year, has been named Instructor in the Great Issues Course. He will also conduct special research projects in connection with the course. John H. Halpin Jr. '47, former research assistant with the National Institute of Public Affairs in Washington, will be an assistant in the Public Affairs Laboratory.
TWO KEY MEMBERS of the Steering Committee of the Great Issues Course, starting its second year, are (left) Prof. William W. Ballard '2B, associate director, and Richard W. Morin '24, executive secretary.
