Hanover Broadcast

As PART OF HIS February 12 broadcast, Lowell Thomas, in Hanover for the Dartmouth Carnival, interviewed President Dickey about the Hopkins Center and the Great Issues Course. With regard to the Center, President Dickey stated:

The Hopkins Center when built will provide Dartmouth with a modern auditorium which will house her entire student body. The undergraduate college, as you know, Lowell, is above all things a community. And if such a college is to do its full job, it requires adequate facilities for those activities of learning, living, and entertainment such as music and the drama in which 3,000 men can participate together. That's the real meaning of this project. With it will come facilities for the use of modern aids to education such as the radio, the motion picture, and soon, television. No man yet knows the full part, I suppose, that such facilities will play in bringing the world to the campus and the campus to the world, but we at Dartmouth are prepared to believe that this will be an indispensable part of the educational system of the future and we want to be ready for it.

After hearing President Dickey describe the essentials of the Great Issues Course, Mr. Thomas said, "That sounds like a liberal education in itself," to which President Dickey replied:

Well, I might add that the Great Issues Course is not a substitute for a liberal arts education. It's just one course out of five in a man's senior year, after he's acquired some knowledge and, hopefully, enough taste for thinking to give him the wherewithal to begin to see life wholly and calmly, one of the goals of the educated man who is willing to play his part in a world where purpose and effort really do count.

35 OF 1918'S 44 STUDENT SONS TURNED OUT FOR THIS GROUP PICTURE LAST MONTH. FOR FULL LIST OF SONS SEE COLUMN 3 ABOVE.