Lectures and Concerts

ALTHOUGH the "Great Issues" lectures are not open to the Hanover public, the College Lecture Committee, headed by Prof. John V. Neale of the Speech department, has taken advantage of the visits of some of the distinguished speakers in the course to arrange public lectures for the following night. This was done in the case of Joseph Barnes, who opened the 1949-50 lecture series October 4 with a talk entitled "The Kremlin Has Problems Too!" Open lectures will also be given by Hodding Carter, on "The Hidden South," and Prof. T. V. Smith, on "Discipline in a Democracy."

Other speakers in the first-semester series are Maurice Rapf '35, former Hollywood screen writer; Count Byron de Prorok, director of Franco-American archaeological researches in North Africa; Bryn Hovde, head of the New School for Social Research; and Max Lerner, author.

Another major cultural offering for the year is a concert series that has local music-lovers more excited than usual. Opened by pianist Artur Rubinstein on October 27, the series also includes the original Don Cossacks, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, clarinetist Artie Shaw with the Juilliard String Quartet, and violinist Isaac Stern. COSO, handicapped by the limited seating capacity of Webster Hall, has been forced again to turn down several hundred applications for season tickets.

Also scheduled for October is a visit to Dartmouth by the Margaret Webster Shakespeare Company. During its oneday stand the troupe will present a matinee performance of The Taming of theShrew and an evening performance of Julius Caesar. The matinee will be an occasion for school children for miles around, and the same will be true of the extra "Pops" concert by the Indianapolis Symphony on Saturday morning, January 14. Events such as these, coupled with the year-round work of the Speakers Bureau, The Dartmouth Christian Union and other campus organizations, enable Dartmouth to play a helpful role in the community life of the North Country.