Worcester County

Eighty-one members of the Worcester County Club gathered at Putnam & Thurston's in Worcester, Mass., March 30 for a dinner meeting at which Prof. Arthur M. Wilson of the Biography and Government Departments and former associate director of Dartmouth's renowned "Great Issues" course, was the principal speaker. Many undergraduates home on vacation were present.

President Frank L. Harrington '24 presided, and Secretary Donald G. Mix '21 and Treasurer Harry P. Midgley Jr. '40 were in charge of arrangements. Secretary Mix reported that while Dr. Lester J. Felton '19 of Worcester, better known to Dartmouth men as "Snake", was recovering slowly from a badly fractured leg, he was undoubtedly the world's worst patient.

Sidney C. Crawford, secretary of the Class of 1915, read a resolution on the recent death of Raymond F. Russell '15. Stressing the ability to evaluate events and personalities instead of the ability to assimilate facts as the big need in education today, Professor Wilson stated that at the end of World War II, education had become over specialized.

"There was a need for the study of things which are common to all educated civilized men," he said. "There was also a need to study the values of civilization." Because of this situation, he explained, the Great Issues course was conceived by President Dickey. He gave in detail the purpose, program and requirements of the course.

Motion pictures of the Dartmouth-Yale 1948 football games were shown. Head table guests in addition to Messrs. Wilson, Harrington, Crawford, and Mix were Judge James C.Donnelly '05 of the Massachusetts Superior Court and Thomas J. O'Connell '18, father of the now famous Worcester-Dartmouth O'Connell clan.

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