Great Issues

The fourth year of Dartmouth's celebrated Great Issues Course opened September 28 with an organizational lecture by Prof. William A. Carter '20, course director. The first Monday night talk was given by President Dickey, who discussed "Liberal Arts and Great Issues." The President is still a member of the Great Issues steering committee, but active direction of the course, after its three-year experimental period, has now been delegated to Professor Carter and to Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, chairman of the steering committee, who served as director last year.

The first main section of the course this year is entitled "Great Issues: Their Forms and Forums." Guest speakers for it include John M. Clark '32, editor and publisher of the Claremont (N. H.) Eagle; Herbert B. Elliston, editor of The Washington Post; Cedric Foster '24, Yankee Network newscaster; T. V. Smith, Professor of Citizenship and Philosophy at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University; Llewellyn B. White, National Affairs Editor of The Reporter; and Lyman Bryson, counsellor for CBS and Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Speakers for the second main section, dealing with "The American Scene," are Dayton D. McKean, Professor of Government at Dartmouth; Isador Pickman, regional director of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union; Henry L. Duncombe, Assistant Dean of Tuck School; Enders M. Voorhees '14, Chairman of the Finance Committee of United States Steel Corporation; the Hon. George D. Aiken, United States Senator from Vermont; Albert W. Frey '20, Professor of Marketing at Tuck School; Dr. Roy Blough, member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers; and Dr. W. K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe College.

The influence of Dartmouth's Great Issues Course continues to spread in the college world. To the sizable list of institutions that have adopted courses patterned wholly or in part on the Dartmouth venture, the University of Texas was added this fall.