Miscellany

President Dickey's annual "state of the College" address was given at a meeting of the full faculty on October 4. The past year, the President said, was "a good year, with solid and continuing progress on all fronts." The need to press forward and seek better answers to many problems was emphasized, although "quick answers are not likely to be satisfactory answers," President Dickey warned. Relating the job of the College to the world situation, he also declared that there will be no quick victories on our side, but that there may be quick catastrophies.

On the lighter side, President Dickey recounted some of his experiences while matriculating the freshmen and told of the young man who wrote "Processor of English" where the blank asked for his father's occupation. "I see one thing we will have to work on in your case," said the President. The boy looked down at his blank and then sheepishly admitted, "Yes sir, my handwriting isn't very good."

Freshman prowess along different lines was demonstrated when the '54s won the campus tug-of-war from the sophomores and thus escaped the ignominy of beanies and other restrictions. The sophomores, in a mixture of peevishness and joie de vivre, turned the fire hose on the freshmen but succeeded mostly in wetting the onlookers

The sophomores, courted and patted on the back during this present period of fraternity rushing, will soon take on a menial status of their own. The Dartmouth has used rushing as the springboard for a series of editorials on fraternity life at Dartmouth, and has found very little to say on the plus side. "At a college like Dartmouth," declared The Daily D, "it doesn't make a hell of a difference whether a man joins a house or not. At least not in the overall perspective of things. So keep your perspective, and think twice and then think again."

A new chapter of the national fraternity Tau Epsilon Phi has been added to the Dartmouth fraternity scene. It has started off with a nucleus of upperclassmen and will probably give some inkling of its staying power in the October rushing competition

Also new in Hanover is a 250-watt commercial radio station, WTSL, which is part of the Granite State Network, affiliated in turn with the national Mutual chain. Located on the West Lebanon road, just south of town, the station will operate temporarily out of a special trailer equipped with a studio, turn tables, records and a business office, the whole presided over by Emil J. Popke Jr. '49 as station manager. The followers of Dartmouth's own WDBS have been wondering whether WTSL won't have an adverse effect on the college station, but John A. Gambling '51, head of the student staff, welcomes the new station and views it as a development of two-way benefit. Hanover, holding the dubious distinction of being one of the worst spots in New England for radio reception, will settle for a clear signal

With the transfer of the office of the Secretary of the College from Parkhurst to Crosby Hall, all those having Dartmouth alumni affairs as a primary responsibility are now together as a unit in Crosby. From his new spot in 204 Crosby, Sidney C. Hayward '26 can now maintain close-range direction not only of alumni activities but also of the Dartmouth Development Council and public relations. Mr. Hayward's former office in the Ad Building has been taken over by the Dean of the Faculty

Dartmouth College Films has given the past two months over to a frenzy of work in an effort to have ready by November 1 the newest Dartmouth movie, tentatively titled "My First Week at Dartmouth." The 12-minute film is intended to provide a general introduction to the College, as seen through the eyes of a newly arrived freshman. It has been planned as a companion film to precede "Dartmouth Outdoors," the highly successful sound and color movie of student activities outdoors in all four seasons. Five prints of the latter film have been in constant use since its release last year. Maurice Rapf '35, Norwich au thor who formerly was in Flollywood, has been scriptwriter, director and producer for "My First Week at Dartmouth," and Adrian Bouchard, college photographer, has again come through with some exceptional work behind the camera

The Dartmouth crew, it seems, was the most popular entry in the Henley Regatta in London this past summer. Maybe the College's English name and antecedents had something to do with it, but the London urchins who constantly trailed the Dartmouth crewmen did it simply because they thought they would be Indians.

"SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULNESS"