No Dull Moments

The past month has been about as busy a period as the college year ever produces. The printed official calendar has appeared with very little white space, and the columns of The Dartmouth have carried a multitude of stories about meetings, lectures, concerts, tryouts, D.O.C. trips, films, exhibitions, intramurals, plays and the like. With the Harvard and Yale games falling in the same period, there has also been much coming and going. An athletic holiday on Saturday encouraged the whole student body to indulge in the annual Harvard peerade, in anticipation of which the Crimson Key thoughtfully sent up to Hanover a stack of mimeographed guides for the weekend, providing a map and a schedule of Boston events and listing recommended spots for dining, dancing, flowers and refreshments.

The exodus to the Yale game was offset to some extent by the arrival in Hanover that weekend of two regional student conferences, one drawing nearly 150 students from 40 colleges and universities to the Northern New England assembly of the National Student Association, and the other bringing together delegates from 14 Connecticut Valley colleges as part of the Student Christian Movement in New England.

One of the top Hanover events of the past month was the opening of the concert season November 15 with the New England Opera Theater's presentation of The Marriage of Figaro. Also coming to Webster Hall in this year's series are the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Marian Anderson, contralto, Richard DyerBennett, folk singer, and Luboshutz and Nemenoff, duo-pianists. Once again COSO had to turn back hundreds of requests for season tickets.

The College Lecture Series also got under way in late October when Lyman Bryson, Professor of Education at Columbia and counsellor for CBS, spoke on "Mass Media and Adult Education." Other firstsemester lecturers will be Lowell Thomas Jr.'46, who will show movies and tell of his trip to Tibet with his father, and John Mason Brown, drama critic, whose subject is taken from his magazine column, "Seeing Things."