THE COLLEGE

We Start off this month with a note on the state of Dartmouth's cultural health. The facts speak for themselves.

Two weeks in advance of a poetry reading by Robert Frost '96, scheduled for the evening of November 27, the College announced to students and faculty that admission, although free, would be by ticket only and that the 600-odd seats in 105 Dartmouth Hall would be assigned in the order in which application cards were received. Applications flooded in—to the total of 1800. The location of the poetry reading was switched to Webster Hall, which has a maximum capacity of 1500 persons, and, the College regretfully announced that it would not be possible to accommodate 300 persons who wanted to hear America's greatest living poet read his works.

We may be wrong, but we doubt that Dartmouth has ever before paid such numerical tribute to a poet.

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