Miscellany

The Great Issues lecture by Nelson Rockefeller '30, scheduled some months ago, turned out to be nicely timed when he delivered it on March 19. His Dartmouth talk on Point 4 was his first major discussion of the report submitted to President Truman shortly before by the International Development Advisory Board, headed by Mr. Rockefeller. Although the lecture and class discussion were open only to seniors and faculty members, The NewYork Times used the interview method to run a full column on the views Mr. Rockefeller expressed at Dartmouth.

The week before, the Great Issues course heard Charles Malik, Minister to the United States from Lebanon. During his visit Mr. Malik made a point of taking pictures of that other famous Lebanon to send back home to the president of his country.

In this year's College Chest Fund drive, Dartmouth students raised slightly more than $9,000 for charitable distribution to a number of out-of-town agencies and to the Mary Hitchcock Hospital. Theta Delta Chi led the fraternities with an average gift of $5.27 and Middle Fayer topped the dorms with a $4.70 average. Theta Delta Chi also won honors in the annual Interfraternity Play Contest, along with Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Lambda Phi and Psi Upsilon.

The Dartmouth does not invariably achieve that lucidity which is the hallmark of good journalism. One issue this past month elicited the following tongue-in-cheek congratulations from Prof. John H. Wolfenden of the Chemistry Department:

"For some time I have regarded the news- paper headline as the greatest single obstacle to political wisdom and civic maturity. No comparable incentive to snap judgment, half- baked opinion and cerebration per viscera ex- ists in the modern world. It is accordingly with deep pleasure that I welcome The Dart-mouth as an ally. Under the main heading today "Marshall Asks Service at 18" runs the sub-heading "Inter College and Work Plan Invokes Educators." This last line has no ascertainable meaning. To make headlines unintelligible is performing almost as great a service to the world as to abolish them en- tirely. Please permit me to express the grati- tude of all members of the Society for the Abolition of Headlines."

Bouchard LATE WINTER TWILIGHT, LOOKING WEST ACROSS THE CAMPUS