Today's Undergraduate
ANY ATTEMPT to portray the college student of today runs the danger of falling into easy generalizations that couldn't possibly apply to an entire student body. Just as silly as the penchant for typing college men according to the institutions they happen to attend is the public's readiness to believe that what one small segment of a student body might think or do is ipso facto characteristic of the entire college of which it is a part. Few persons make the effort to think of a student body as what it is a community of individuals not unlike any other human community.
Every Dartmouth class enters with tremendous variety and leaves the same way. The liberal arts college respects that individuality. A tightly knit student body such as Dartmouth's cannot fail, however, to go through the common experience of Hanover life with- out demonstrating some qualities that are highly representative even if not all-embracing. These qualities manifest themselves in spirit and in thinking as much as in day-by-day work and play. The growing maturity and sense of responsibility possessed by Dartmouth undergraduates is something the faculty and administration believe in and gladly talk about. And with all the individuality that is respected and encouraged, there is one mark that Dartmouth strives to put on every man—to make of him, as President Dickey phrases it, a "free-ranging mind in a man of goodwill."
In the picture story on the following pages we have tried to catch those things that are representative of the rank and file of Dartmouth undergraduates today. To anyone who has been in daily touch with these men, the main fear must be that the story will not do them justice.
His studies and classes come first . . .
His studies and classes come first . . .
He works . . . for money . . . but mostly for free . . .
He works . . . for money . . . but mostly for free . . .
He takes time out to relax and have fun . . .
He takes time out to relax and have fun . . .
He is liappiest when mixing with a group
He is liappiest when mixing with a group
He is liappiest when mixing with a group
But he likes to express himself as an individual
But he likes to express himself as an individual
But he likes to express himself as an individual
He wants responsibility for governing himself
He wants responsibility for governing himself
He wants responsibility for governing himself
And welcomes a place in the local community
And welcomes a place in the local community
And welcomes a place in the local community
SECRETARY-CHAIRMAN of the Class of 1951 is David M. Leslie of Minneapolis, author of the statement printed opposite.
TEACHING is the career that has been chosen by Harry L. McCaffrey '51 of Jackson Heights, N. Y.
GOVERNMENT SERVICE is the future planned by Richard J. H. Barnes '51 of Washington, D. C.
NAVAL SERVICE is immediately ahead for NROTC Captain Willard C. Rowe '51, New Bedford, Mass.
BUSINESS, choice of most June graduates, will attract Robert N. Kreidler '51 of Grosse lie, Mich.
LAW is the choice of Paul N. Wenger Jr. '51 of W. Hartford, Conn., who studies at Chicago next.
JOURNALISM is the career chosen by Elihu Ben Klein '51, whose home is in Riverdale, N. Y.
