Miscellany
The Rt. Rev. G. Bromley Oxnam, resident Bishop of the Methodist Church for the Washington area, was the guest preacher at Dartmouth on Sunday, October 11, at the first of the year's College Union Services in Rollins Chapel. Other visiting speakers during the month of October included Count Eigil Knuth, Danish arctic explorer, who gave an illustrated lecture on "Exploring Pearyland"; Lt. Col. H. Montgomery Hyde, British historian and army officer, whose talk on "British Policy in the United Nations" was a highlight of United Nations Week; Oscar Rosander, chief film editor of the United Nations, who brought films of Sweden and the U.N.; Parker T. Hart '33, who spoke on U.S. interests and policies in the Near East; and Prof. Merle Fainsod of Harvard, who gave two lectures on the Soviet Union.
Dartmouth's annual concert series will open November 5 with The Helsinki University Chorus. Also scheduled are Jorge Bolet, pianist, January 19; The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, February 12; The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, March 25; and William Warfield, baritone, April 29. Stan Kenton and his orchestra gave a pre-series concert on October 1.
Seniors in the Great Issues Course will hear Norman Thomas and Norris Cotton, U.S. Congressman from New Hampshire, speak on "Government for the People" in the first two Monday night lectures for November. Other guest lecturers up to Thanksgiving recess, which starts November 24, will be Robert Morris, chief counsel for the Senate Sub-Committee on Internal Security, and James Russell Wiggins, managing editor of The WashingtonPost, both of whom will speak on "Individual Freedom and National Security." Among last month's G.I. lecturers were: Marquis Childs, author and columnist; Ivor A. Richards, University Professor at Harvard; David Lilienthal, former head of TVA and the Atomic Energy Commission; T. V. Smith, Maxwell Professor of Citizenship and Philosophy at Syracuse University; and Arthur E. Sutherland, Professor of Law at Harvard.
Dartmouth continues to be rated a comparatively safe spot in case of an atomic war. The College has previously been chosen as the repository for copies of the Bible and for a complete microfilm duplicate of the millions of catalogue cards in the New York Public Library. Now the College has been chosen to safeguard bacteria named Leuconostoc mesenteroides. The bacteria are used to produce Dextran, a blood plasma substitute, tried in Korea and now being stock-piled for civilian and defense use. In event of atomic attack, life-saving plasma substitutes would be given wholesale to the injured population. Freeze-dried samples of the invaluable bacteria have been hermetically sealed in large glass bulbs, where they will keep indefinitely without special care.
¶ Occupants of South Fayerweather Hall are serving as the pleased guinea pigs in a new College policy of getting away from the same tan wall paint everywhere and using instead various colors such as might be found in the students' own homes. As this policy is extended to other dorms, the residents will be given a say as to what colors they would like.
Speaking of colors, those in the Orozco Murals in Baker Library can now be seen more clearly. New light fixtures illuminating the frescoes were specially developed
by the Thompson Engineering Company, Boston, to meet requirements specified by the Plant and Operations Department and the Art Department. Their installation, plus the relighting of the Tower Room alcoves and several levels of the stacks, substantially completes the project undertaken a year ago under a grant from the George F. Baker Trust.
The College this fall began publication of a new Official Weekly Bulletin, replacing the former Official Calendar. Printed on a large single sheet that fluctuates in size depending on the news of the week, the Bulletin carries a complete weekly program, comment on events, official notices, and general information of value to students and the community.
¶ Dartmouth students were given an athletic holiday for the Harvard game on October 24. They will get another on November 14, date of the Cornell game and Fall Houseparties.
