Miscellany
ROBERT FROST '96 returns to the College December 1 to give a poetry reading that has become an annual pilgrimage for an ever-increasing number of admirers from Hanover and outlying communities. Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities at Dartmouth from 1943 through 1949 and Visiting Fellow in the Humanities from 1949 through 1951, Robert Frost has always been a speaker before overflowing audiences. Given first in the Tower Room in Baker Library, his readings proved so popular that they were transferred to 105 Dartmouth Hall. This move succeeded in increasing rather than accommodating the audiences, and for the last three years, Mr. Frost has given his readings in Webster Hall, where the audience again would be too large for the hall if the College did not issue free tickets in advance to those who apply in time. Not only has Robert Frost proved to be popular with those who want to see as well as hear him; he has gained a sizable number of WDBS listeners, who relish his characteristic sotto voce asides, often lost in a big lecture hall.
The College last month inaugurated a series of Vesper Music programs in Rollins Chapel, scheduled three afternoons each week from 5 to 5:20 and designed to give members of the College community a chance for quiet thinking and relaxation while listening to good music. Maurice FLonghurst, Professor of Music Emeritus, is in charge of the programs and himself played the organ for several of the vesper periods. Mrs. Arthur O. Davidson, contralto, and Prof. James A. Sykes, pianist, also were soloists. The idea of the Vesper Music programs harks back to the popular "Exam Recitals" given some years ago as a calming influence during the ordeal of final exams. Professor Chamberlin, chapel director, and Professors Sykes and Zeller of the Music Department are on the directing committee with Professor Longhurst.
An additional Dartmouth dormitory is expected to be available next semester through the remodeling of Clark School's Alumni Hall on North Main Street, one of the properties recently acquired by the College through purchase from the Cardigan Mountain School. The building will house thirty to thirty-five students and will make it possible for the College to discontinue using Brewster House, on South College Street, as a dormitory and to return it to employees of the Hanover Inn and Dartmouth Dining Association.
A safe driving clinic, the first of its kind under the joint sponsorship of college undergraduates and state officials, was held on the Dartmouth campus on November 19. With the Undergraduate Council and the New Hampshire Motor Vehicle Department backing it, the clinic included a series of driver aptitude tests and various demonstrations of highway safety equipment. New Hampshire's Motor Vehicle Commissioner Frederick N. Clarke was present with a team of inspectors from his department.
The woman's touch is being sought by the Dartmouth Outing Club for the center-of-campus ice statue that will keynote the 44th annual Winter Carnival on February 5-7. The D.O.C. Features Department has extended an invitation to the women's colleges to submit designs in the statue competition. "The winner," said the announcement, "should be prepared to come to Carnival as the guest of the Outing Club."
Following is a schedule of alumni and other Hanover events for the first half of 1954: January 8-9, Trustee Meeting. January 15-16, Alumni Fund Class Agent Clinics. January 29-30, Alumni Council Meeting (Chicago). February 5-6, Winter Carnival. February 19-20, Class of 1914 Reunion. February 26-27, Freshman Fathers Weekend, March 12-13, Classes of 1922 and 1923 Reunions. March 27-April 12, Spring Recess. April 23-24, Trustee Meeting. April 30-May 1, Dartmouth Alumni Officers Annual Meetings. May 7-8, Green Key Weekend. June 5, Thayer School Overseers Meeting. June 12, Trustee Meeting. june 11-13, Commencement Weekend. June 14-17, Hanover Holiday, June 17-18, Alumni Council Meeting. June 18-20, Class Reunions.
