On the pages that follow...

it is our purpose, in word and picture, to tell something of what it is that makes the Dartmouth faculty a good faculty. To some extent in every issue the ALUMNI MAGAZINE presents the continuing story of teaching at Dartmouth, but this month's fuller treatment constitutes a sort of Faculty Issue, and permits us, as it were, to put Dartmouth's best foot forward.

The reputation of a college is compounded of many things, but at the very heart of it is the teaching staff. A college is only as good as its faculty. Dartmouth, with its academic standing always high, and higher today than ever before, continues to be blessed with "a faculty second in quality to that of no other undergraduate liberal arts college." Dartmouth men when they take pride in the educational work of the College are in reality taking pride in the men who shape this program, set its standards and its spirit of intellectual freedom, and then carry it out day by day in their own earnest labors, compensated more adequately in inner satisfactions than in the financial return for ability and devoted service.

The statement that Dartmouth has "a teaching faculty" is not as redundant as it sounds. There are distinguished faculties on which good teachers and professors do not add up to the same total. Dartmouth can make no claim to complete perfection in this respect, but as Dean Morrison points out in his article, "the College seeks faculty members who have a lively interest in teaching undergraduates," and what it has sought it has found with great success.

In undertaking this Faculty Issue, the editors quickly learned how small a part of the story of teaching at Dartmouth and how few pictures of the faculty could really be presented in a limited number of pages. We advise you to multiply the following contents many times over in order to get an adequate appreciation of the teachers who provide the great and central strength of Dartmouth as an institution of higher learning.