In Brief ...
AFTER returning to his office on January 13, following a three-week stay in Dick's House because of phlebitis, President Dickey suffered a recurrence of his leg ailment and was hospitalized for another three weeks, beginning January 24. He was well enough to attend the annual dinner of the Boston Alumni Association on February 17, and during March he will speak at the New York and Boston dinners of the Alumni Fund class agents, but all plans for more distant traveling have had to be cancelled for the time being, on doctor's advice.
Undergraduate enrollment at Dartmouth for the present semester is 8,587, a drop of only 68 from the number of men who started off the college year in September. Total enrollment for the College and the three associated schools is 2,786, a drop of 71 from the fall total.
The annual Freshman Fathers Weekend, February 26-28, was expected to attract more than three hundred fathers of '57 men, a record number for the program that was inaugurated four years ago. A dinner, talks by President Dickey and Dean Morse, and freshman basketball and hockey games were part of the organized program. The Rev. Llewellyn Diplock, father of Llewellyn R. Diplock '57 of Williamsport, Pa., was guest preacher at a freshman service in Rollins Chapel on Sunday, the 28 th.
f A weekend guide service for visitors to the College began last month under the joint sponsorship of Green Key and the college administration. The free information and guide service will operate from College Hall every Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 1 to 5 while the College is in session. Five students have been chosen to operate the service, and they also will be available during the week by special arrangement through the Admissions Office. Alumni knowing of visits to Dartmouth by persons who will want a guided tour of the campus may make certain of guide service by contacting F. Gardiner Bridge in the Admissions Office.
The New England Colleges Fund, in which Dartmouth is a participant along with 22 other independent liberal arts institutions in New England, received $53,505 from 47 business and industrial firms during the fall of 1953. Justin A. Stanley '33, Vice President of the College, expressed thanks from Dartmouth and said, "This evidence of the willingness of industry to lend its understanding and support is indeed gratifying to those who have the heavy responsibility of maintaining our liberal arts colleges as truly independent and vital institutions. It seems to me that New England industry has responded most generously to the appeal of the Fund, considering the short time it has been in existence."
Among the country's 59 recipients of Rotary International Fellowships, offered for graduate study abroad, are Lawrence S. Martz Jr. '54, of Pontiac, Mich., and Matthew W. Cooney Jr. '50, of Rockport, Mass. Both received grants for the year
Martz, who is editor of Dart and managing editor of The Dartmouth, plans to study communications next year at Oxford University in England. He has been active in publications throughout his college career. Cooney, a teacher of English at Gloucester High School, has been on leave of absence during the past year to study at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and will continue his studies toward the Ph.D. degree in English Literature at the University of New Zealand.
Rotary International Fellowships carry grants ranging from $1800 to 13400 a year, depending upon need and the type of program the student desires to pursue. Now offered for the eighth year, the fellowships have been awarded to 595 scholars, both men and women, from 56 countries.
