In Brief ...
SUCCESSFUL applicants for the Class of 1958 were scheduled to receive letters of notification from the Admissions Office on or about the first of May. At the same time decisions were to be announced to those who applied for scholarship aid. The successful candidates have until May 19 to send their acceptances to Dartmouth. Next fall's entering class is expected to number about 725 men, chosen from approximately 3,000 "active" applicants who completed all forms.
A premiere performance of DownstairsDragon, a comic fantasy by John W. Finch, Professor of English, has been chosen by The Players for their Green Key Weekend production, to be presented in Webster Hall on the evening of May 12, 13, 14 and 15. Professor Finch's play was recently completed after four years of work. It deals with the trials of a family inhabiting an old museum, and populated strictly with museum pieces which include weird people, animals and a dragon. Not the least challenge to the producers is the list of props required for the play. In addition to antique mirrors, vases and other bric-a-brac, a complete dinosaur's s keleton must be procured. In 1947 Professor Finch's play The WanhopeBuilding was presented by the Experimental Theater in New York and has since been played in community theaters.
An Opera Workshop has been formed by a group of interested Dartmouth students and Prof. Frederick Sternfeld of the Music Department has agreed to serve as their faculty adviser and lecturer. Weekly meetings are devoted to listening to and discussing recorded operatic music, followed by a singing period for those interested in tackling opera on an amateur level. For this latter period, Valma Cole is piano accompanist and Professor Sternfeld provides instruction. The opera being worked on at present is Don Giovanni. Although begun by students, the Opera Workshop is open also to faculty members, nurses and all interested townspeople.
f The Ivy League, which embraces athletic teams and alumni magazines among other things, has widened its scope within a new organization of campus cops. The Campus Security Organization, with representatives from the Ivy League and twelve New York institutions, plans to exchange information to protect students from thieves and rackets. The control of riots and "visiting firemen" from other campuses was also discussed at the organization meeting in New York.
