Lots Besides Classes

WITH the College weekly calendars bristling with lectures to attend, music to hear and plays to watch, the members of the College community enjoyed an unusually busy three weeks, following the spring recess.

Among the lecturers, Lane Dwinell '28, New Hampshire candidate for Governor, spoke under the auspices of the Faculty Social Science Club on "A Look at New Hampshire"; Arctic Consultant Vilhjalmur Stefansson gave a Tower Room talk on "Explorers as Authors"; and during the last week of April the former Governor of Alaska, Dr. Ernest Gruening, who favors statehood, gave an illustrated public lecture on the history of Alaska and this country's stake in the Far North. West Africa and Kenya were the subjects of a talk, open to the public, by Archibald Campbell, Colonial - at the British Embassy in Washington, who spoke at Tuck School. Two faculty groups, who drew interested audiences, held forums on "The Eisenhower Administration, Success or Failure?" and "Psychology in Government," which brought out opinions from members of the Government, Sociology, Economics and Psychology departments.

The Players carried off an ambitious project with outstanding success when they gave eight performances in all of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts One and Two. Robinson Hall had appreciative audiences for both matinee and evening presentations.

For the musical - and in and about Hanover this constitutes a large group the concert by Lydia Hofmann-Behrendt, pianist, on April 14, was especially well received. Madame Behrendt, who has studied, with concert masters in Vienna, Munich and Berlin, is well known to Hanover audiences, who, through her, have become better acquainted with Hindemith and other modern composers. Listeners who attended the joint Glee Club concert with Mt. Holyoke College on April 24 were particularly pleased with the performance of The Lord Nelson Mass, which made up the main selection of the program, conducted by Ruth Douglas, director of Mt. Holyoke's Glee Club and Paul Zeller, Dartmouth Glee Club director.

The College community in general benefited from the current emphasis of the Great Issues course on humanistic topics. A faculty concert on the evening of April 21 included traditional and contemporary music and was geared to the course. A modern art exhibit in the Carpenter Galleries was also related to Great Issues, as was a program of sound films in color, open to the public, which included pictures dealing with early Japanese art, and the French artists Toulouse-Lautrec and Georges Rouault.

And for all those with humanistic interests, there was the Charlie Chaplin film, Festival A, a collection of Chaplin shorts, presented by the College Film Society.