Summer Highlights

IN Hanover, as elsewhere this summer, the heat was on, in a blastlike wave which seemed at times to suggest that a giant thermostat had been turned up. In spite of the high temperatures, however, the social, athletic and learned activities of the College and town went on at a coolweather pace. The Hanover Information Booth, situated in its new spot opposite the Inn corner, was queried by the occupants of 6,517 cars - 2,597 more than last year, an increase of 66.2 per cent. Larger audiences than ever attended the series of summer concerts given by the Estival Quartet; and in Baker the librarians were kept busy assisting the seventy scholars and writers who chose to work and vacation in Hanover.

Tuck School in August was once more host to the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management, for its sixth an- nual session. Representing business firms from Maine to California, 197 student executives took an intensive two-week course which permitted them to learn new theoretical knowledge while exchanging practical information among themselves. On August 12, a class of 59 students who had completed the necessary two-year program were graduated.

The College on September 1 welcomed thirty scientists to the nation's first conference on tissue elasticity. For three days, meetings attended by biochemists, physiologists and biophysicists were held under the direction of Dr. John W. Remington, Professor of Physiology at the Medical College of Georgia, and Prof. Allen L. King of Dartmouth's Physics Department, who arranged the conference.

Of the "summer scholars," about one-fifth were authors engaged in the writing of biographies, novels, children's stories and magazine articles. The other four-fifths were men and women associated with the faculties of other colleges and universities. Columbia and Harvard led in representation, with Yale, Princeton, Brown, Johns Hopkins, the City College of New York and New York University not far behind. Hoping, perhaps, to escape the heat, a larger contingent than usual came from the South, from Davidson College in North Carolina, Fisk in Tennessee, and Berea in Kentucky. Of the many scholars who visited Hanover, one of the most interesting was Hutuktu, a Buddhist priest from Outer Mongolia, who moved this fall from Johns Hopkins to Columbia University.

The continued popularity of the Estival Quartet shows that before it became part of the summer scene, the average Hanover resident must have harbored a deep and unfulfilled longing for music during July and August. For the second season, popular demand resulted in the Quartet's adding an extra concert to the five originally scheduled. All performances were presented to capacity audiences in the 1902 Room of Baker Library.

With Hanover representing civilization to numerous summer camps in the region, the College more and more acts as host for camp activities. It again conducted a softball tournament for nearby camps on July 35 and 26, with victory going to Camp Winape of East Charlestown, Vt. There was also a tennis tournament in which Camp Pinnacle of Lyme, N. H., took top honors.

Campers, their parents, counsellors, tourists, alumni, summer cottagers from lakesides and mountains, prospective students and many others made up the 3,000 visitors conducted by the four student guides through college buildings and around the campus. Many lingered to look at the summer exhibits in the Carpenter Art Galleries and Baker Library.