A Review of Major College Events

IN his talk to the Dartmouth Alumni Council in June, President Dickey set the stage for discussions about the work of the Trustees' 1969 Planning Committee by reviewing major Dartmouth developments during the ten-year postwar period from 1945 to 1955. This talk by the President was in effect a personal review of his own administration to date.

President Dickey spoke about various areas of Dartmouth life and work - admissions, enrollment activity, the faculty, the curriculum, finances, and student life - but prefaced all this by saying, "There's been change, but I think we'd be missing the central fact if we did not start with the proposition that these ten years, while they have been years of change, more importantly have been years of continuity ... continuity in purpose, continuity in basic principles, continuity in basic policies."

In President Dickey's view, the most significant responses of the College to postwar problems included the coordination of the admissions and financial aid operations; the development of a national enrollment program, now being consolidated with admissions and aid; an administrative realignment, going into formal effect next year, to handle the tremendous increase in applications for admission; the establishment of faculty recruitment policies and of conditions, financial and otherwise, for the retention of topnotch teachers; the development of cooperative courses of an interdepartmental and interdivisional nature, including Great Issues; the creation of a broader base for developing financial support of the College, and formation of a Development Office to execute these plans; a realistic raising of tuition charges for students able to pay their way, and a corresponding increase in scholarship aid; the development of student self-government; a complete inventory of campus life by the Ryder Commission in order to create social conditions "that would give Dartmouth a more total and more satisfactory educational impact on the men who come here"; and the creation of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation in an effort "to be more specifically, more systematically, responsive to the moral purpose of the undergraduate liberal arts college."

And finally, said President Dickey to the Alumni Council, "we came to the point a year or so ago where it seemed to the Trustees, to myself and my administrative associates, and to many of you with whom we conferred, that Dartmouth was ready to begin a systematic, organized, sustained effort to plan her future in all critical areas of college life and work, so that come 1969, we would not simply hold a year of vain self-congratulation about what we were going to do in the third century, but that come Dartmouth's bicentennial in 1969, Dartmouth would celebrate because she had produced an undergraduate educational operation that was worthy of celebration as she moved from her second to her third century."

PRESIDENT Dickey's picture of the past ten years was necessarily painted with broad strokes. In order to convey something of the truly impressive activity and accomplishment at Dartmouth since 1945, the ALUMNI MAGAZINE has prepared the following year-by-year summary of major events:

1945-46

November John Sloan Dickey '29 inaugurated as Dartmouth's twelfth President.

Navy ROTC Unit commissioned.

Dartmouth joins in Ivy League football agreement.

January Temporary wartime salary increases for the faculty made permanent.

Trustees vote to name new auditorium building for President Emeritus Hopkins.

February Faculty votes curriculum changes involving a wider range of subjects in the first two years and a required senior course in Great Issues.

March Dartmouth fraternities reopen.

Hopkins War Memorial fund campaign launched.

May Trustees increase tuition from $450 to $500 for the coming year.

June Full-fledged Commencement is resumed.

Postwar reunions for 44 classes begin, extending through July and August.

Beardsley Ruml '15 elected Alumni Trustee of the College.

Alumni Fund sets dollar record of $416,589 from 13,217 contributors.

July Faculty salaries increased and a long-range salary policy adopted "to assure Dartmouth of being able to maintain and gather a distinguished teaching faculty second to that of no other liberal arts college."

Dartmouth Eye Institute, affiliated with the College for 18 years, assumes independent status.

August Prof. Stearns Morse named Dean of Freshmen and Albert I. Dickerson '30 named Director of Admissions, succeeding Robert C. Strong '24, who died June 8.

1946-47

October Dartmouth, opening its 178th year, returns to normal two-semester year, with all-civilian student body and largest enrollment (2818) in the College's history.

March President Dickey creates a Public Relations Council, under the chairmanship of Sidney C. Hayward '26.

Undergraduate Council established to direct an enlarged program of student self-government.

April Bonus payments made to faculty and staff.

June President Dickey announces new minimum salary levels for staff employees.

Alumni Fund produces $372,103 from 13,538 contributors.

July Prof. Donald H. Morrison named Dean of the Faculty, succeeding Dean E. Gordon Bill.

1947-48

September Great Issues Course launched.

College reaches record enrollment of 3,002.

Faculty Council of forty members goes into effect, serving as executive group for the full faculty.

March Dartmouth joins Ivy League agreement on a common date for acceptance of admission and financial aid.

April Trustees raise tuition from $550 to $600, effective in the fall of 1948.

June New Dartmouth Plan of reunions goes into effect.

Sigurd S. Larmon '14 elected Alumni Trustee of the College.

Alumni Fund raises $381,949 from 13,629 contributors.

July Dartmouth Medical School marks its 150th anniversary.

1948-49

October Dartmouth's total assets reported as over $35,000,000.

April Trustees vote "an added fee toward the cost of education" of $75 to augment the annual tuition charge of $600, effective in the fall of 1949.

June College adopts an enlarged group life insurance plan for all employees and a new retirement program for all non-academic employees.

Alumni Fund raises $386,611 from 14,519 contributors.

July John F. Meek '33 succeeds Halsey C. Edgerton '06 as Treasurer of the College.

1949-50

October Dartmouth Outing Club reorganized, with business enterprises patronized by the general public placed under a Manager of College Outing Properties. Alumni offices centralized in Crosby Hall.

November Dartmouth Development Council established, with Sigurd S. Larmon '14 as first chairman.

February Freshmen Fathers Weekend inaugurated.

June Alumni Fund raises 1414,916 from 14,945 contributors.

1950-51

September The College awards a record total of 1386,000 in financial aid.

The College's financial and business department is reorganized, with creation of a new Office of the Comptroller, headed by Robert D. Funkhouser '27.

October John D. Rockefeller Jr. gives $250,000 to Dartmouth to endow the Ernest Martin Hopkins Scholarships, previ- ously established for the sons of Dartmouth men who gave their lives in World War II.

November The first of a series of regional alumni conferences, still continuing, is held at Denver to strengthen alumni organization and enrollment work.

December Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36 is named Executive Officer of the College, in charge of expanded enrollment activity among other duties.

January Army ROTC Unit assigned to Dartmouth, effective in the fall of 1951.

Social Security coverage adopted for all College personnel.

March Trustees create a Board of Overseers for the Hanover Inn.

April Dartmouth chosen for a new Air Force ROTC Unit, effective in the fall of 1951.

Trustees create a Board of Overseers to supervise affairs of Tuck School.

June Trustees establish the William Jewett Tucker Foundation to provide a focus and give new emphasis to Dartmouth's moral and spiritual purpose.

Harvey P. Hood '18 and Dudley W. Orr '29 elected Life Trustees of the College.

Alumni Fund sets new records with 1577,262 from 15,417 contributors. A Parents Committee takes part in the Fund for the first time.

1951-52

September Dartmouth inaugurates a new Department of Russian Civilization, offering an interdivisional major and courses for general election.

A Bequest and Estate Planning Program is established under the Development Council.

Wilder Hall opens a new physics laboratory wing as part of the Hopkins War Memorial Program.

October Lloyd D. Brace '25 and Thomas B. Curtis '32 elected Alumni Trustees of the College.

November Financial aid for the year announced as a record 1442,000.

By bequest of Col. Henry N. Teague 'oo, Dartmouth acquires the summit of Mt. Washington, the Cog Railway and other properties there.

College Board tests are required of all applicants for admission, effective with the Class of 1956.

February The Ivy League college presidents abolish spring football practice and all post-season games.

March The Trustees raise the tuition charge from $675 to $800, effective with the fall of 1952.

June Prof. Joseph L. McDonald named Dean of the College, to succeed Dean Neidlinger.

Justin A. Stanley '33 elected Vice President of the College, in charge of the development program. Mr. Meek also named Vice President in addition to being Treasurer.

The College creates a new Office of Placement and Staff Personnel, under Donald W. Cameron '35, and a new Office of Financial Aid, directed by Robert K. Hage '35. Mr. Dickerson assumes coordinated responsibility for financial aid and admissions.

Charles J. Zimmerman '23 elected an Alumni Trustee of the College.

The, Alumni Fund creates new records with $611,531 from 16,146 contributors.

1952-53

September The Trustees formally establish academic control of intercollegiate athletics and vest responsibility for policy in the President.

The new Office of Student Counseling opens.

Dartmouth helps establish the New England Colleges Fund, seeking corporation support.

October President Dickey announces establishment of twenty Daniel Webster National Scholarships, supported in part by an anonymous gift of one million dollars.

January Arthur R. Upgren named Dean of Tuck School.

February The curriculum is broadened with three interdivisional developments: a Northern Studies Program, offering an Arctic Seminar; a program in Human Relations; and a general course in Science.

Baker Library acquires its 700,000th volume.

March An executive committee of twenty members replaces the Faculty Council.

April Dartmouth permanently acquires; the famous Stefansson library on the polar regions, through funds provided by Albert Bradley '15.

June President Eisenhower receives the honorary LL.D. degree and delivers his famous "book burning" talk to the graduating class.

The College formally organizes its own program for corporation support.

The Alumni Fund reaches new peaks with $671,147 from 17,375 contributors.

1953-54

September A new Department of Plant and Operations is set up, replacing Buildings and Grounds and combining general direction of plant, dormitories, dining halls, housing and purchasing.

A program of Teaching Interns begins, designed to raise the standard of undergraduate teaching and to attract outstanding young men to a teaching career.

The College purchases the buildings of the former Clark School.

October The Treasurer reports total assets of over $40,000,000.

Class Memorial Funds total more than a million dollars.

November Robert A. Rolfe '31 is named Director of Athletics, effective July 1.

December President Dickey announces appointment of a Commission on Campus Life and Its Regulation, to make a study of all phases of student life.

Davis Hockey Rink rededicated with a new artificial ice system.

January Enrollment activity advances with establishment of a National Enrollment Committee by the Alumni Council.

February An Ivy League in football, effective with the 1956 season, is formally set up by the college presidents of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale.

April The Trustees accept and approve the recommendations of undergraduates, as expressed in a March referendum, that Dartmouth fraternities must within six years rid themselves of nationally imposed membership restrictions based on race, religion or national origin.

June Beardsley Ruml '15 elected a Life Trustee of the College. Albert Bradley '15 elected an Alumni Trustee.

1954-55

September Trustees establish the Trustees Planning Committee, under the chairmanship of Harvey P. Hood '18, to set goals for the development of the College on all fronts during the next 15 years, leading up to Dartmouth's Bicentennial in 1969.

A new required freshman course, TheIndividual and the College, is inaugurated.

Six Alfred P. Sloan National Scholarships first awarded.

The experiment of a dormitory Faculty Resident is tried in Cutter Hall.

Financial aid reaches a record high of $552,000.

October J. Ross Gamble named Director of Development.

December "Tuss" McLaughry's football coaching contract terminated.

January Bob Blackman named new head football coach.

Corporation support in 1954 announced as totaling $78,000.

March Trustees increase tuition to $900 and add a general fee of $80, effective in the fall of 1955.

April Trustees approve the recommendation of the Commission on Campus Life that sophomores as well as freshmen be required to eat in Thayer Hall, effective in the fall of 1956.

Dr. Ralph W. Hunter '31 elected a Life Trustee of the College, to fill vacancy created by the death of Dr. John F. Gile '16.

May President Dickey announces a building program, including three new dormitories and remodeling of others, a new faculty apartment house and five new faculty houses, expansion of Thayer Hall, and preliminary studies for constructing the Hopkins Center in the near future.

June Dean Morrison named first Provost of the College, in charge of academic affairs. Prof. Arthur E. Jensen named to succeed him as Dean of the Faculty. To take effect July 1,1956, Albert I. Dickerson '30 named Dean of Freshmen, Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36 named Director of Admissions, and Robert K. Hage '35 named Director of Financial Aid, all three operations to be under the general supervision of Mr. Dickerson.

President Eisenhower visits the Dartmouth Grant.

The grand total of Dartmouth's assets exceed $46,000,000, an increase of 47 per cent during President Dickey's administration; and endowment funds as of June 30 are listed at $36,699,929, an increase of 65 per cent during the ten-year period.

July President Dickey announces increases in faculty and staff salaries, financed by means of higher tuition charges beginning in the fall.

Heading the Great Issues course in 1947 were President Dickey, director; Prof. Arthur M. Wilson (1), associate director; and Thomas W. Braden '40 (r), executive secretary.

Reviewing the NROTC Unit with Captain Sweetser in the spring of 1951

The full membership of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees which met in Hanover in October 1951. Front row (l to r): John F. Gile '16, John R. McLane '07, President Dickey, Edward S. French '06, Governor Sherman Adams '20. Back row: Dudley W. Orr '29, Nelson A. Rockefeller '30, Beardsley Ruml '15, Sigurd S. Larmon '14, Thomas B. Curtis '32, Harvey P. Hood '18 and Lloyd D. Brace '25.

Davis Rink, with artificial ice, is rededicated on December 4, 1953

Mr. Dickey with President Eisenhower at Dartmouth's historic Commencement in 1953

The President with "Red" Rolfe '31 at his Vermont camp in November 1953 when Rolfe was announced as the new athletic director.