In Brief ...

SOME forty administrative and faculty representatives of fourteen colleges and universities gathered at Dartmouth on October 4 and 5 for the 98th annual meeting of the Association of Colleges in New England. Twelve of the fourteen institutions were represented by their presidents (shown in the photograph on next page), as well as by deans and other delegates. Topics discussed during the two-day program included admission and enrollment, student counseling and orientation, curricula, faculty policies, teacher development, scholarship aid, secondary school prepara- tion, extracurricular programs, public relations and a number of others.

Attending the meetings were representatives from Amherst, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Clark, Dartmouth, Harvard, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Vermont, Wesleyan, Williams and Yale. In addition to President Dickey, Dartmouth's representatives were John F. Meek '33, Vice President and Treasurer; Prof. Donald H. Morrison, Provost; and Prof. Joseph L. McDonald, Dean of the College.

It has been announced by Sidney C. Hayward '26, Secretary of the College, that last June's innovation of mid-week reunions for three classes will be repeated in 1956. Next June the Classes of 1920, 1921 and 1922 will gather in Hanover from Monday through Wednesday, June 11-13. This will come just after the Commencement Weekend reunions of 1906, 1901 and 1896, and just before the June 15-17 gatherings of 1916, 1931, 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1946. The effort to provide less crowded and better reunions for the mid-week classes was voted a great success by 1909, 1910 and 1911, who inaugurated the system last June.

Guest lecturers in the Great Issues Course since the seniors turned their attention to "National Issues" have included U. S. Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire; Leland Olds, former Chairman of the Federal Power Commission; Dean Francis Keppel of the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and Dean Eugene V. Rostow of Yale Law School. Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader, will lecture on November 7.

The Dartmouth crew, which this year will make its bid in the "big time" when it faces Ivy League opponents, has received substantial financial support from alumni and others in recent months, and has used some of these funds to construct a training barge for use in the Connecticut River. The barge, named for Jim Smith, former coach, is being put to good use this fall, but it is intended primarily to answer the problem of getting onto the river early in the spring when there is still danger of having a chunk of ice damage a frail and costly shell. Next spring, after being hauled out for the winter, it will be launched farther down the Connecticut, below the junction with the White River, where the ice goes out first. In this way, points out Coach Thaddeus Seymour, Dartmouth will take to real water only a few days after Harvard and Yale. The barge is 46 feet long and six feet wide, and has places for eight oarsmen on each side, with a coaching walkway down the middle.

Both barge and shells are well filled this fall. Some 85 freshmen have joined the upperclass rowers, and next spring, when there are more daylight hours, fifty more freshmen will be accommodated in what is the fastest growing activity at Dartmouth.

Dartmouth Publications last month issued a new reprint of the booklet TheOrozco Frescoes at Dartmouth. It contains reproductions of the entire series of frescoes in black and white, with descriptive notes and a portrait of the artist. It sells for $1.50, plus 10 cents for mailing, and can be ordered from Dartmouth Publications, Baker Library, Hanover, N. H.

While President Dickey was ad- dressing the class bequest chairmen at their Hanover meeting on September 16, the latter part of his talk was made against the competition of chapel bells being clanged by oriented freshmen. The first question of the question period, put by an elderly alumnus, - "Mr. President, what is all that noise?" Quick as a flash, President Dickey came back: "That, sir, is evidence that boys will still be boys while we are trying to make men of them."

Twelve college presidents were among those in Hanover for the annual meeting of the Association of Colleges in New England, October 4-5. Left to right: President Harold C. Case, Boston University; President Nils Y. Wessell, Tufts; President Carl W. Borgmann, Vermont; Dean William C DeVane, Yale; President Barnaby C. Keeney, Brown; President Nathan M. Pusey, Harvard; President James P. Baxter, Williams; President John Sloan Dickey, Dartmouth; President Charles W. Cole, Amherst; President Howard B. Jefferson, Clark; President Albert C. Jacobs, Trinity- President Samuel S. Stratton '20, Middlebury; and President James S. Coles, Bowdoin.

A very recent picture of Dartmouth's First Family taken in the garden of the President's House. Standing behind President and Mrs. Dickey are John Jr., 15, a student at Exeter this year; Sylvia, 20, a junior at Wheelock College; and Christina, 19, a sophomore at Smith. Rusty, a golden Labrador retriever, joined the family in 1947.

The same family group ten years ago when Mr. Dickey became Dartmouth's President.