In Brief . . .

THE Trustees have approved preliminary plans for two new faculty apartment units to be built on North Park Street. Containing five three-bedroom apartments each, the buildings will be of contemporary design, by E. H. and M. K. Hunter of Hanover, and will be constructed of brick and white clapboard. The two units will be located well back from North Park Street in order to preserve a good part of the wooded area that adds to the attractiveness of the site. Construction will begin as early as possible in the spring, with the expectation that at least one of the units will be ready for the opening of college next September.

Each apartment will have its own covered porch and play area for children, basement storage and car shelter. The new housing is intended for younger members of the faculty and staff who are not usually able to own their own homes. It is expected that there will be a regular turnover in occupancy, with an average stay of three or four years. For permanent members of the faculty and staff the College is continuing its policy of aiding new home construction by extending mortgage loans on liberal terms.

President Dickey will speak December 9 at the University of Kentucky on the subject, "The Problem of Purpose in the College." This will be one of the Blazer Lectures in History and the Social Studies, which for 1955-56 are devoted to the general subject of "Man and His Changing World."

Prof. John G. Kemeny, chairman of the Mathematics Department, reports that math has been elected by a record number of Dartmouth undergraduates this year, in both elementary and advanced courses. More than 95% of the freshmen are taking mathematics, for example. "The better college students always take some math," says Professor Kemeny, "and the plain fact is that college students today are better students than they used to be." The demand for mathematicians in industry and government is one factor in the increased interest in the subject, and in Dartmouth's case in particular, an added attraction is the Department's new honors program that starts with the gifted student's first day in the classroom.

The News Service last month put out, with a certain amount of courage, a story advising girls that if they married Dartmouth men, they could expect it to last. This claim was based on studies of the Classes of 1929 and 1930, twenty-five years out of college, showing that only 4% of married men in 1929 and 9% in 1930 were divorced. On a national scale, there is one divorce for every three marriages.