Infinite Variety

SCHOLARS, poets and statesmen were among those who addressed college audiences during the past month. Presenting the first talk in the College Lecture Series on October 25, William M. Jordan, Assistant Director of the Political Affairs Division of the U. N. Secretariat, spoke on "The United Nations at the Crossroads."

"Lower Case Poet e e cummings," as The Dartmouth headlined him on November 16, presented before a large and receptive audience a "nonlecture." A poet combining two mediums, Willard Maas in a program of five experimental films, including his own Image in the Snow, showed how poetry can be captured on film, on November 18.

In contrast, a specifically down-to-earth lecture was the one given by Dr. Richard A. Howard on November 16. Director of the Arnold Arboretum and Professor of Dendrology at Harvard, he spoke on "Jungle Housekeeping," or survival techniques for airplane crews forced down in the jungles.

At the second Union Service, November 13, the Rev. Boynton Merrill '15, minister of the First Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, preached on "The Prelude to Morning."

Faculty members spoke on a variety of subjects. Robert A. Kavesh, Assistant Professor of Economics, attracted a large group when he described the trading of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. To those who hoped for "hot tips," he gave a final bit of advice, "Buy low and sell high. If I've told you how to do this, let me in on the secret."

Edward J. Green, Instructor in Psychology, introduced his pigeons, whom he has taught to read (in a limited way), in the newly opened animal laboratory in McNutt. Also in the psychological realm, a panel discussion on the values of psychotherapy was well attended on November 17. Albert H. Hastorf, Assistant Professor of Psychology, put the audience in an excellent mood by his opening quip: "Neurotics build dream houses; psychotics live in them; and psychoanalysts charge rent for them."