In Brief ...
THE executive committee of the faculty last month approved a change in the Army ROTC curriculum from ordnance to general military science. This was one of the final steps toward the realization at Dartmouth of the Army's new policy of liberalizing its educational training here and at other ROTC units in the nation's colleges. Juniors and seniors now in the unit will continue as ordnance men; sophomores and freshmen will gradually be brought into step with the new program; and men in the Class of '59 will wholly be trained under the general military science curriculum. In the new program, the student early in his senior year will list in order of preference the five branches of the service to which he would most like to be assigned.
Ambrose P. McLaughlin '38 of Littleton, N. H., and Richard F. Treadway '36 of Sturbridge, Mass., have been named to the Board of Overseers of the Hanover Inn, it was announced last month by Victor G. Borella '30 of New York, chairman. The eleven-man alumni board has full authority for the operation of the Inn and has been particularly successful in this assignment since its establishment. McLaughlin is general manager of the J. B. Eames Enterprises, operators in Littleton of a hotel and theater. Treadway is chairman of the board of the chain of fourteen Treadway inns in New England, New York and Florida. He is a director of both the American and the New England Hotel Associations.
Delegates from some twenty colleges met in Hanover on February 18 and 19 for the second annual Dartmouth College Conference on Youth and Political Affairs, sponsored by the Undergraduate Council. The two principal speakers were U. S. Senator Clifford Case (R) of New Jersey and Congressman Eugene J. McCarthy (D) of Minnesota, who presented reasons why young men and women should actively take part in politics. Three panel discussions dealt with bipartisan foreign policy, universal military training, and the question, How representative are our political parties?
The faculty last month received a brief progress report from the Sub-Committee on Educational Program Planning, appointed by Harvey P. Hood '18, chairman of the Trustee Planning Committee, to assist in the studies now going forward to determine what Dartmouth College shall be like in 1969. While reading about the various matters that the sub-committee has been exploring, we took special note of the fact that among the topics touched on "in somewhat discursive fashion" is the possibility of admitting women to Dartmouth. We are not ready to throw our editorial weight behind this idea, but we do like it as evidence of some brave thinking on the part of the sub-committee.
Under Trustee Dudley W. Orr '29, as chairman, the educational program planning group has been investigating, among other things, the proposal that larger lecture sections be combined with small seminars in certain courses, the possibility of a four-course curriculum, and ways of stimulating independent work and self-education among the superior students.
The annual Freshman Fathers' Weekend will take place March 4 and 5, with approximately 250 fathers of '58 men expected in town. A banquet, with President Dickey as speaker, will be the chief formal event; the remainder of the program will permit fathers to attend classes, talk with faculty members, live in the dorms and eat in Commons, and take in the athletic events scheduled for that weekend.
Smaller father-son weekends, sponsored by various alumni classes, are now a regular feature of the college year. The Classes of 1923, 1925 and 1926 were in Hanover on February 18-19; this month 1922 and 1924 will gather on March 11-12; and next month 1927 will hold a father-son weekend on April 29-30.
