"Atlantic" Author

DARTMOUTH men picking up the April issue of The Atlantic Monthly and looking at the cover painting will experience the warm feeling that comes from recognizing a familiar scene. President Dickey, who has written the lead article for the issue, is shown by the artist in a characteristic pose in his office, with Dartmouth Hall seen through the window in the background. Rusty, the President's golden Labrador retriever, also makes the cover, with his supply of old tennis balls on the window sill.

Entering this office hardly seems an illusion as the reader turns to the lead article, "Conscience and the Undergraduate," and to President Dickey's words, which have the forthright cadence of one of his spoken messages. The main theme of the article is that the liberal arts college has a unique and historic mission, "to see men made whole in both competence and conscience." President Dickey maintains that "to create the power of competence without creating a corresponding sense of moral direction to guide the use of that power is bad education."

From the viewpoint of the college president whose concern is youth, maturing and learning, President Dickey describes some of the difficulties inherent in this process of equating competence with conscience, as well as the encouragements. In conclusion he makes clear his conviction that

fostering conscience as a component of education must be implemented, not merely by relying on individuals in the college setting, but "on the more traditional combination of men plus the prod of institutional form and purpose." Dartmouth's establishment of the William Jewett Tucker Foundation and her aim of appointing a Dean of the Tucker Foundation are cited as the way one liberal arts college has chosen to provide a means toward moral and spiritual development for undergraduates.

Reprints of President Dickey's Atlantic article have been ordered and, under the auspices of the Tucker Foundation, they will be distributed early in May to all alumni on the regular college mailing lists, and to the faculty, undergraduates, parents and friends of the College.