In Brief . . .
ADJUSTMENTS in faculty and administrative staff salaries, effective July 1, were announced in individual letters mailed out last month by Prof. Donald H. Morrison, Dean of the Faculty, and John F. Meek '33, Treasurer and Vice President of the College. Salary increases did not follow any set pattern but were made on an individual basis and, in general, with recognition of the fact that salaries in recent years had been increased proportionately more for faculty members in the lower ranks than for the full professors. The increases will be financed by means of a rise of $180 in tuition and the general fee, which goes into effect next fall.
The Town of Hanover, which has financial problems of its own, last month accepted a special contribution of $40,000 from the College in lieu of taxes on specially classified College property. The contribution, arrived at after discussions between College and town officials, will be paid over a four-year period, beginning with the tax year 1956. This has the effect of raising from $800,000 to $1,000,000 the assessment on partially taxable property. Some College property is. wholly tax exempt, and a third portion, such as rental buildings and housing, is subject to the same tax as private town property. In 1954 the tax on this third classification was $34,000, and for the partially exempt property it was $32,500.
The reduction of Thanksgiving vacation to a single day last fall met with general student dissatisfaction, and even with unhappiness on the part of many parents who wanted their sons home for a family occasion. Next fall, by vote of the executive committee of the faculty, the Thanksgiving recess will again extend from Wednesday noon to Monday morning; but this is definitely adopted as a one-year experiment. To make up for the class days lost, the Christmas recess has been shortened by one day and the final-exam period for the first semester has been pushed back one day.
Kenneth M. Henderson '16 of Chicago has been elected Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the Tuck School. He is president of Ditto, Inc., and a former member of the Dartmouth Alumni Council, for which he served as Alumni Fund chairman in 1952 and 1953, Other members of Tuck School's Board of Overseers are Albert H. Bradley '15, Harrison F. Dunning '30, Sumner B. Emerson 17, Senator Ralph E. Flanders, A.M. '32, H. Richardson Lane '07 and Charles J. Zimmerman '23.
We are pleased to read that the new bell in Princeton's Nassau Hall will send a high-class note ringing over Tigertown. Half a tone lower than the old bell, which cracked, the new bell sounds a bold, clear D.
