Miscellany
THE ESSO Education Foundation last month announced grants totaling $1,067,900 to help privately supported American colleges and universities during the current academic year. Dartmouth was awarded $5,000 as an unrestricted grant for undergraduate education. The Foundation, with headquarters in New York, was created last October by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and a group of affiliated companies.
Interest in the Dartmouth Undergraduate Council's third annual College Conference on Political Affairs picked up last month with the news that Senator Estes Kefauver, Democratic aspirant for the Presidency, and Harold E. Stassen, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, would be the principal speakers. Student Chairman Robert H. Gile '56 has announced that this year's theme will be "Does the Record of the Republican Administration Warrant Its Endorsement by the Voters in Next November's Election?"
The conference will be held March 2 and 3, with Senator Kefauver speaking on the first night and Mr. Stassen speaking the following afternoon. Invitations have been extended to some 120 Eastern colleges and universities to send delegates, and in view of the election-year program and the steady growth of the conference, this year's meeting is expected to be the largest yet staged.
President Emeritus Hopkins will head the board of judges to select the winner in the contest to name Dartmouth's new ski development at Holt's Ledge in Lyme, N. H. Others on the judging committee are Mrs. Florimond Duke ('18) and Charles M. Sears '19, both of Lyme; Dean Stearns Morse; William T. Eldred, publisher of Ski Magazine; and Roberts W. French '56, president of the DOC. Entries by students, alumni and Upper Valley residents may be submitted up to March 1 and should carry some connotation of Dartmouth. Mail them to Ski Contest, Crosby Hall, Hanover, N. H. First prize is a lifetime pass on the new ski lift, transferable to someone else if the winner is not a skier.
The December report of the Committee on Admission and the Freshman Year dealt mainly with the Class of 1959, but tucked in was a.noteworthy bit of news about 1958, the present sophomore class. At the end of its first year, 1958's total attrition for all reasons was only 19 men out of 751, or 2.5%. This is the lowest percentage ever recorded by the College, and compares with 4.7% for 1956 and 2.7% for 1957.
§&> Another recent report was that bringing to a close the work of the Commission on Campus Life and Its Regulations. We have previously reported the recommendations of the Commission, headed by Prof. Frank G. Ryder, but not the proposal that the College institute an annual Honors Convocation to recognize the attainment of academic distinction and awards for advanced study. College athletes have their day, the Commission pointed out, but the student winning honors in the academic field goes largely unrecognized except at Commencement when undergraduates are not around.
Parking meters in Winchester, Mass., are a familiar shade of Green because Dartmouth had the votes. Three Dartmouth alumni members on the five-man Board of Selectmen - George A. Saltmarsh '18, William C. Cusack '27 and George B. Redding '29 - stood firm against the machinations of two Harvard colleagues who wanted — of course - crimson.
