THE COLLEGE

WITH this issue the DARTMOUTH ALUMNI MAGAZINE begins its 50th year of publication as a monthly bearing the present name. Dartmouth's first alumni publication, The DartmouthBi-Monthly, was established in 1905, and three years later, in October 1908, Volume 1, Number 1 of the present magazine appeared.

It is pleasing to the editors that this first issue of the 50th year can be devoted largely to an event that made manifest the stature and educational responsibility of the College today - the Dartmouth Convocation on Great Issues in the Anglo-Canadian-American Community. The substance of the Convocation addresses and panel discussions is presented in a special supplement to this issue. Editorial plans for this anniversary year include the publication of one or two other supplements that will point up the College's central concern with the serious business of higher education.

The quality of last month's AngloCanadian-American Convocation was in- herent in the distinguished group of men, from three nations, who honored the College by agreeing to participate in the discussions. There are rare occasions in the life of an institution when a planned event not only measures up to the hopes held for it but, once under way, creates its own momentum, its own note of perfection, and thus exceeds all expectations. The Convocation was such an occasion. The informed, articulate, congenial, and serious men who defined and discussed the issues were the "heart" of the Convocation. The hundreds of alumni and wives, faculty members and others who were in Hanover to listen provided the sort of audience before which any group of speakers would have given their best.

In the gracious and felicitous "benediction" with which he ended the final panel discussion, Sir Geoffrey Crowther wondered whether the little circle indicating Hanover on the North American map was "intended to suggest that this campus is, as indeed for these few days it is, the hub of the Western world." With all due allowance for what might be said by a polite guest, Dartmouth for three days was indeed a strong point in the ACA alliance and an example of "the constructive and cohering force of the human intellect exercised in freedom."