The Faculty
If we are to be irrevocably tied to the apron strings of tradition, then we should prohibit all student automobiles in Hanover. If Dartmouth is going to be an educational institution, however, we cannot simply refuse to accept the influence of a modern automobile age. Rather, we must educate in the use of this automobile. To deny this use because a few abuse the privilege, and leave every weekend, would be as asinine as legislating campus prohibition because a few students haven't learned to drink properly.
We cannot deny what has become a fact; we can educate in the use of that fact.
I have mentioned three areas of concern in this discussion of the dilemmaposed by the inevitable conflict of tradition and modernism. There are many other facets to this situation that I might have mentioned, but I choose these three because I feel that they show particularly lucidly how each of the three primary components of this College is involved in our common problem. The alumni have demonstrated a vivid concern with the Hopkins Center architecture, the undergraduate with the role that he is to play, and the Administration and faculty with the automobile situation.
Each of these areas involves this basic conflict between the traditional and the modern; and in each case I feel that the weight of tradition is slowing the always-necessary process of revitalization.
This continued vitality is entirely dependent upon the willingness of everyone concerned with this College to look forward, not backward. If we tie the Dartmouth of today to the tradition of yesterday, then we may look only backwards to a cherished past, not forward to a vital future.
It is only this vitality, this progressivism, which can insure a continued heritage; it is only this condition which will leave, for future Dartmouth generations, a College rich in ideal and tradition. If we today refuse to contribute our thinking, our ideals, then this tradition will stop with the 189 th year.
"The question," in the words of a recent Great Issues speaker, "is not whether it is good enough for us. It is 'Will it be good enough for our sons?' "
MILESTONES
DARTMOUTH INTRAMURAL COUNCIL: Chairman, Allan E. Freeman '58, Flushing, N. Y.; Fraternity Members, Wilson Condit '52, Clifton, N. Y.; John Germani '5, Osterville, Mass.; George Martinson '58, Marblehead, Mass. Dormitory Members, Nathan Oakes '59, Cleveland Heights, O.; Richard Freeman '60, Lansing, Mich.; Sheldon London '59, New London, Conn.
ONE of the most widely traveled members of the Dartmouth faculty, Professor of Geography Trevor Lloyd, has just returned from a seven-month tour of Europe and the Soviet Union. The purpose of his trip was threefold: he wished to associate with
arctic geographers and scientists in Russia and study their methods and universities, to visit several British universities, and to do some research in the northern Scandinavian countries, especially Finland and Norway.
Professor Lloyd spent more than a month in the Soviet Union, primarily at universities in Leningrad and Moscow, but while there he made a journey to the southeastern cities of Alma Ata and Tashkent in the Republics of Kazak and Uzbek. In reporting on his trip Professor Lloyd said, "I am primarily a geographer. To examine the political, social and economic structure of Russia was not the purpose for which the trip was made. I will say, though, that the technological advancement displayed in the USSR indicates very great promise in the future. ... At my last lecture at the Academy of Science before more than 300 scientists in Moscow, I was pressed, much against my will, to tell them my impressions of the Soviet Union. I spoke to them very frankly and they were more than grateful for having had a free Western scientist before them."
In his academic associations Professor Lloyd found cooperation unequaled anywhere. He had not planned to lecture during his trip to Russia, but at the invitation of Russian scientists he did deliver several lectures.
SIXTY-FIVE high school science teachers met at Dartmouth in early October under the joint auspices of the College and the Departments of Education of New Hampshire and Vermont. The conference was under the direction of Associate Professor Raymond W. Barratt of the Botany Department, and was designed to improve science teaching methods and the quality of secondary scientific education. The program included a discussion of various aspects of the International Geophysical Year by Assistant Professor Huntington Curtis of the Thayer School. Professor A. G. Olsen of Brandeis University, regional consultant for the Association of the Advancement of Science, also addressed the meeting.
RECENT Olympic coach and Dartmouth's coach of swimming Karl Michael is the author of the article on swimming in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
ANEW feature of the required freshman course, "The Individual and the College," is the formation this fall of discussion sections for lao students. The purpose of the course is to assist freshmen in making the necessary adjustments to college life and to open up before them some of the rich opportunities which are theirs while they are here. Selected at random from the entire class, the 120 freshmen who are participating in the experimental program meet once a week with their advisers in groups of fifteen. The, subject matter of these discussions is normally the material presented in the lectures of the course, which cover such matters as Dartmouth's History, Studying in College, The Individual and Society, and The Aesthetic Life. However, as the students bring up their questions the discussions range freely over a wide variety of topics.
It is the hope of the discussion leaders that these meetings will help students to get more out of their college years. "What we are trying to find out," explains Course Director Almon B. Ives, "is whether the experimental group, as a result of the discussions and the advice given, profits from the activity through greater academic achievement, better adjustment to activities, and better adjustment to the community."
The advisers are Professors Harold L. Bond '42, Lou B. Noll, Harry T. Schultz '37, and Thaddeus Seymour, all from the English Department; Professor Norman D. Doenges, from the Classics Department; Professor Paul Zeller, from the Music Department; and Coach Elliot B. Noyes '32.
New Faculty Members This Fall
THE work of the faculty outside the classroom at meetings of undergraduate organizations has been extensive this fall. In addition to the foreign language clubs and the community language classes, both of which receive the untiring and dedicated service of faculty members, there are many groups which call upon the faculty for speakers. Professor John Finch, chairman of the English Department, led a discussion of "The Devil, Our Contemporary," before the Dartmouth Christian Union's Sunday Evening Group. The discussion was based on Dennis De Rougemont's book, TheDevil's Share. The Political Affairs Committee of the Undergraduate Council sponsored a panel discussion by faculty members of the topic "Little Rock: Faubus vs. Eisenhower." The panel was composed of Professor Herbert Garfinkel of the Government Department, Dr. Harry S. Burdick, of the Psychology Department, and Robert Horn, Visiting Professor of Government. Professor Allen L, King, back after a leave of absence last semester from the Physics Department, discussed the motions of bacteria and their flagella at a recent Physics Colloquium. As a final example of the range and variety of these activities, we should mention Professor Lewis D. Stilwell's "Battle Night" lecture series during which he discusses memorable frontier battles.
SOME 350 colleges in the United States this fall distributed to entering freshmen the booklet, How to Get the MostOut of Your Textbooks, by Robert M. Bear, Professor of Psychology and Supervisor of Aptitude Testing and of the Reading Clinic in Dartmouth's Office of Student Counseling. The booklet is published by the College Section of the American Textbook Publishers Institute, and more than 150,000 copies are being distributed. It is a guide for studying and includes suggestions for marking textbooks to make reviewing easier.
Professor Bear is nationally known for his work in remedial reading at the college level. He has written many articles in this field, has devised tests, and has participated in conferences and institutes throughout the country. Last year he went to Paris, France, to direct a seminar on methods of reading improvement. In 1956-57 he was president of the New Hampshire Psychological Association.
IT is with great regret that we record the recent death of Willis MacNair Rayton, Professor of Physics, who came to Dartmouth in 1939. Dr. Rayton, a leader in research, was project director for an ionospheric research program at the College being conducted in connection with the International Geophysical Year. Although the news of his death will be treated more fully elsewhere in this issue, we wanted to take this occasion to pay our respects to a highly esteemed colleague.
Dr. S. Marsh Tenney '44 has been named Director of Medical Sciences at Dartmouth College, in which newly created post he will be in charge of all medical education and research activities at the College.
Donald E. Richmond, Visiting Professor ofMathematics this year, has taught at Cornell, Brown and Williams. Graduate of Cornell in 1920, he also took his Ph.D. there.
Hazleton Mirkil III, formerly Instructor inMathematics at Dartmouth, has returned thisfall with the rank of Assistant Professor.
Charles B. McLane '41 has come to Dartmouth as Professor of Russian Civilization. He was cultural attache with the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, 1950-52, took his Ph.D. at Columbia, and has taught at Swarthmore.
Robert A. Horn is Visiting Professor of Government. On leave from Stanford, he earlier taught at Harvard and Chicago and is the author of "Troops and the Constitution."
