In Brief...
BOTH the Dartmouth Board of Trustees and the Dartmouth Alumni Council have changed the dates and location of their annual winter meetings to February 4 and 5, 1958, in New York City, in order to be present for the big alumni banquet in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom Wednesday evening, February 5, honoring President Emeritus Ernest Martin Hopkins in his Both year. Mr. Hopkins was 80 on November 6. While the dinner 1s primarily a personal tribute to Dartmouth's beloved leader, it will also be the first big event in the College's 200 th anniversary development campaign.
The College's program to improve science education in the New Hampshire and Vermont secondary schools will continue this month with a lecture-demonstration in Hanover for students from seventeen schools in the two states. Prof. Francis W. Sears of the Physics Department opened the series last month, and on December 12 Prof. John W. Dewdney will lecture twice on "The Conservation Principles of Momentum and Energy." Like the first lecture-demonstration, this will be an integral part of the high school physics courses and will coincide with their current phase of study.
In the College itself, a three-day visit, December 4-6, by Dr. Polykarp Kusch, Professor of Physics at Columbia University and 1955 Nobel Prize winner, will be part of a broad, nationwide program to stimulate interest in physics. Dr. Kusch will give a public lecture on the role of science in our society and will meet with students and faculty members in a variety of discussion sessions. He will also address the introductory physics course.
Forty New Hampshire orphans were Thanksgiving guests of Dartmouth undergraduates at the Mt. Moosilauke Ravine Lodge last month. The program on November 28-29 was arranged by the Undergraduate Council, the Dartmouth Outing Club and Dartmouth alumni groups in Manchester and Tilton. The young guests were from the Manchester Children's Home, St. Peter's Orphanage in Manchester, and the Golden Rule Farm in Tilton. They arrived at the Ravine Lodge on Thanksgiving morning, engaged in outdoor activities, had a turkey dinner, followed by an evening of singing and entertainment, and after staying overnight returned to their homes the following day. The party was financed by the Campus Chest Fund.
Jim McFate, manager of the Hanover Inn, is not averse to having the word get around that the Inn now has TWX service for the benefit of alumni and others. This will enable alumni who might otherwise phone or wire to get in direct touch with the Inn through the leased Teletypewriter service of the Telephone Company and to receive an immediate confirmation. The Inn's TWX number is HANOVER 283U.
