A Full Calendar

The second semester opened February 11, after a two-week change of pace provided by final exams and Winter Carnival, and with a sort of pent-up rush things began happening at once. A string of visiting and faculty lecturers, musical events, meetings, films, plays and debates filled the College Calendar, which also had to find space for listing 24 varsity and freshman athletic contests during the remainder of the month.

Prominent among the visiting speakers was Dr. Hendrik Kraemer of Holland, visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary and a famous lay theologian, who gave a Tucker Foundation lecture. On the same day, February 17, the Rev. Frederick M. Meek, pastor of Old South Church in Boston, was guest preacher at the fourth Union Service of the year, in Rollins Chapel.

Subjects covered by other visiting speakers ranged from glass as a new engineering material and chemical properties of isotopes to the Southern Snake-Handling Cult and exploring in Central and South America. Tahseen Basheer of Egypt's U.N. delegation came at the invitation of the Cosmopolitan Club to talk on the Middle East crisis.

Pete Seeger, with his banjo, guitar, recorder and sledge hammer, gave a concert of folk songs on the second evening of the semester. Later in the month, a program of sonatas was played by Gaston Elcus, violinist and associate artist in the Department of Music, and Prof. James Sykes, pianist; and the Dartmouth College Band gave a fulldress concert in Webster Hall. The Glee Club, in addition to preparing for its spring trip, was busy getting ready for the Hanover presentation, March 2, of G. F. Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt with the Smith Glee Club.

The annual Interfraternity Play Contest opened February 21, with the Betas and Tri-Kaps first to perform; and representatives from fifteen competing colleges and universities were in town the weekend of the 22nd and 23rd for the Varsity Invitational Debate Tournament. And while the College Band was filling Webster Hall with sound, all was quiet in 107 McNutt while the Chess Club matched wits with Deer field Academy players.