In Brief...
President Dickey will be the guest speaker at three annual alumni club dinners in mid-March and at another in early April. This schedule will take him to Baltimore on March 12, Wilmington, Del., on March 13, and Providence, R. I., on March 14. He will go to Worcester, Mass., on April 5.
Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, Dean of the Faculty, will visit nine alumni centers in the Far West in April. His dinner schedule includes San Diego, April 1; Los Angeles, the 3rd; San Francisco, the 5th; Portland, the 8th; Tacoma (luncheon), the 9th; Seattle, the 10th; Spokane, the 12th; Great Falls, Montana, the 13th; and MinneapolisSt. Paul, the 16th.
The annual Hanover Holiday, directed by Prof. Herbert W. Hill, will take place in Hanover during the four-day period of June 10 through 13. The Classes of 1926, 1927 and 1928, holding reunions the first part of that week, will contribute speakers, along with the faculty, for the first two days of the Holiday. The 25-Year Class of 1932 will have a prominent part in the final two days of the alumni college program. The full program will be ready for announcement in next month's issue.
The principal speakers at the fourth annual Political Affairs Conference at Dartmouth on March 8 and 9 will be Senator John Sherman Cooper (R) of Kentucky and Senator John J. Sparkman (D) of Alabama. The conference, sponsored by the Dartmouth Undergraduate Council, will have the general theme, "Perspectives in American Foreign Policy." About 200 student delegates will attend from Eastern colleges and universities. Gordon C. Bjork '57 of Seattle, Wash., Rhodes Scholar-elect, will be the conference chairman. In addition to addresses by Senators Cooper and Sparkman and student panel sessions, there will be a concluding banquet at which President Dickey will speak on "Looking Ahead."
The annual report of the Dartmouth College Library for 1955-56, prepared by Librarian Richard W. Morin '24, discloses that some 16,000 volumes were added during that year, bringing the year-end total to 754,000 volumes for all the College libraries. With shelf space a growing problem, Mr. Morin was happy to report that he had also been able to get rid of 2400 books. Acquisitions included nearly 10,000 other units, about half of which were maps, which now total 75,000 in Baker's ccolletction. The number of magazines and newspapers being currently received is 3150.
Circulation statistics cited by Mr. Morin showed that in nearly every category student use of books was on the increase and faculty withdrawals were slightly on the decline. Maybe this indicates that the faculty has long since reached the saturation point and that the students are now catching up. Less use of reserve books as a teaching practice has brought circulation in this department down to 116,000 from the high of 280,000 just before World War II. Book fines climb giddily, however, and Mr. Morin reported that Reserve Desk fines exceeded the total amount expended in 1955"56 for new reserve books.
The full Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, including two new members attending their first meeting, was photographed in Hanover on January 25. Seated (l to r): Albert Bradley '15, New York; Governor Lane Dwinell '28 of New Hampshire; President John Sloan Dickey '29: Harvey P. Hood 'lB, Boston; Beardsley Ruml '15, New York. Standing: Thomas B. Curtis '32, St. Louis; Charles J. Zimmerman 23, Hartford, Conn.; Dudley W. Orr '29, Concord, N. H.; John L. Sullivan '21, Manchester, N. H.; Orvil E. Dryfoos '34, New York; Dr. Ralph W. Hunter '31, Hanover; Lloyd D. Brace '25, Boston. Sullivan and Dryfoos were elected Trustees at the January meeting.
