In Brief . . .
THE faculty last month voted approval of the proposed Dartmouth Foreign Study Plan which will give language majors greater opportunity to study abroad. The plan, now awaiting Trustee approval, will allow juniors majoring in French, Spanish and German to spend the springterm of the new three-term year studying language abroad. They will receive full credit for their foreign study and tuition paid to the College will be remitted to them for use abroad. The Experiment in International Living will arrange for the housing of these students with European families, and there is to be an academic counselor at each of the universities chosen who will supervise and guide the study of the group.
Dartmouth's second annual Honors Convocation was held in Webster Hall on the morning of May 16, honoring 98 undergraduates for academic achievements. President Dickey presided and the address for the occasion was delivered by the Rev. James A. Pike, Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. A procession with faculty members in full academic regalia preceded the ceremonies. Undergraduates honored consisted of those who have won major fellowships and scholarships, Rufus Choate Scholars, members of Phi Beta Kappa, and freshmen who attained a 4.8 average in the first semester. Dartmouth this spring received two gifts for the encouragement of poetry. A fund of $500 from the Charles Butcher Foundation of Boston, to be known as the Charles Butcher Fund, will be used for poetry readings, lectures, prizes or in any other way contributing to interest in poetry. It will be administered by a special committee at the College. From the Academy of American Poets, of New York, the College has received funds for an annual $100 prize for the next five years. The English Department will present the prize to the student who creates the best poem or group of poems during the year.
President Dickey on May 21 delivered the first David McCahan Lecture as part of the International Insurance Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. He developed the thesis that Americans' great contribution to civilization is the ability to protect personal independence while simultaneously devoting themselves to mankind.
Forty savings bankers will be at Dartmouth for eight weeks this summer, July 2 to August 24, for a back-to-college, management development program, sponsored by the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks. Two liberal arts courses, dealing with the impact of government on the individual and of science on religion and philosophy, will be studied along with courses on credit management and the money market.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Management School will hold its second summer session at the College during the same eight-week period, and Tuck School once more will be host to the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management, for its eighth annual session, August 4 to 17. The latter will be preceded by a four-day seminar for alumni of the Graduate School. For one week, August 21 to 28, the New England Association of Math Teachers will hold an institute at Dartmouth, and the Vermont-New Hampshire Bankers School will again be held at Tuck School, September 9 to 12.
Last month, 33 educators from New England preparatory and high schools attended a two-day history curriculum conference at the College, May 18-19. Discussions centered around the place of history courses in education and the coordination of history curricula in secondary schools with those of college level. Dean Jensen and six members of the Dartmouth History Department took part in the program.
