Filene Lectures

THE Filene Lecture Series at Dartmouth College was inaugurated last month with three addresses by Prof. William Foote Whyte, director of the Social Science Research Center, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. Some major problems in human relations, new approaches to solving them, and the practical applications of human relations research were the topics covered in the series.

The new lecture series has been made possible by a grant from the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation of Boston. Professor Whyte's three addresses will later be published in book form.

The annual Filene Lectures will serve as an enlargement of Dartmouth's human relations program, now directed by Prof. George F. Theriault '33 of the Sociology Department. The program was started in 1953 and has a human relations laboratory in McNutt Hall, where group processes are analyzed by means of mirror windows, tape recordings and sound systems.

Another distinguished lecturer at the College last month was George B. Cressey, Professor of Geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, who opened the annual College Lecture Series with a talk on the land, the people and the problems of the Middle East. The next speaker in the series will be Charles F. Gallagher of die American Universities Field Staff, an expert on Africa, whose topic will be "Algeria - Africa's Powder Keg."

Also scheduled for the College Lecture Series, directed by Prof. Robert E. Huke '48, are Charles E. Wilson, former Secretary of Defense; Comdr. James F. Calvert, commanding officer of the atomic submarine Skate; and Clement Atlee, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, whose visit will be jointly sponsored by the Great Issues Course.