In Brief...
UNDER the new three-term, three-course program beginning next fall, requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree will change from the present 121 semester-hours' credit to the passing of 36 term courses, sixteen of them with the grade of C-plus or better. To compensate for the reduction of four courses in the new curriculum, qualified students will be allowed to take two extra term courses without charge. The Great Issues Course will change its present format and will meet twice a week throughout all three terms of the year, but will carry credit for only one term course. A higher per. centage of visiting lecturers is also pro. jected for the course.
The College has announced a slight increase of $15 a year for board next year. This raises the cost for freshmen to $417. and for other classes to $465. The increase is based on higher food and labor costs and also on the fact that the number of days the student is in Hanover has in. creased in the past few years.
Books in the College's libraries totaled 769,000 volumes at the end of the academic year 1956-57, Baker Library's annual report recently disclosed. This places Dartmouth in 32nd place in terms of book stock among the 112 Group I institutions in the Association of College and Research Libraries, in contrast to 20th place for Dartmouth ten years ago. Baker Library has retarded the rate of growth in its book stock by a vigorous program of discarding superfluous volumes, but it is still rapidly running out of stack space.
President Dickey will address a dinner meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Manchester, N. H., on May 12. Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain '36 and Coach Bob Blackman will meet with the Long Island alumni on May 15, and Coach Blackman will also speak at the Dartmouth Club in New York on May 14. Meeting with accepted candidates for the next freshman class, Prof. Herbert R. Sensenig '28 will be in Boston, May 11; Prof. Thaddeus Seymour in Philadelphia, May 18; and Dean Arthur Kiendl '44 in Northern New Jersey, May 18. Other College speakers in May are: Coach Alvin Julian, Washington, May 2, Providence, May 20, and New Haven, May 23; Prof. John P. Amsden '20, Springfield, Vt., May 7; Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Hartford, May 8; Prof. Sensenig,' Middleboro, Mass., May 12; Prof. George Z. Dimitroff, North Shore, Mass., May 14; Theodore Emery, Nashua, N. H., May 15; Prof. John B. Stearns '16, Five-Class Dinner, Boston, May 16; Frank Smallwood '51, Darien, Conn., May 21; and Prof. Allen R. Foley '20, Bridgeport, May 28.
Miss Jeanette Gill, manager of the Dartmouth Dining Association, who holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, is the only woman officer recently retained on the Inactive Status List, a roster of reserve officers whose military skill, urgently needed in time of national emergency, is being maintained so efficiently in civil life as not to require further training. Miss Gill was stationed at headquarters in Washington during the war and was in charge of feeding Marine Corps personnel.
