Fourth Term Committee

PRESIDENT DICKEY last month appointed a special committee to develop detailed plans for a possible fourth term at Dartmouth during the summer. It is headed by Prof. Arthur E. Jensen, Dean of the Faculty, and includes both faculty members and administrative officers of the College.

Earlier this year the Committee on Educational Policy backed a fourth term as both realistic and desirable, and the faculty as a whole unanimously approved the idea "in principle," with the recommendation that the CEP study it further and present a detailed plan that the faculty could more definitely act upon, pro or con.

If Dartmouth does add a fourth term, the earliest starting date mentioned is the summer of 1961, and it might take until 1962 to get ready for it. It has been proposed that the term be open to female as well as male students from other colleges, that a minimum enrollment of 1,000 be assured to make the term economically sound, and, most important of all, that the term be not just another "summer school" but a regular term offering a relatively full curriculum geared to undergraduate needs.

Serving with Dean Jensen on the general study committee are Professors William W. Ballard '28, Douglas M. Bowen, Francis W. Gramlich, Lawrence G. Hines, Henry L. Terrie, and John H. Wolfenden; Dean Thaddeus Seymour; Richard W. Morin '24, librarian; Mason I. Ingram '29, bursar; George H. Colton '35, director of development; and Robert K. Hage '55, assistant director of admissions and director of financial aid.

Five sub-committees and their chairmen are: Curriculum, Professor Gramlich; Faculty, Professor Wolfenden; College and Community Facilities, Mr. Ingram; Campus Life, Dean Seymour; Admissions and Financial Aid, Mr. Hage. Some twenty others, from the faculty, administration and Hanover community, are serving on the sub-committees.