In Brief . . .
SOME thirty members of the Dartmouth Glee Club will have a novel summer job. They will be part of the stage show at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City for the duration of the run of the movie, The Nun's Story. No exact starting date has been set, but their choral performances are expected to begin the latter part of June and to continue for possibly eight weeks. The Dartmouth group will take part in four stage shows each day. Prof. Paul Zeller, director, will be with the Glee Club in New York but he probably will not be a stage performer.
A new interdepartmental major in Mathematics and Social Sciences will be instituted at Dartmouth next year. Its primary aim is to give qualified students a background for graduate work in certain areas of the social sciences where mathematics is employed. Prof. Thomas J. Finn of the Economics Department will be chairman of the major, and others teaching it will be Prof. John G. Kemeny of the Mathematics Department, Prof. Joseph Berger of the Sociology Department, and Prof. Edward J. Green of the Psychology Department. The major will require four math courses, four courses in either economics, sociology or psychology, and four other courses approved by the directing committee.
The .Barrett Cup winner in the Class of 1959 is David Scott Palmer of Melrose, Mass., best known to the alumni as a star end on Dartmouth's football team. The award, by vote of the three upper classes, was made at the traditional Wet Down ceremonies on the campus May 7. It goes each year to the member of the graduating class who, in the eyes of his fellow students, is most likely to become a factor in the outside world.
President Dickey announced last month that Dartmouth College has received a grant of $9,000 from the Smith Kline and French Foundation of Philadelphia to be used over a three-year period to provide improved study and research facilities for the Teaching Fellow Program in the Department of Chemistry. The enlargement and renovation of Steele Hall, now under way with funds from the Capital Gifts Campaign, will make possible a larger Teaching Fellow Program as well as improvements in all the laboratories used for student work. The Foundation which made the grant was established by the Smith Kline and French Laboratories to support educational and scientific work.
A new "Day at Dartmouth" program was held at the College on May 14 for about eighty high school juniors from thirty New Hampshire and Vermont schools. Designed to show prospective college students the educational opportunities open to them in liberal arts colleges like Dartmouth, the day's program included guided tours of the campus, talks by faculty members from the various academic divisions, visits with individual professors, a discussion of the admissions process, and a functional tour of Baker Library. Green Key Society had a leading part in Dartmouth's playing host to the students and some thirty school pricipals, guidance officers, and teachers who accompanied the high school boys.
