In Brief . . .
THE weekly CBS-TV "Sports Spectacular" that carried Dartmouth Winter Carnival on a nation-wide telecast Sunday, February 7, will do another program involving Dartmouth on Sunday, April 10. On that afternoon it will present a Rugby match played in Army's Michie Stadium between the Dartmouth Rugby Club and a combined Oxford-Cambridge team from England. The Big Green was the choice of the Eastern Rugby Union as the team most likely to give the Britishers some real competition. Dartmouth will get into trim for this major test by going to California during the spring recess and there playing California (March 19), St. Mary's (March 24) and Stanford (March 29), in addition to competing in a tournament at Monterey, March 27-28.
The Dartmouth College Physics Department has received a $6,000 grant to buy new laboratory equipment for use by students in nuclear-physics experiments. The Office of Isotopes Development of the Atomic" Energy Commission made the funds available for electronic equipment that will aid in experiments, including the study of induced radioactivity produced with the Department's ion accelerator.
The AEC said its program recognizes that "the full potential of industrial radioisotope applications ... depends on a reservoir of scientists and engineers trained in many facets of radiation application. ... A long-range, but no less important, objective of the program is to stimulate radioisotope technology training at the academic level through the existing physical-science disciplines."
The annual report of Librarian Richard W. Morin '24 for 1958-59 discloses that the first year of the three-term, three- course (independent learning) curriculum produced a 17% increase in book loans to students at the main circulation desk of Baker Library. Total circulation in all divisions of the library went up less strikingly, by 11.5%, but was still well ahead of the previous year's record jump of 9%. Of total circulation, exclusive of the reserve-book desk, 54% was for students, 25% for the faculty, and 21% for non- College users. The last is a growing burden from which the library is seeking relief while still doing its part in the Upper Valley community.
The annual Freshman Fathers Weekend, held February 19 and 20, had a record attendance of 400 fathers of '63 men. This was all the more remarkable because of the blizzard that made it difficult to get to Hanover. Once here, the fathers followed the regular daily pattern of student life and with their sons were guests of the College at a dinner at which President Dickey and Dean Dickerson spoke. Ross McKenney of the DOC told some of his tall tales at an informal Saturday night smoker.
John Kennedy, the Democratic Presidential candidate, was less successful than the '63 fathers in getting through to Hanover on Friday, the 19th. His scheduled appearance in Webster Hall was called off, with the promise that he would visit Hanover later in his campaign swing through New Hampshire.
The contract for constructing the U. S. Army Engineers' Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover has been awarded to the C. W. Regan Company of New York. Work on the 83,225,000 facility, to be located off Lyme Road, is scheduled to begin this spring, with completion expected two years hence.
The Norwich railroad station, point of embarkation for generations of Dartmouth men in past years, is no more. The Boston and Maine closed it to passenger service on December 1, and its use for freight will also end in the near future.
Preliminary to the Hopkins Center construction work that will begin as soon as the frostgoes out of the ground this spring, the contractor last month began driving nearly 800 pilesinto the site of the Center. A lengthy period of testing preceded this operation. This view,from Lebanon Street, shows the Hanover Inn at the left and, beyond, Baker Library andWebster Hall at the north end of the campus.
