In Brief . . .

THE Great Issues Course this year is devoting each term to a major force in the modern world. The three topics are War and Peace, Science and Society, and The Emerging Nations. Guest lecturers this term dealing with the first topic are: James Phinney Baxter of the Council on Foreign Relations, former President of Williams College; S. L. A. Marshall, author and military analyst; Milton Katz, director of international legal studies at the Harvard Law School; Zbigniew K. Brzezinski of Columbia's Russian Institute, author of The SovietBloc; Herman Kahn, physicist, author of On Thermonuclear War; Prof. H. Stuart Hughes of Harvard, author of Contemporary Europe; Jerome H. Spingarn '35, Committee on Security Through Arms Control, National Planning Association; Arnold Wolfers, director of the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research; and Rabbi Robert Gordis, consultant to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.

In addition to guest lecturers in Great Issues, the College this term has played host to British novelist Anthony Powell; Dr. R. Paul Ramsey, Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton; The Rev. Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Dean of Boston

College Law School; Paul Fenimore Cooper, author and great-grandson of James Fenimore Cooper; Will Carter, British typographer and publisher; Carl G. Hempel, professor of philosophy at Princeton; and Norman Anthony St. John-Stevas, political correspondent for The Economist.

The Language Laboratory in Dartmouth Hall, while arranging the hourly schedules for elementary courses, decided that it would be advisable to keep free one loose booth. Naturally it was promptly named Clare.