Would you as an alumnus

WOULD you as an alumnus like to sit in on a bull session of Dartmouth seniors, about to graduate, and listen to what they have on their minds about the College, their postgraduate hopes, and the state of the world? Assuming that you definitely would, we got together nine '6l men for an evening late in April and turned them loose with a tape-recorder to catch their views. What was expected to be a session of about two hours went on for more than four hours. Except for a planned beginning, to get the discussion going, the talk was entirely informal and followed its own spontaneous line. The excerpts printed here are only a portion of the whole, but we have allotted additional space to this feature and in making selections we have tried to preserve the meat of the discussion and to omit no important topic.

The nine seniors involved (see page 23 for more about them) were chosen as men of both academic and extracurricular ability, known to be thoughtful, responsible, concerned, and articulate. They are a distinctive group and, without wrestling with the question of what they represent, it is most accurate perhaps to say that they represent themselves and speak for themselves — something which, in this day of sweeping generalizations, the college student ought to get more chance to do. We doubt that all the views stated will get by without debate, but with a senior group of this caliber the opinions and attitudes disclosed should have a special interest and considerable weight.