COMMENCEMENT

THE end of the undergraduate road was reached by 587 Dartmouth seniors at the Commencement and Baccalaureate exercises on Sunday morning, June 11. For the great majority of these men the A.B. degree conferred by President Dickey was the stepping stone to graduate study next year that will take them to all parts of the world.

The Commencement Weekend was the usual kaleidoscope of color, pomp and ceremony, trumpeters, concerts, movies, receptions, Old Guard alumni, relaxed family gatherings, and youthful gaiety. The weather had to assert itself, as it usually does for any special weekend in Hanover, but after a torrential downpour on Saturday morning the skies cleared and, except for a passing threat on Sunday morning, stayed that way.

At the final exercises on Baker Library's south lawn President Dickey conferred eight honorary degrees, as well as thirteen Master of Arts degrees, twenty-three Bachelor of Medical Science degrees, and twenty-one Master of Science degrees in engineering or engineering and business.

Jean Monnet, the French statesman who has led the postwar effort to create a unified Western Europe, received Dartmouth's honorary Doctorate of Laws and delivered the Commencement Address, which is printed in full in this issue. His call for not only a united Europe but also a real Atlantic Community, in which the United States would share common institutions with its Western allies, was one of the most important speeches ever given before a Dartmouth gathering and was a front-page story in the next morning's New York Times.

Among the others awarded honorary degrees were four graduates of the College: Kent Hale Smith '15, LL.D.; Prof. Frank Henry Westheimer '32 of Harvard, Sc.D.; Professor Emeritus Francis Lane Childs '06, L.H.D.; and James Francis Malley 'll, M.A. Honorary-degree citations appear on Pages 18 and 19. Texts of all the principal Commencement addresses are printed in full in this issue, and on these first few pages pictures rather than words record some of the weekend's highlights.

A downpour on Saturday was a temporary dampener and forced the ROTCcommissioning ceremony indoors. Theyoung lady escorted by a new Ensignvalued her shoes more than her hose.

On their way to Class Day in the Bema seniors saluted retiring teachers. On theDartmouth Hall steps (l to r) are Dean Seymour (hidden), Professors BenfieldPressey, Artemas Packard, John Stearns '16, Albert Demaree, and Ross McKenney, woodcraft adviser of the Outing Club. This tradition began last year.

Class Day scavenger hunt after seniorsbroke their clay pipes on the Old Pine.

The Band gave two evening concerts andled the academic procession on Sunday.

Two of the senior class marshals, Oakley Winters and David Blake, listen toClass Day speeches in the Bema, Friday.

The Commencement Dance in College Hall closed the first day's festivities.

After a shaky start Sunday produced a beautiful morning for the graduation exercises.

Members of the fifty-year class of 1911at Middle Mass scan the sky for a breakin the clouds. The sun finally obliged.

Dartmouth faculty members at Sunday morning's graduation exercises.

The senior procession from the Gym to Baker Library passes the Hopkins Center at the southeast corner of the campus.