TRUSTEES SANCTION A FOURTH TERM

Dartmouth’s first summer term, announced for 1963, will bring differences in sight and sound to the campus, but the experience and expectations in the classroom will be the same as in other terms. Male or female, Dartmouth green or Wellesley blue, the fourth-term student will find the quality of the courses in the Dartmouth tradition and the work as exacting in July as in January.

But there will be differences on campus. Baker Library’s bells, normally limited to tolling the hour in the quiet months, will be ringing out the call to class. Tourist voices will no longer echo in the solemn cavern of the Reserve Room, for the tables will be piled high with books and the owners will be studying, or shuffling about, or sleeping, or staring at the artistry of the Orozco murals.

The greatest difference, or at least the one most talked about at first, will be the co-educational aspect of the summer term. Although the possible enrollment is difficult to estimate, Dr. Waldo Chamberlin, dean of summer programs, believes that the 1963 enrollment may reach 1,000 students, half of them women.

The plans to initiate the fourth academic term in the summer of 1963 were formally approved by the Board of Trustees in June. Consideration of the program first began in 1958 when the present three-course, three-term curric- ulum was inaugurated.

Designed primarily for qualified undergraduates from Dartmouth and other schools, the summer curriculum of more than fifty courses has been selected from those regu- larly given at the College. Visiting scholars will join with members of the Dartmouth faculty in teaching these courses. The Dartmouth faculty members, however, will not teach the full four terms more often than every third or fourth year.

Admission to the summer term will be selective and is open to graduates or undergraduates who have successfully completed one term of college work. Some 400 to 500 Dartmouth students now attend summer sessions at other institutions, and it is expected many may wish to sample a Hanover summer. If they do so they will find Dartmouth s regular standards maintained despite temptations of sun, lake, and mountain. But this should be no surprise. The Dartmouth student has long since learned that the special values of the north country are added education and not meant as a substitute for applied study.

Most summer-term students will take only two courses over the eight-week period, July 1 to August 23, but the classes will meet five to six times each week instead of the four to five times under the regular lOVit-week terms. This schedule is designed for concentrated study, yet allows opportunity for independent work.

The College’s summer dean says the Dartmouth fourth term provides many advantages for qualified students. The term will give the student whose course selections are limited by specialized study the opportunity to enrich his liberal arts background. The engineering student, for instance, may wish to elect humanities or social science courses.

For the exceptionally well-qualified individual, there is the opportunity to accelerate. Conceivably, a student could complete the requirements for a degree in three years by attending summer sessions and taking one extra or fourth course one term each year. For some students looking ahead to extended graduate work, this possibility should be appealing, Dean Chamberlin believes.

For students at other institutions Dartmouth’s fourth term is a means to fulfilling special requirements not offered at their schools or courses that might present scheduling difficulties. This would also allow the student with travel plans during the academic year to benefit from his trip and still keep pace with his class.

For the qualified secondary school teacher, Dean Chamberlin believes the summer term would be a stimulat- ing way to increase his or her competence through subject matter courses.

But the benefits of the new program do not accrue to the student alone, for there are fundamental reasons for Dartmouth’s new venture into the fourth term. First and foremost, the summer term is one way in which the College can meet an educational obligation to make the Dartmouth experience available to as many qualified indi- viduals as possible, and yet stay within the guidelines for size and scope of program set by the Trustees through their planning committees.

There is also, of course, the practical obligation to make better and more effective use of the Dartmouth facilities and plant. The Library and the Hopkins Center, for instance, are exciting facilities for educational experi- ences regardless of the month of year. The added summer term will put the College on a virtual year-round operation.

On the academic side there is the great opportunity for Dartmouth to experiment with new programs and new procedures to improve the quality of higher education. Such experimentation is necessary and can be tried in the summer with less likelihood of undesirably upsetting normal patterns.

A notice of the Dartmouth Summer Term, with informa- tion on courses and programs as summarized below, will be mailed this month to educators and institutions across the country as the first step in the enrollment program.

Dartmouth alumni can assist by interesting qualified college undergraduates or graduates, male or female, in the Dartmouth summer program.

A Preview of the Summer Term

The formal announcement of course listings and other in- formation on the College’s fourth (summer) term will be released in late October. With the cooperation of Dr. Waldo Chamberlin, dean of summer programs, the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine is able to make this preview and request for further information available now.

Courses

The College plans to offer courses for undergraduate credit in the following departments: Anthropology, Art, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, English, Geog- raphy, German, Government, History, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Romance Languages, Russian Civilization, Sociology, and Air, Military, and Naval Sciences. Graduate courses will be offered in most of the departments listed above. Most courses in Art, Music, and English (drama) will use the modern facilities of the Hopkins Center.

Admission

Men and women undergraduates in good standing who have satisfactorily completed one term of college work may apply for admission. Each application must be accom- panied by a transcript of the student’s record, to be sup- plied by the registrar of the college or university last at- tended. Admission will be approved only after evaluation of the transcript by the dean of summer programs at Dart- mouth.

Credit

Each course gives to Dartmouth students the same credit as any other course taken during any of the other three terms. A Dartmouth course is the equivalent of a three-point (three-hour) semester course in a college that operates on a two-term academic year. No credit will be given towards a Dartmouth degree except to students who have been otherwise admitted as degree candidates at Dartmouth. Graduate credit may be given to holders of bachelor degrees, or the equivalents thereof, for courses specified as graduate-level courses.

Tuition and Fees

Registration, due at time of application $ 15 (non-refundable) Tuition: first course, including health fee $l4O second course $l2O third course (by special permission only) $l2O Room and Board $250

Dormitories and Dining Hal!

All students will live in the College dormitories and take their meals in the Thayer Dining Hall, unless their families are bona fide residents of the Hanover area. There is one dormitory rate and students will be assigned rooms in the order of completion of payment of tuition and board and room.

A bucolic studying scenelikely to be repeatedin the summer of 1963,only with coeds added.