What’s New?

What caught the attention of students more than anything else when they returned was the state of near-completion reached by Hopkins Center over the summer. Interior finishing is about all that remains to be done before the grand opening in November (see Page 22 for more details about this). The Nervi- designed field house on Memorial Field was almost fully roofed over with its unusual precast concrete units; the west wing of the gym, with its new basketball court and seats for 2200, was ready to accommodate Convocation; and around the Medical School the Kellogg Audi- torium was nearing completion, the new dorm, Strasenburgh Hall, was coming along, and the foundations were in for the Dana Biomedical Library. Yet to come at the burgeoning Gilman Bio- Medical Center is the Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory housing the College’s Department of Biological Sci- ences.

Hopkins Center acquired its first oc- cupants in mid-September when the Music Department moved out of Bartlett Hall and Hallgarten, with no visible tears of regret, and took over the south unit of the Center. This unit, with its entrance on Lebanon Street, was the first one finished. The Great Issues Course hoped to get into Spaulding Auditorium by October 1, and throughout this month others will move in here and there as the interior work is completed.

Fifty-three new faculty members were on hand for the opening of the college year, and noteworthy among all the stu- dents filling the town were twelve gradu- ate students in mathematics and five in molecular biology who are candidates for the Ph.D. degree. The doctoral programs being introduced this fall are the first of any real significance since the Trustees sanctioned the degree 67 years ago.

To begin the new college year Han- over even had one-way, counterclockwise traffic around the campus. To be installed soon are traffic lights at the Hanover Inn corner, the bank corner, and the inter- section of East Wheelock and Park Streets, where students and faculty wives who have been ignoring the stop sign will be foiled at last.