Miscellany
DARTMOUTH College's alumni support is near the top in all categories, it is disclosed in an American Alumni Council survey for 1960-61. Dartmouth alumni, with total giving of $4,388,641, ranked sixth in the nation, surpassed only by Yale, Harvard, Princeton, M.I.T., and Stanford. Among major institutions, Dartmouth was third in alumni fund participation with 68.8%, compared with Mt. Holyoke's 75.1% and Princeton's 70.7%. Dartmouth was ninth in total number of alumni donors (19,022) and in the number of alumni fund contributors (18,858), despite the much larger alumni bodies of the institutions in its category. The AAC reported a record high in alumni support of higher education in 1960-61; its survey of 927 colleges and universities reported $196 million contributed by 1,739,000 alumni.
Two large academic gatherings in Hanover last month brought 400 members of the American Society for Engineering Education to town on October 12-13 and some 200 members of the American Mathematical Society to town on October 27. Early this month, November 2-3, a regional meeting of the American College of Physicians will be attended by approximately 150 members.
Dartmouth's 1962-63 concert series opens in Webster Hall on December 4 with "Rapsodia Romina," presented by the Roumanian National Folk Ensemble and the Barbu Lautaru Orchestra from Bucharest, making their first tour of this country. Four succeeding concerts will be given by the NDR Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg on January 10, the Lucerne Festival of Strings on February 14, pianist Gary Graffman on March 5, and Metropolitan Opera soprano Anna Moffo on April 23.
Visitors to the Orozco Frescoes in Baker Library can now hear a taperecorded description of the paintings while looking at them. Two listening posts, each with four telephone-type outlets, are in operation. By picking up one of the handsets and pressing a button the visitor can activate the transmitter. The text of the recording is based on writings of the late Prof. Artemas Packard of the Art Department.
Elsewhere in Dartmouth's world of machines, this sign is tacked above a Math Department computer: "ACHTUNG! Alles Lookenspeepers: Das computenmachine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittenbraggen. Is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen, und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Is nicht fur gewerken by das dumkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets, relaxen, and watchen das blinkenlights."
