THE COLLEGE
THOSE 832 spirited young men in green and white beanies who raced noisily back and forth across campus from rally to rally on each of their first four nights as Dartmouth men missed some splendid opportunities to assure '67's fame by only several weeks. There's one theory that it was all planned that way.
For instance, if the freshmen had been in town early in September they would have seen a sidewalk of new cement stretched from the College Hall corner beyond Parkhurst. But they weren't, and although there's more than one print of the Hanover hound corps, there's nary a '67 to be seen. The slightly-larger than expected Class of 1967 also missed the turtle-slow but fascinating business of moving Fairbanks Hall from behind the Library, across Main Street, behind Silsby and Crosby Halls, between Hitchcock and North Mass dorms, and finally to its new foundation and marriage with Sanborn Lane House near Thayer Hall.
After first contact with the newest Dartmouth class one wonders if the College didn't act too quickly in contracting for the moving of Fairbanks. Taking into account '67's better-than-ever-before College Board averages and pre-college achievements, the size of the class and its individual members (they must have been taking President Kennedy's Physical Fitness Program seriously), and the alltoo-apparent class spirit it's obvious that these young men will move mountains and Fairbanks Hall despite its size would have been no great challenge.
Despite such campus confidence in '67 the Business Manager's helpers were quite content to see Fairbanks safely shifted and the sidewalk safely solidified before '67 came to town. They must have figured they had enough to do without taking over the Interdormitory Council's job of putting the freshmen to work, for the Business Manager's staff has been as busy at summer renovating as the Hopkins Center staff was at summer creating; and that was plenty busy. McNutt Hall was remodeled in the basement for new quarters for the Registrar and the Tabulating Center, on the first floor for the Comptroller and Bursar, and on the second floor for the Admissions and Financial Aid Offices. Even while en route across campus Fairbanks was being remodeled within for Dartmouth Films and the Placement Office, and other work was going on simultaneously in College Hall to give the Tucker Foundation a new home, in Wentworth and Dartmouth Halls, and in a two-story addition to Crosby Hall.
There was also considerable progress on new facilities. The Charles A. Dana Biomedical Library received its finishing touches preparatory to full use this fall and formal dedication on October 11. Nearby the framework of the Charles Gilman Life Sciences Laboratory has reached several stories high and even in this skeletal state there is suggestion of the important place this building will take in the educational program of the College. Another nearby construction project also well underway is the addition to the Medical Science Building. Meanwhile back at Alumni Gym, Coach Karl Michael and his swimmers are filling their eyes with the glistening white and green wonder of the new Olympicsized pool and anxiously awaiting the day when it will be the pool that will be filled.
Lucky, lucky '67. They may have missed a sidewalk and a moving, but they have their green and white beanies now and, as any alumnus will tell you, four years of golden opportunities ahead.
