In Brief . . .
A TEAM from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., was the winner of the eighth annual Varsity Invitational Debate Tournament sponsored in February by the Dartmouth Forensic Union. Some 76 teams from 53 colleges and universities took part in the tourney. The finals were held in the Hopkins Center Theater, followed by a banquet for all participants in Alumni Hall.
The teams debated "Resolved: That the Non-Communist Nations of the World Should Establish an Economic Community," and each team had to defend and oppose the resolution in alternate rounds. The Dartmouth "A" team, which had taken an early win over Holy Cross to stay undefeated in preliminary rounds, was eliminated by M.I.T. in a closely-contested quarter-final debate. The Dartmouth team finished fifth behind Holy Cross, Southwest Missouri, Georgetown, and Boston College.
The 362 fathers of freshmen received a dividend in college presidents at the annual Freshman Fathers Weekend in February. The Class of 1966 dads were treated to remarks by Louis T. Benezet '36, president of Colorado College and father of Joel '66, in addition to President Dickey's talk. Talks by other College officers, class visits, conferences with faculty advisers, and sports events all went into a busy weekend.
A conference on "The Future of the Arctic" was held at the College on February 23 under the joint sponsorship of the Dartmouth Geographical Society and the Franklin Society of McGill University. Faculty and students from both schools participated, and visiting arctic specialists who took part included Cmdr. George P. Steele, USN, former commanding officer of the atomic submarine Sea Dragon; Capt. David C. Nutt '41, USNR, former chairman of the board of governors, Arctic Institute of North America; and Malcolm Mellor, of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratories.
A painting of Daniel Webster arguing the Dartmouth College Case before the U.S. Supreme Court, painted for Dartmouth at the request of the late Col. Henry N. Teague 'OO through a provision in his will, has been hung in the main dining room of Thayer Hall. Robert Burns, an artist residing in Princeton, N. J., was commissioned by the College to do the painting.
The Dartmouth Foreign Study Plan will expand this year to include work in Russian studies. It will be held in the summer and fall of 1963 and will consist of a six-week course in Munich, Germany, under the auspices of the University of Oklahoma, a three- to four-week tour of the Soviet Union, and two months of study and research at the Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R. in Munich.
